Born Quote by Calvin Trillin

My father always wanted me to be president of the United States, and his fallback position was that I not become a ward of…

— Kevin Sessums

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

— Alec Baldwin

I think my father thought I might be president of the United States. I think he would've been satisfied with secretary of state. I'm…

— Condoleezza Rice

I really - as I said, I wanted to be President of the United States. It didn't turn out that way.

— Marco Rubio

I spent almost two years trying to get my father elected president.

— Meghan McCain

It isn't that I was born thinking I had to be president. I'm getting a lot of encouragement to run from people across the…

— Michele Bachmann

I grew up believing that I could be the president of the United States. I was told I could be whatever I wanted.

— Don Lemon

I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in, or to run a campaign…

— John McCain

Maybe I became president because I didn't try to be it.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

When I was really little, I wanted to be our first woman president. I always knew I want to be the kind of grownup…

— Marley Dias

I love what's happened to me, but when I was a kid, I wanted to be the president of the United States.

— Chris Rock

I never thought I'd run for president. My parents were immigrants to this country - and leader of the free world was not on…

— Andrew Yang