Mike Pence Quotes

Rock stars generally don't last in the Senate, starting with John Kennedy. Too much work, too slow, too little juice. Getting something accomplished takes a remarkable amount of tedious work. Rock stars who become senators either run for something else or retire on the job. They certainly don't make a mark.

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.

I was a very, very good congressman.

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.

It is a great privilege for any man to become a member of the Senate.

Politics, I believe, is a full-time occupation.

Being a politician is a calling second only to being a minister.

My mother once used to be a Congress leader.

I love working for the people of Indiana. I love helping our citizens make the most of their lives, but I do not love Congress.

I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don't really have the personality for that.

My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics.

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

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.

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

I happened to have the privilege of serving in Congress. It will be 16 years at the end of this term. And I think I made a difference here on important issues.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

It has been a tremendous privilege to serve the people of Utah during my time in the United States House of Representatives, but my time in the House should not be the sum total of my service.

I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.

Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.

It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings.

I've been in Parliament since 1983, and I've been involved in many issues over the time.