Lincoln Diaz-Balart Quotes

I will leave the U.S. Congress when the term for which I was elected expires in January 2011 and return to the practice of law with a sense of duty fulfilled.

I represented the 4th District of South Carolina... from the election '92 until election '98. And then I was out six years and then came back for another six years between the election 2004 and the election 2010.

I have no intention of running for office again.

I will not seek reelection the United States Senate but will retire from public service in January 2013. There is no reason other than the fact than I think it's time.

I continued to serve in Congress until 2001.

There is a time for everything, also for my time in politics which has been long and eventful. Now I believe it is time for others to take the baton that was passed to me following the crash. I have therefore decided to leave political life at the end of this term.

I never believed that my service in the U.S. Congress should become a permanent career.

After a great deal of thought and discussions with my family, I have decided not to seek re-election in 2014. Politics shouldn't be a career, and I never intended to make it one.

Either you die in Congress or you get out before you are 60 so you can still do something else.

I never envisioned retiring out of the Congress.

There comes a time in any proud sportsman's career when you have to make the difficult decision to stop.

I always said, 'If it's over, it's over.' If modeling is over, it's still the best experience of my life.

I have made the very difficult decision to leave my position as head coach of the men's basketball team at Indiana University.

In any political job, you recognize that your time is going to be limited.

As I stated shortly after retiring from the U.S. Army and first pursuing a seat in Congress in 2010, I planned to self-impose term limits.

I am not a career politician, even though this is my 12th year in the United States House of Representatives.

Let's face it, when you're a striker and the coach is playing you at left-back you know your time is up.

The end of a career comes to us all, and there is not a lot you can do about that.

I think it is very good for the country, for the world, and especially for the Democrats that Harry Reid is retiring.

I never wanted to be one of those guys who hung on too long.

Being on 'Corrie' is the best job I've ever had; leaving is going to break my heart.

I will make the final decision on running for governor after my congressional term ends.

You're never prepared for the end of a career.

Southampton is my last job. I might have said it before, but this time, I really mean it.

I'm going to stop playing football after 22 years.