Jay Leno Quotes

Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.

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

I think Senator Marco Rubio was a very good speaker of the House, has been a very good senator.

I had dreams of high political office.

I've decided to get into active politics on Narendra Modiji's request. I don't know how successful I will be, but I'll give it my best shot.

I first decided to run for Congress when I was 29 - and became a Representative at the age of 30.

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.

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 was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.

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

It's interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.

People who know Paul Ryan say, 'He will be president one day.'

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

As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came easy to me because I'd learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them.

This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.

There's nothing in my background that would have said I was destined to be a senior politician.

First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician.

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

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

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

If you lose, you can't lead. If you don't lead, you're irrelevant. Winning is what it's all about in politics.

You can lead a man to Congress, but you cannot make him think.

The best, most interesting years of my life were spent in government and politics.