Ike Barinholtz Quotes

Once you've been a mayor, you look to try to get things done.

I wanted to be a senator from Illinois. I was obsessed with politics. My dad was friends with a lot of local politicians, so I would hang out with them on Election Day and hand out buttons. Somehow, even though they were opposite, I loved Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. I thought they were the coolest guys!

Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?

At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

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.

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.

Of course I have had thoughts about going into politics.

I knew I always wanted to get involved in politics.

I definitely envision myself in politics at some point.

I am joining politics for sure.

Since young age, I am in politics.

I could really see myself in politics. Who knows?

I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don't really have the personality for that.

Politics was put in front of me. I do politics because it's the vehicle for change and because I happen to be good at it... I had this sort of calm fearlessness, that some would call foolishness.

Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business.

I think I went into poli-sci because I knew there was a stage, plus I thought I wanted to help people, and I realized in poli-sci that if you want to be a politician you're either born into it, or you've got an amazing brain, which those are rare - and I don't have one.

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

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.