Leadership Desire Quotes

To want to become the President is, I think, such a bizarre ambition that it is automatically deranging.

I've never encountered someone in public life who has less desire to hold office than Michelle Obama, though she is incredibly gifted at retail politics.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

[Hillary Clinton] really wants to be president. She wanted to be president in '08. She's hardly left the spotlight.

Now, I'm back to my old ways: Needing to be the leader, needing to score.

My beloved Hillary, do not disappoint me. You have to be President, OK?

I was listening to the guy that represented me in the state Senate, and I just got really frustrated. I called my wife and said, 'I've always wanted to do something that makes a difference.' So I ended up running and won.

I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.

I confess that I desire to be reelected. God knows I do not want the labor and responsibility of the office for another four years. But I have the common pride and want my past four years of administration and endorsed.

No man knows, when the Presidential grub gets to gnawing at him, just how deep it will get until the has tried it.

Every senator I know would like to be President. The question is do they want to run to be President.

I really - as I said, I wanted to be President of the United States. It didn't turn out that way.

The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it, either. Government office should be received like a child’s Christmas present, with surprise and delight. Instead it is usually received like a diploma, an anticlimax that never seems worth the struggle to earn it.

Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.

I want to be dictator.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.