Joseph P. Kennedy III Quotes

I'm not running for the U.S. Senate because I think Lincoln Chafee is a bad man.

I haven't ruled out another run for office at some point.

While I am humbled by the widespread encouragement of so many and hold in the highest esteem those who serve us in federal office, I know that my head and my heart, my young family's future, and our unfinished work all remain firmly in the State of California - not Washington D.C. Therefore I will not seek election to the U.S. Senate in 2016.

I'm not into politics. I have received offers to enter politics, but I have not been tempted so far. I can't say about the future.

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'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.

I have no intention of running for office again.

People ask the question, 'If you're offered VP, would you take it?' No, I won't take it.

As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country.

I don't even want to be president!

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

I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office.

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

When I ran for governor, was I ambitious? Yes. Anyone, male or female, who goes through the trials of a campaign must be ambitious.

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

I am considering running for Senate, as well as other opportunities.

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.

I want to be prime minister.

I am not going to participate in professional politics again.

I actually think you should run for president if you're going to be president, if you want to be president. I'm not running for president. I made that decision, consciously, not to.

I ran for attorney general to be attorney general.

Would I consider a run for political office? Yes.

I'm very happy doing what I do. And if I were in the White House I would be really interested in continuing to do what I do, which is working… That's a very cold answer, I guess, but I was trying to answer in terms of ambition.

I knew I would work in a community that I would like to live in, but I had no idea that I would ever go into politics, even though some of my classmates thought I would.

I want to be the governor of Arkansas. I'm going to be the governor of Arkansas. I might be president, but I will be the governor of Arkansas.