Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Quotes

In 1968, 'Liberty Magazine' had an article about George Wallace in which he stated he would suggest me as a possible vice-presidential candidate, along with other choices such as 'Happy' Chandler and General Curtis LeMay. However, I am not interested in any political office in the United States or anywhere, now or back in 1968.

When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.

There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.

I don't really regard myself as a political figure.

I don't see myself as a political figure.

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

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

If I want to run for president, you'll be able to tell.

I don’t think you’d call the President political.

Nixon is the last candidate who couldn’t make it on the Johnny Carson Show who could make it in an election.

A man’s got to walk if he is going to be in politics.

I really believed that Mike Huckabee had a vision for our country, and the more I was around him the more I was impressed by this man.

Trump has got to, I think, move to a new level. This is no longer the primaries. He's no longer an interesting contender. He is now the potential leader of the United States and he's got to move his game up to the level of being a potential leader.

Forget politics and what their platforms were and everything, because you can take whoever you want to take, but the guy that I liked was Nixon... He was a smart man.

I am joining politics for sure.

If I'm going to compare myself to a candidate, it's Rick Scott. It's not Donald Trump.

Donald Trump has to be respected.

We know that England is crying for a leader, and that leader has emerged in the person of the greatest Englishman I have ever known, Sir Oswald Mosley... When the history of Europe comes to be written I can assure you that his name will not be second to either Mussolini or Hitler.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck could run for vice president.

I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.

I'm only sort of a politician.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.