Christopher Buckley Quotes

The first day you're a leader is the beginning of the end of your political career.

I'm a man with a great political future behind me.

Among politicians, I would say Sonia Gandhi is not exactly a cartoonist's delight.

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Look what's happened to Barack Obama over the last two years or George Bush for eight. It's a blood sport. But at some point I may feel the need to run for office again.

If you lose, you can't lead. If you don't lead, you're irrelevant. Winning is what it's all about in politics.

I am hesitating about joining politics since I know the difficulties.

My mother once used to be a Congress leader.

I call him Governor Bush because that's the only political office he's ever held legally in this country. I don't care where they hang his portrait, I don't care how big his library is. To me, he'll always be "Governor Bush." I don't even capitalize his name when I type it anymore.

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

Politicians never fade away; they just keep carrying on, you know, their class.

I mean, I'm a political figure in Russia for more than 10 years... This is how people in Russia know me.

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

Seldom has a politician left public office with more self-generated fanfare than Sen. William S. Cohen.

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

I dreamed of being like Sam Seaborn on 'The West Wing'.

I had dreams of high political office.

The traditional path to making a name for yourself in our family is running for elective office, and I couldn't do that because, for one thing, all the really good offices were taken.

For me, the marriage of publishing and politics simply weaves together the two family businesses.

I have absolutely no political ambitions.

Politics is far more complex and difficult than other professions, as it involves takeover of your own personal life.

I want to become prime minister.

Politics is awful.

Life is not easy in politics.