Maria Shriver Quotes

I've gone from, you know, being too close to politicians, to being too close to entertainers, and people's father that I'm not.

I had the fixation that comes with being a Kennedy to be a great man on the big stage.

In the Hillary Clinton model, the wife chooses to support the straying husband while wearing a distressed and presumably pained expression in public. She stays in the marriage as a way to serve both her personal ambition as well as their shared ambition to achieve ever-greater positions of power and influence.

Patricia Nixon gave up a career to become a political wife. She rose to the pinnacle of glory and then fell to disgrace because of deeds over which she had neither control nor knowledge.

I wanted to prove that a son of a politician can be a successful businessman.

Politics are now nothing more than the means of rising in the world.

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

I could be like Joe Kennedy and say, 'My kids are going to run for president!'

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.

I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.

If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family.

I come from a family of bankers and lawyers, and they joked that they can't believe I'm the one that gets to go to the White House.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.

Once the Secretary of State invites you to lunch and asks your opinion, you’re sunk.

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

The traditional path to making a name for yourself in our family is running for elective office, and I couldn't do that because, for one thing, all the really good offices were taken.

I never call myself a Kennedy cousin. In fact, when I signed my contract with Bravo, I made it very clear that they were not allowed in promos to refer to me as a Kennedy cousin. I'm not that person. I don't feel it.

My family has always said... if you're going to get into politics, do it for the right reasons, not because you've got to carry on something.

The result of being a Kennedy is that I have extraordinary opportunities that I wouldn't otherwise have.

Tony Hadley is a big Conservative. He is desperate to become a Lord. He's jealous of me.

The thing about Pablo is that he wasn't happy with what he had - just being the sixth richest man in the world. He wanted to be loved. He wanted to be accepted. He wanted to be President of Colombia; he wanted his kids to go to the same school as the Colombian elite. But he wouldn't be accepted by the elite.

The label 'wife of the prime minister' is like a giant signboard pointing at my head from a Monty Python sketch. But I am not Mrs. Prime Minister. I'm a human being.

[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.

I think that Americans are very grateful to the Bush family for their public service.