Kim Young-sam Quotes

Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?

Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.

I didn't get to the Senate by accident.

My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition.

My God. What is there about this place [the White House] that a man should ever want to get into it?

You are the only man in history to every use the Presidency as a stepping stone to greatness.

Anybody having a chance to become President usually tries to do so.

I thought I'd be president of the United States.

I think I should be a president. President of the United States.

Serving as President of the United States is a privilege that is afforded to few in our country.

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

I don't even want to be president!

In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.

Yes! I have climbed to the top of that greasy pole.

My old friend Judge Johnson used to say, "The Presidency is unlike the Kingdom of Heaven—those who seek shall never find.

The social power of the Presidency is one of the most powerful tools a President can use.

I'd rather rule the world now than be prime minister.

I had dreams of high political office.

Who knows? Maybe someday I'll be living in the White House.

Nobody has a cakewalk to become governor.

Do I want to be premier? Yes, I do.

Yahya Khan wasn't interested in the government of the country, he was interested in power for its own sake and nothing else.

I won. I mean, I became president.

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

A President cannot always be popular.