Ambition Quote by Jon Lovett

All the best reasons for going into politics never really change: the desire for glory and fame and the chance to do something that…

— Michael Ignatieff

The reason I entered politics was a belief that the people of this country - having achieved so much that was good and noble…

— Michael Gove

For me, politics is not a career. For me, my career was being in business and starting a business and making it successful. My…

— Mitt Romney

I've always been a very political person, I didn't want to become something I didn't believe in.

— Bob the Drag Queen

I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade,…

— Ken Livingstone

In the old days I'd like to have been a politician, when I think the world was more idealistic. When I was young I…

— Sheila Hancock

I have no political aspirations, although a lot of people believe that politics and acting go hand in hand.

— Rita Mero

I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay…

— Barney Frank

I went from being a senator, a young senator, to being considered for vice president, running for president, being a vice presidential candidate, and…

— John Edwards

I never had aspirations to go into politics or medicine. I always wanted to be an artist of some sort. I wasn't so politically…

— Patti Smith

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

— Fawn M. Brodie

I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn't go…

— John Key