Political Resignation Quotes

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

The man of public life has always at command a sure resource against this danger [losing political battles],—that is, retirement.

Sarah Palin's a quitter.

I think that Yulia Tymoshenko should prepare to resign. She understands that well.

Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November.

The idea of politics is just so uninteresting to me - I've never paid much attention to it. I don't believe things can really change. It doesn't matter who's president. Nothing really gets resolved. I don't know. I guess that's not the right attitude to take.

Sarah Palin, who with 17 months remaining in her single term as Alaska's governor quit the only serious office she has ever held, is obsessively discussed as a possible candidate in 2012. Why? She is not going to be president and will not be the Republican nominee unless the party wants to lose at least 44 states.

I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60% of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning. Today's vote on Brexit has no constitutional legitimacy.

There are enough people who lost faith in me that it's time to step aside and let there be a new voice for the 6th district in Washington, so I am not going to run for re-election.

I will not step down, I will not resign, ... I will work to the end of my term in office under the constitution. In the year 2000, there will be presidential elections under the constitution and I will not run in those elections.

I've stood down as UKIP leader. I'm not responsible for these people anymore.

Netanyahu needs to leave Israel's political life.

I am very glad that Paul Ryan left the government as a capitulating supplicant to Donald Trump while the government was shut down, while the debt hit record levels, right? Every single thing Paul Ryan claimed to care about.

Mitt Romney has asked Todd Akin to step down. That's too bad. Todd Akin was the guy to lead the Republican Party into the 16th century.

I don't think Jeremy Corbyn's going to stay, he's going to go. He knows parliamentary party have no faith in him.

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

Cameron's resignation really was the death knell of the Conservative Party as we knew it because that's something a proper Conservative politician cannot do: renounce leadership at the moment when it's needed.

There is little doubt that, until 1846 when he helped to engineer the resignation of Robert Peel, Disraeli was driven by an ambition to make his mark rather than by any consistent political purpose, and that his attacks on Peel would have not have been so mounted had he been given in 1841 the office for which he had asked.

I know I should have never got into politics. And I've learned my lesson. No more politics.

I decided that I was going to leave State House, and I was going also to step up and step aside so that I give President Peter Mutharika an opportunity to run the country without my interference.

I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.

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

In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.

Leaving politics was a good thing. I was spared a miserable Tory government where I might have ended up as leader.

It is amazing that Jeff Sessions is still in the job. Any self-respecting Attorney General of the United States would have publicly resigned as soon as the president's words became public. It is now clear that Jeff Sessions is going to be a witness against the president of the United States. It's also clear that the Donald Trump's defense to special prosecutor Robert Mueller is going to be, "I don't remember".