Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality.

You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they've sold their soul to the devil so many times and stomped the guts out of enough people that they are definitely not like you and me, not even close.

I just try to take the best opportunities that I can get.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

Normal people don't just wake up in the morning and say I think it'd be a good idea to run for president of the United States.

In politics, they play games. In Hollywood, they play games. I think that, overall, everybody is trying to do whatever it takes to get ahead.

Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

No, I haven’t given any thought to running for President. But my mother has thought about it.

I’m always amused by politicians running against Washington, when they desperately want to get to Washington.

When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.

I've always viewed politics the following way: if you do a good job at the job you're doing, you'll have opportunities to do other things in the future. Maybe things you never envisioned.

If I had to wait around for somebody to pick me for lieutenant governor, I never would have been picked.

I have no ambitions to become the PM.

I hope you find true meaning, contentment, and passion in your life. I hope you navigate the difficult times and come out with greater strength and resolve. I hope you find whatever balance you seek with your eyes wide open. And I hope that you - yes, you - have the ambition to lean in to your career and run the world. Because the world needs you to change it.

I'm offering myself up. I'm saying that if I have the background, the capability and the concern to do this and I'm doing this for the right reasons... but I'm not particularly interested in running for president, but I think I'd make a good president. Nowadays, the process has become much more important than I think it used to be.

In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.

There are many things I want, and the only way I will get them is to keep my head down, listen to the right people and work hard

I feel like I could run for President. People often laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I could be in the White House.

I'm not going to run for office. I don't think that's the right move for me.

I'm thinking about the people who I want to see running for President. And there's quite a group. I mean we have a very strong field of leaders who could become our nominee and - and could stand up for the kind of leadership I think America wants.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

I don't think I would be a good politician. I kid about it when I get a standing ovation. Sometimes I'll say, "I may run for Governor," but it's strictly a joke.

You don't deliberately submit people you love to something like that. I don't think I'd run again for vice-president. Next time I'd run for president.

Anybody who is an ambitious politician would never ever aspire to a Vice Presidency. And yet, people find themselves in that position, and so, therein lies the rub.