Jeri Ryan Quotes

After thinking carefully about how I can best help my fellow Minnesotans, I have decided to not seek election for a different office in 2014. The warm encouragement from many people to run for U.S. senator or the governorship was deeply humbling.

I'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession.

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.

Would I consider a run for political office? Yes.

I think Senator Marco Rubio was a very good speaker of the House, has been a very good senator.

I don't want to be the mayor of New Jersey.

I never thought I would run for office.

I was also a congressman. I had decided to run for office and had become a congressman with Queen Latifah.

In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You can't be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.

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

I'm not going to run for political office.

My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.

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

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

No high qualities of statesmanship are expected from a Congressman.

A Senate seat is a terrible thing to waste.

Hillary had never run for office before, but she decided to give it a try. She began her campaign the way she always does new things, by listening and and learning. And after a tough battle, New York elected her to the seat once held by another outsider, Robert Kennedy.

I called the book 'The Senator Next Door,' not 'The President Next Door.'

I'm doing a good job in Washington.

I'm thinking of trying to talk Jonathan Toews into running for Congress. We could use him.

I have been a civil servant and a politician for over 30 years.

I don't think I would run for president.

I definitely envision myself in politics at some point.

I am joining politics for sure.

Since young age, I am in politics.