Ambition, of course, is the politician's currency.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.
Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
I don't even think in terms of ambition.
Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.