George B. Christian Jr. Quotes

I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.

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

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

It's like going into the Senate. You know, the first time you get there, you're all excited, 'My God, how did I ever get here?' Then, about six months later, you say, 'How the hell did the rest of them get here?'

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington.

There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.

Vice presidents are candidates for political castration.

Having a path to elected office was never the goal for me.

I have absolutely no political ambitions.

I want to become prime minister.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

I don't want to become Washington.

I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

It is a great privilege for any man to become a member of the Senate.

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.

Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

I didn't get to the Senate by accident.

I can honestly say that being a United States Senator has been the honor of my life.

Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings.

I've been complimented enough and asked to run for various offices out here in Utah, but right now, I'm not interested. I don't know that I have the stomach for it.

Every senator sees a president when he looks in the mirror each morning.

You don’t become a statesman unless you are first a good politician.

I would rather have a full term in the Senate—a place in which I would feel more consciously able to discharge the duties required, and where there is more chance to make a reputation, and less danger of losing it than four years of the presidency.