Political Retirement Quotes

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.

When I left the Senate in January 2013, I decided to take a full year away from all media interviews, editorial articles, and direct political activities.

I cannot think in the present state of parties of entering again on the political arena. I would but waste my strength and exhaust my time, without adding to my character, or rendering service to the country, or advancing the cause for which I have so long contended…. I am content, and willing to end my publick life now. In looking back, I see nothing to regret, and little to correct. My interest in the prosperity of the country, and the success of our peculiar and sublime political system when well understood, remain without abatement, and will do so till my last breath; and I shall ever stand prepared to serve the country, whenever I shall see reasonable prospect of doing so.

I will leave the U.S. Congress when the term for which I was elected expires in January 2011 and return to the practice of law with a sense of duty fulfilled.

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

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

As I stated shortly after retiring from the U.S. Army and first pursuing a seat in Congress in 2010, I planned to self-impose term limits.

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.

Mitt Romney is not going to run for president. Mitt said it's time for fresh faces. So that's good news for Bruce Jenner.

As a rule, the most engaging political memoirs are written by those who are ending their political careers.

Enough is enough. Six years you serve the countries. You been working hard. You sacrifice your time even your life. And, even your family life. So it's, it's time for me to go back as a private citizen. And contribute to the Thai society outside political arena.

Well, there doesn't seem anything else for an ex-President to do but go into the country and raise big pumpkins.

Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country [i.e. Iran] after the fall of the current system [of the Shah].

A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.

Had not a conviction of the danger to which an unlimited occupation of the executive chair would expose the republican Constitution of our Government, made it conscientiously a duty to retire when I did, the fear of becoming a dotard and of being insensible of it, would of itself have resisted all solicitations to remain.

I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.

I had no intention of getting back into politics. I was teaching at Bowdoin and happily retired from politics.

After a great deal of thought and discussions with my family, I have decided not to seek re-election in 2014. Politics shouldn't be a career, and I never intended to make it one.

Today I am announcing that I will not seek a tenth term in the United States Congress this November.

I have no intention of running for office again.

It is a truth universally unacknowledged at Westminster that there is life after politics.

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

I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.

I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence.

There is a time for everything, also for my time in politics which has been long and eventful. Now I believe it is time for others to take the baton that was passed to me following the crash. I have therefore decided to leave political life at the end of this term.