Pete Buttigieg Quotes

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.

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.

Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.

People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.

I like lots of career politicians; I'm not against all career politicians.

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

I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.

Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters.

Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.

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.

The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my mind going into politics. If I stayed in Washington, I might end up a government hack.

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

I have not yet met the politician who did not start to dream of the next highest office the minute that he was sworn in.

Men in political life must be ambitious.

A man’s got to walk if he is going to be in politics.

I have run across characters in my political career that have that singular focus of being someone, being in a position of power.

I have no desire to run for public office.

I definitely envision myself in politics at some point.

Not everyone who goes to Washington becomes Washington.

I could really see myself in politics. Who knows?

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

I wasn't one of those people who had some grand plan to become Prime Minister. I'm a normal person. When I was being foolish in my twenties, when I was at university, I wasn't thinking I was going to become an MP.

I am joining politics for sure.

Politics is very hard work. You have to really commit to things. Some people get into it for the wrong reasons.

My grandfather Prescott passed down the idea that you would only run for office after you had built a financial base - then it was time to give back and go into public service.