Gavin Newsom Quotes

After thinking carefully about how I can best help my fellow Minnesotans, I have decided to not seek election for a different office in 2014. The warm encouragement from many people to run for U.S. senator or the governorship was deeply humbling.

I'm not running for the U.S. Senate because I think Lincoln Chafee is a bad man.

Somewhere down the road, if a Senate seat were to open, yeah, it's something I'd certainly take a look at. But that's got to be right in time for me and my family.

I ran for attorney general to be attorney general.

I have decided not to run for the U.S. Senate and instead continue my efforts to make California a better place to live, work, and raise a family. We have come a long way, but our work is not done, and neither am I.

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

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

Elective office and public service are obviously something that have long ties with my family, and something I'm definitely interested in.

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

When I ran for governor, was I ambitious? Yes. Anyone, male or female, who goes through the trials of a campaign must be ambitious.

Some day I shall be President.

I want to be a public servant, not a politician.

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.

I don't want to be the mayor of New Jersey.

I'd like to be a U.S. senator from Tennessee.

If I think of all the family members, I was probably the only one who was excited with the possibility of my dad's entering public office.

Society leaders have urged me to seek the presidency.

I never thought I would run for office.

I haven't ruled out another run for office at some point.

Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst.

I quitted my Seat in the House of Delegates, from a Conviction that I was no longer able to do any essential Service.

I was also a congressman. I had decided to run for office and had become a congressman with Queen Latifah.

I would never run for president.

I have absolutely no interest in running for president again.

I have said that I'm not running and I'm having a great time being pres — being a first-term senator.