Max Lucado Quotes

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.

I've always said I would never say never when it comes to politics.

I am joining politics for sure.

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 have never wanted to be a politician, and I never had the desire until recently.

I don't see myself in the political realm.

I always thought of myself is a private-sector person. I was a reluctant candidate. I put in my time. Now it's somebody else's turn to take charge. But I am still very interested in politics.

I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.

Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06.

I am not going to participate in professional politics again.

I am not with any political party. I laugh at media reports of my entering politics.

Maybe unlike a lot of people who join the SNP today, I never had any expectation of a political career.

I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.

I have no desire to run for public office.

I'll be honest: I haven't ruled politics out.

I never imagined in my life that I will fight elections or form a political party.

Of course I have had thoughts about going into politics.

I didn't think I was ever going to run for office.

Part of the great thing of looking back on how I went from the cattle ranch to the White House was, I was a country music DJ. I saw Garth Brooks perform for free in 1992 at the Colorado State Fair where I met this person who knew about this graduate school program.

After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, "You know, this guy is really ambitious, I think he wants to be Mayor of Chicago." That was the limit of my imagination.

I want to be Prime Minister, but I will stand for Mayor of London first.

Politics? Ha! You couldn't get into politics. You couldn't get in anywhere. You couldn't even get in the men's room at the Astor!

It was fascinating what a total interest he [John F. Kennedy] had in his tradecraft of being a politician. I didn't realize before that he was working on his memoirs all along, how he ran for Congress, that sort of thing.

My father always would say, "My daughter will go into politics? My daughter will become prime minister", but it's not what I wanted to do. I would say, "No, Papa, I will never go into politics." As I've said before, this is not the life I chose; it chose me ... But I accepted the responsibility and I've never wavered in my commitment.

I think it was interesting to be steeped in that [political] world.