Carlos Lopez-Cantera Quotes

I have been a civil servant and a politician for over 30 years.

I think politics is definitely something that I've always thought about as a career.

No matter what the issue is, conservative principles are always better for people than big-government, liberal principles.

I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don't really have the personality for that.

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

I don't have to be in politics.

I think I went into poli-sci because I knew there was a stage, plus I thought I wanted to help people, and I realized in poli-sci that if you want to be a politician you're either born into it, or you've got an amazing brain, which those are rare - and I don't have one.

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.

I had no intention of getting back into politics. I was teaching at Bowdoin and happily retired from politics.

I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn't enjoy my work.

I'm not involved in politics, and I've never had any political role. I've never been in office. I've never taken any public administrative jobs.

There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government.

I have had a career in public service.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.

Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

I can honestly say that being a United States Senator has been the honor of my life.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.

I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.

The best, most interesting years of my life were spent in government and politics.