Nicola Sturgeon Quotes

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 terribly focused on whether I even could ever become the Leader of the Liberal Party or the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the future.

I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.

I had dreams of high political office.

I'm a man with a great political future behind me.

It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.

Rock stars generally don't last in the Senate, starting with John Kennedy. Too much work, too slow, too little juice. Getting something accomplished takes a remarkable amount of tedious work. Rock stars who become senators either run for something else or retire on the job. They certainly don't make a mark.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

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

When I was a young man, I used to dream maybe someday I could be an alderman. Instead of that I became an attorney general, a senator, a vice president, a Democratic nominee.

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

A lot of people don't know this about me but actually I started in politics.

I have absolutely no political ambitions.

I wasn't one of those people who had some grand plan to become Prime Minister. I'm a normal person. When I was being foolish in my twenties, when I was at university, I wasn't thinking I was going to become an MP.

Many have observed that Elizabeth Edwards could be a political figure in her own right. She has never had an interest in that.

I have certainly not got re-elected to retire, and I shall certainly start trying to push my influence in politics as far as I possibly can

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.

Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.

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.

I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

In ten years I will become president of the United States Of America.

I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president.

I don't have to be in politics.