Jonathan Powell Quotes

I will not ever run for political office. I can assure you.

Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06.

I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.

I started thinking about getting into politics when David Cameron became leader.

I've always said I would never say never when it comes to politics.

Many have observed that Elizabeth Edwards could be a political figure in her own right. She has never had an interest in that.

I love politics, love government, and I definitely want to stay involved. But I don't know if I'd ever want to run for office.

I'm not into politics. I have received offers to enter politics, but I have not been tempted so far. I can't say about the future.

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.

I have never wanted to be a politician, and I never had the desire until recently.

I don't see myself in the political realm.

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

No, I'm not running for office someday.

I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.

I'd always admired the intellectuals who had made the transition into politics - Mario Vargas Llosa in Peru, Vaclav Havel in the Czech Republic, Carlos Fuentes in Mexico - but I knew that many of them had failed, and in any event, I wasn't exactly in their league.

I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.

I like to be involved in politics. I like to be involved in government. I've been in politics all my life. I would like to remain in government. I don't think that's so sinister.

I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.

No one in my family had ever been in politics. My dad thought it was something that got in the way.

I'll be honest: I haven't ruled politics out.

A lot of people don't know this about me but actually I started in politics.

I was not born for politics.

I didn't get into politics to play a character on TV.

I'm not going to become an MP and I'm not going to be London Mayor. I have no political ambitions.

I have no political ambitions; never want to be an MP or MLA or a Rajya Sabha member.