The last thing I expected in the world was to end up being…

Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign…

— Fred Thompson

I think it's a scary sign of the times that pop culture and social media is so involved [in presidential election ], where it…

— Lily Collins

To approach the badlands is to find a gap in the known and expected world.

— Robert Kroetsch

You cannot and should not try to please everyone. Make sure that the right people like you, and it will be expected that others…

— David Maister

“I don't know who I am anymore." I expected the world to crack open and the sky to fall once I said it. Nothing…

— Lili St. Crow

This was the last thing I expected. You destroy my life and then feed me some inspiratonal philosophy.

— Richelle Mead

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

— Zachary Cole Smith

Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He was prepared, he thought, for any wonder. The only thing he had never expected was the utterly commonplace.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

The brutality of the pace. This was my third presidential campaign and it was a thousand times faster paced than my first one in…

— Kevin Madden

I am suspending my presidential campaign.

— Herman Cain

Truly, if you can't cover a five-car pile-up on Route 128, you should not be covering a presidential campaign.

— Molly Ivins

I believe over the long term he's going to have the money, and he's got the message, that this is going to be one…

— Ted Cruz

An American presidential campaign resembles a forced march through enemy country.

— Bill Vaughan

I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional…

— Ed Koch