J. Marshall Coleman Quotes

Professional politicians are busy looking out for their jobs. Send me to Congress so I can look out for your job.

To be elected to public office requires no qualifications.

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

When you nominate for a seat, the expectation is that you serve that district and serve that seat if you are elected.

What is the use of being elected or reelected unless you stand for something?

Fellow citizens, I offer myself as a candidate before you, for the office of governor. I do not pretend to be a man of extraordinary talents .... Nevertheless, I do think I can govern you pretty well. I do not think it will take a very smart man to govern you ... I do not think you will be very had to govern.

If elected, I shall consider the whole people of Sangamon my constituents, as well those that oppose as those that support me. While acting as their representative I shall be governed by their will on all subjects upon which I have the means of knowing what their will is.

Service is running for public office with the explicit and limited goal of serving your neighbors.

Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same running for president of the United States - that I could make a really big, positive difference.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

A public official must feel that he is a servant of the people. This is true of all public officials but perhaps in a special sense true of the Secretary of State, for our party lines stop at the water’s edge.

If you want to be a policy maker, run for office.

You don’t make any money in the White House—that’s for darn sure—but you can get things done….The most rewarding experience I have ever had was my three years in the White House.

No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

I need this job [Speaker of the House] like a hole in the head.

I'm not running again. I will say this: It was a great experience. I loved it.

I'm very happy where I am: I'm a senator from Ohio.

I thank the voters of Upstate N.Y. for this privilege to serve and pledge to continue to work tirelessly on their behalf in this final term.

I'd like to be a U.S. senator from Tennessee.

I am humbled by the opportunity to serve the people of West Tennessee, but I never intended to become a career politician.

When I chose to run for public office, I pledged to stand with the people of Nevada rather than follow a partisan line.

I'd like to run for president. Or Prime Minister. I think I could do a better job.

Today, I'm a candidate for the office of president of the United States of America. My kids can't believe I just said that.

When I get to Washington, the people of Florida are going to know I'm not going to spend my first year having fundraisers to pay off a campaign debt.

The campaign is over. It's time for the work of governing to begin.