Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I'd be the chief minister.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.
Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that's my wife.
Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.
I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.
I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.
I came in to make a difference, to be a minister, to make policy.
I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.
In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.
I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.