Tom Latham Quotes

I have no intention of running for office again.

I will not seek reelection the United States Senate but will retire from public service in January 2013. There is no reason other than the fact than I think it's time.

I want to be Eric Cantor's term limit.

Once you're in the House for a few terms, it's hard to leave.

I represented the 4th District of South Carolina... from the election '92 until election '98. And then I was out six years and then came back for another six years between the election 2004 and the election 2010.

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.

When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.

Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.

I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure.

I came in with the intention of serving as long as it made sense for me to do so. The election was a natural moment to think about whether I wanted to stay longer, and I'm thrilled to turn the reins over to my longtime colleague Elisse Walter.

I have decided to resign totally and finally all official positions. I shall return to private life.

I'm not running again. I will say this: It was a great experience. I loved it.

Every year it's a decision whether you're going to run again.

I am very proud of my public record and the many accomplishments of my office. It has been a tremendous honor to represent the 6th District of Texas for over three decades, but now it is time to step aside and let there be a new voice.

I have to leave the government in the year 2012. I have to go.

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.

It's one of those things: I'm never gonna get over not fighting, I don't think, but I'm content with my decision to retire.

To resign from the front bench is not a decision to be taken lightly.

The good news is that the president gets another chance. The bad news is that he'll be two weeks older.

The application requisite to the duties of the office I hold [governor of Virginia] is so excessive, and the execution of them after all so imperfect, that I have determined to retire from it at the close of the present campaign.

I quite clearly have made the right decision in my heart, retirement was the way.

Al Davis was the first to know about my decision to retire, and Mom was second.

You can never say never in this game, but I can't see myself boxing again. There's loads of things I want to do.