Olusegun Obasanjo Quotes

I have decided to resign totally and finally all official positions. I shall return to private life.

I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

I have no intention of running for office again.

It is never a perfect time or a right time to step aside. But for me, this is the time. I want to share with you my decision that I will not be a candidate for any office in November of 2014.

I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.

My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.

I don't want to go back into politics - absolutely not.

Public men rarely keep their promises to retire from public life.

I have to leave the government in the year 2012. I have to go.

Not many dictators announce their resignation, but I did because I didn't want to stay on and overstay my welcome.

Seldom has a politician left public office with more self-generated fanfare than Sen. William S. Cohen.

I was never let go from that company - it was my decision to leave WWE. I had enough.

Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch just announced that he is stepping down after three years. When asked if he's looking for a new job, he was like, 'Nah, just browsing.'

To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.

I am neither going to Bollywood nor joining politics.

I never envisioned retiring out of the Congress.

I may be leaving the Senate, but the next chapter in my public service is just beginning.

I've stood down as UKIP leader. I'm not responsible for these people anymore.

Netanyahu needs to leave Israel's political life.

I have absolutely no interest in running for president again. None. None. I mean, I know that's hard for some people to believe, but, you know, I just don't.

If I put wrestling boots and wrestling trunks on one last time - and I'm going to - it's going to be done by me and me only.

I am not joining politics. I don't intend to contest election. I am happy to be back to doing normal things, be it films or other work.

Washington was a swamp. It was not somewhere that they believed people would want to go, so the idea was that people got involved as a public service, not to make a career out of it.

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