Dorothy Bush Koch Quotes

Men in political life must be ambitious.

I could be like Joe Kennedy and say, 'My kids are going to run for president!'

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

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.

Life itself has so much politics, why should I make it my profession? I'm just a politician's son, not a politician myself. Two politicians, that's my dad and elder brother, in the family are enough. I'm happy doing my own stuff in Bollywood.

I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.

Ralph Reed is deeply ambitious and always was so. There was a time when he... in one of my interviews, he said he pondered running the Ross Perot campaign, and he wasn't sure he wanted to do the Christian Right thing; he was worried that it boxed him into a corner.

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

Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'

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

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

I was never in politics before I contested the Lok Sabha by-elections after my father's death.

I definitely envision myself in politics at some point.

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.

Our dad was just a congressman for 27 years, and if you live in Washington, D.C., everybody's dad works for the government. We grew up just like everyone else.

I could really see myself in politics. Who knows?

In 2009, my father wanted me to join politics. I told him, 'Why should I jump into the dirt and grime of politics when I can have politicians come to me as owner of a media group?' Then my father gave me an ultimatum.

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 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.

My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics.

There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.

I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.

Although I'd first seen Senator Hart in Aspen, Colorado, at a New Year's Day party in 1987, we hadn't talked.

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.

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