William McKinley Quotes

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.

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

Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington.

It was flattering to have high expectations, but I was never going to be President.

The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.

I want to become prime minister.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

In ten years I will become president of the United States Of America.

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

I'm making this decision based on whether I believe in my heart that I'm ready to be president of the United States and that I want to be president of the United States right now.

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.

[Warren] Harding didn't like being a Senator; he liked being in the Senate.

Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to become President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

Men in political life must be ambitious.

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics, is still the greatest and most honorable adventure.

I think I'm ready to lead. I'm ready first to be a supportive vice president so that the presidency of Hillary Clinton is a fantastic one. But if something were to put that in my path, as much as any human being would be ready, I'd be ready. And you gotta approach it with humility.

More than Nixon or any other 20th-century president, Clinton has devoted his life to winning and keeping the presidency.

I really love being governor. I've been extremely successful.

I have absolutely no interest in running for president again. None. None. I mean, I know that's hard for some people to believe, but, you know, I just don't.

Having a path to elected office was never the goal for me.

I never criticized Modi. All I said was that Modi cannot be a chief minister and still nurse prime ministerial ambitions. I only suggested that he should resign as the chief minister and then stake his claim to be prime minister.

I've decided to get into active politics on Narendra Modiji's request. I don't know how successful I will be, but I'll give it my best shot.

I want to be a president and I will not change my thinking.