Jacob Zuma Quotes

I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.

Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06.

Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting.

Maybe unlike a lot of people who join the SNP today, I never had any expectation of a political career.

I don't look in the mirror and see a president of the United States. I don't have that ambition.

I've always said I would never say never when it comes to politics.

I grew up in the '50s and '60s when Jack Kennedy was president. We would watch him on television. And our teachers always talked about the good things public servants could do. I thought maybe that's something I should do. So when I got out of law school, my wife, Jane, and I became precinct captains.

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.

There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afraid!' But, the truth is, I want to do things right, and sometimes I am afraid that I'm not good enough or that I'm not going to handle something right.

I'm only sort of a politician.

I have never wanted to be a politician, and I never had the desire until recently.

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

As good as I was at wrestling, I never thought I was any good.

Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.

I always thought of myself is a private-sector person. I was a reluctant candidate. I put in my time. Now it's somebody else's turn to take charge. But I am still very interested in politics.

I didn't set out with the notion of running for elective office; it sort of grew over time. And I honestly at times questioned if progressive change can be effected through elected office.

I'd always admired the intellectuals who had made the transition into politics - Mario Vargas Llosa in Peru, Vaclav Havel in the Czech Republic, Carlos Fuentes in Mexico - but I knew that many of them had failed, and in any event, I wasn't exactly in their league.

I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, 'I'm going to ace this.' It's just not who I am.

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

For someone like me who, as a kid, walked to school muttering little political speeches to myself, it was irresistible to finally get a chance at political life for real. When the people of Etobicoke-Lakeshore elected me their MP, it changed me forever.

I liked Nixon fine, but Nixon was not a partier.

Good ends can rarely be attained in politics without passion.

It was flattering to have high expectations, but I was never going to be President.

I think I'm ready to lead. I'm ready first to be a supportive vice president so that the presidency of Hillary Clinton is a fantastic one. But if something were to put that in my path, as much as any human being would be ready, I'd be ready. And you gotta approach it with humility.

I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.