Political Ambition Quotes

I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.

We are not going to waste our reserves and burn them for any political ambitions. We will act very carefully.

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

My political ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian

A small minority in Turkey even accuses me of having political ambitions, when in fact I have been struggling with various illnesses for many years.

I have never had, nor will I ever have, any [political] ambitions. The only thing on which I have always set my heart is being able to gain God's good pleasure and, therefore, trying to make him known correctly and loved by humanity.

My husband is a Democrat, and I am a Republican, so our political ambitions are on opposite ends.

Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought, that often distinguished Americans in earlier times and that is invariably the preeminent trait of great characters wherever it exists.

I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.

It is quite possible that someone is insane and they think they have a chance. Not insane in the clinical sense, but they may have such a strong political ambition that they blind themselves to reality.

The only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase their emoluments, but it also enables them to improve their importance. The have-nots who support the politicians in the demand for income taxation do so only because they hate the haves; . . . the sum of all the arguments for income taxation comes to political ambition and the sin of covetousness.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you don't want to become an actor. Not only is acting more than a part time job, it's more than a full time job. It's a full time obsession.

Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.