Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes

I don't want to become Washington.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings.

Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to become President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

Men in political life must be ambitious.

I am not joining politics. I don't intend to contest election. I am happy to be back to doing normal things, be it films or other work.

I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.

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.

Elective office and public service are obviously something that have long ties with my family, and something I'm definitely interested in.

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.

I have no intention of running for office again.

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

It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.

I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

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

I mean to retire from public life and spend all my time with you.

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

There are a lot of people who go to Washington or go to their state houses with a personal ambition in mind.

It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

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

What gets you out of bed in the morning? This is a question I'm often asked as a politician. It tends to be closely followed by a dozen other questions about what I'll do in 'x' scenario or whether I'll resign if 'y' happens.

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.

If I think of all the family members, I was probably the only one who was excited with the possibility of my dad's entering public office.

Even if I am paid in crores, I have no interest to venture to politics.