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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Ambition, of course, is the politician's currency.
I don't even think in terms of ambition.
Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.
Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.
The most successful politicians are the ones who embrace their best traits while turning their liabilities into loveable attributes. And yet, many a candidate tries to run as something they aren't simply because the strategy dictates it.
I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious.
Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
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