Quotes About Ambition

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

Politics is a blood sport.

Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.

I think we should all focus on who we are, what we want to do, and do it. That is my way. I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.

Live like the Kennedy's, above the law.

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.

Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.

And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.

It's a tough world out there. You're going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees - and usually when you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

To get rich is glorious.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

They wanted me to be a Washington.

I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.

By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I like a challenge

Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road open for private enterprise and personal initiative.

In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.

Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.