Running For Office Quotes

Never trust a man when he’s in love, drunk, or running for office.

There are certain occupations – probably, most prominently, politics – where there would be a bias against somebody who’s agnostic or atheist in running for office.

Politics comes and goes, but your principles don’t. And everybody wants to be loved — not everybody. … You never heard anybody say, ‘I want to be despised, I’m running for office.’

Muslims are absolutely integrating into the United States. You can go nearly any community and you find people opening up clinics that mostly non-Muslims go in to get services. They are feeding people who are hungry, American citizens, mostly people who are not Muslim. They`re running for office.

One of the reasons I’m in this business is because I have absolute respect for the people who say, “You know what? I think I can make this a little better and I’m willing to get in and try.” Because, I’ll tell you, there are a hell of a lot of reasons to stay away from running for office today.

My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them.

I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, ‘Why not me?’

Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.

And after I make a lot of money, I’ll be able to afford running for office.

I’ve always thought that the role of citizen, the role of advocate, were as important in our democracy as running for office.

I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.

I still maintain that you cannot treat [Donald] Trump, analyze Trump, destroy Trump the way politics says you destroy people that are running for office. I don’t think the standard, ordinary operating procedures work.

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it’s not like a compulsive need to be liked. Like my need to be praised.

Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.

One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.

I’m running for office, for Pete’s sake, I can’t have illegals.