I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.
In politics, one is never finished. Look at me!
Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
Richard Nixon is very much a self-made man in the six years prior to his emergence as a national figure. Between the moment he's elected to Congress in 1946 and the moment he's inaugurated as Vice President in 1953, he conducts nothing less than a kind of prodigy of American political self-advancement.
Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.
Ambition, of course, is the politician's currency.
There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.
There are actually no political aspirations. I think you need to have the right attitude and aptitude for it. I don't think I have the right aptitude for it. I think it is unfair to push somebody in that direction just because my father happens to be a politician.
I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality.
Without political will, nothing moves forward.
I had always thought about running for high political office, and I was kind of waiting for the stars to line up. And, you know, they don't hold the door open for you. You kind of have to muscle your way in.
My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.
