Chris Matthews Quotes

I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness.

I know I'd be an absolutely horrendous politician.

You don’t become a statesman unless you are first a good politician.

I never thought I would run for Congress. If you look back at a certain reality TV show, you know that.

I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.

Ralph Reed is deeply ambitious and always was so. There was a time when he... in one of my interviews, he said he pondered running the Ross Perot campaign, and he wasn't sure he wanted to do the Christian Right thing; he was worried that it boxed him into a corner.

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

It doesn’t matter, this young man will never go far in politics.

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

Poor Rahul Gandhi doesn't know the ABCD of Karnataka politics.

I first decided to run for Congress when I was 29 - and became a Representative at the age of 30.

You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.

And then there's this guy, Barack Obama, who lost - I could take up a whole afternoon talking about his failures, but - he lost his first race for Congress, and now he gets to call himself my husband.

A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.

I am not a professional politician.

I'm only sort of a politician.

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

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

I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office.

I have no plans to run for president.

Politics at bottom is not all that complicated. It's all about timing.

Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.