Danny K. Davis Quotes

I loved being in the Senate. That was a wonderful experience.

It is a great privilege for any man to become a member of the Senate.

I'm blessed to represent Florida in the United States Senate.

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.

Congress is the great commanding theater of this nation, and the threshold to whatever department of office a man is qualified to enter.

I would rather have a full term in the Senate—a place in which I would feel more consciously able to discharge the duties required, and where there is more chance to make a reputation, and less danger of losing it than four years of the presidency.

I love serving in the government. I love serving in the Senate.

It's incredibly flattering to be a U.S. senator, which I want to stay at for a long time.

I actually became a lawyer because I thought you had to be a lawyer in order to get into national politics.

My childhood dream was to be prime minister.

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

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.

I could run for Congress. Why not? Good heavens, if Ronald Reagan can be president, I ought to make a great secretary of the treasury.

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

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

Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.

[Warren] Harding didn't like being a Senator; he liked being in the Senate.

There are two kinds of horses; there are show horses, and there are work horses, and you've got to decide in the United States Senate whether you want to be a show horse or a work horse.

Being a politician is a calling second only to being a minister.

Having a path to elected office was never the goal for me.

I want to become prime minister.

I mean getting into parliament was quite an achievement in itself and then I have to pinch myself at the thought of actually running a department.