Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.

I feel like I could run for President. People often laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I could be in the White House.

I've heard it for years, if you're very successful you can't run for high office, especially for President.

When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frankly, I didn't think I was ready. I wasn't comfortable that I was prepared to do the job.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

I certainly never thought I would run for office myself. If someone had suggested it, I would have laughed out loud.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place.

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

No, I'm not running for office someday.

I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.

I will not ever run for political office. I can assure you.

I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.

In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.

I never believed that my service in the U.S. Congress should become a permanent career.

After a great deal of thought and discussions with my family, I have decided not to seek re-election in 2014. Politics shouldn't be a career, and I never intended to make it one.

In the heart of every legislator lurks a judicial candidate waiting his or her turn for election.

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.

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics, is still the greatest and most honorable adventure.

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

I hadn't really thought about politics as a career in my twenties or early thirties.

Washington was a swamp. It was not somewhere that they believed people would want to go, so the idea was that people got involved as a public service, not to make a career out of it.

It would be wonderful to be a member of the United States Senate.

As more time passes, people see my father for what he is - one of the last of a generation who went into government to answer a call to public service rather than to pursue a career in politics.

It used to be the custom in this country that when you had made a career and were mature in judgment, you went to the Senate to give something back t the Republic. The idea that at age 25 you go out and buy a blow dryer and starting running for office is not what the founders had in mind

The one thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee - they were farmers, professional men, businessmen giving of their time and effort to an idea that became a country - was a nation governed by professional politicians who had an interest in getting re-elected. They probably envisioned a fellow serving a couple of hitches and then eagerly looking forward to getting back to the farm.