Auberon Waugh Quotes

Even if I am paid in crores, I have no interest to venture to politics.

I'm not entering politics for name or fame.

One thing was very clear and I made it always very clear at the beginning when I got into the governorship, and that was that I wasn't trying to become a career politician. This was not like I was going to be governor for seven years and then I was going to run for the Senate and then for Congress. That was never my interest.

The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.

I hadn't really thought about politics as a career in my twenties or early thirties.

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

Washington was a swamp. It was not somewhere that they believed people would want to go, so the idea was that people got involved as a public service, not to make a career out of it.

I've decided to get into active politics on Narendra Modiji's request. I don't know how successful I will be, but I'll give it my best shot.

I have absolutely no political ambitions.

My father did not groom us for politics. I took the plunge because I wanted to carry on his work in his constituency.

Politics changes lives. You would expect me, as a politician, to say that. But I don't say it as a politician: I say it as someone whose own life was changed.

I didn't think I was ever going to run for office.

I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.

As more time passes, people see my father for what he is - one of the last of a generation who went into government to answer a call to public service rather than to pursue a career in politics.

The biggest challenge in my life was to stay determined about my decision to join BJP and make a mark for myself without any hurdles.

There have been a lot of crossover with celebrities and politics but to me, I don't think I would go into politics.

I am not cut out for politics. I don't even dream of joining politics.

I had several offers to act in films. But I rejected all of them and decided to plunge into politics.

I just didn't have the desire to run for political office. There are other things that I like to do, and it just wasn't my choice. But if it had been my choice, I certainly would have done it.

Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up.

I'm a very political person, and I make political choices in my movies.

Note the energy with which the media is going after Donald Trump Jr. And there's a reason. They want to dirty him up. They want to destroy the guy before he gets started on his own political career. He has an obvious interest in politics. He knows his stuff - and he can sell it and he can be persuasive with it - and he is the exact kind of conservative they want to destroy before he gets started.

I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives for national crime legislation, foreign policy issues.

Would I sacrifice a friendship to take a step forward in my political career? Thus far in my political career, I have been spared from having to make such a decision, thank God. And I can't imagine what it must be like.

Give me about 10 years, I'm going to run for President. If I can squeeze in an NBA championship before that, I'll do it.