Fight Quote by Cori Bush

I thought I could make a difference, so I ran for office.

— Mary Fallin

I ran because somebody had to do it first. In this country, everybody is supposed to be able to run for president, but that…

— Shirley Chisholm

I just didn't have the desire to run for political office. There are other things that I like to do, and it just wasn't…

— Dorothy Bush Koch

I was considering running for political office.

— Michael Newdow

I certainly never thought I would run for office myself. If someone had suggested it, I would have laughed out loud.

— Jennifer Granholm

I ran [for presidency] because I knew what trouble our country was in.

— Donald Trump

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

— George McGovern

I ran for office because I believe personally that the cycle of poverty is systemic, is rooted in racial injustice, and is rooted in…

— Jamaal Bowman

Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on.

— Craig Armstrong

I run for president because I believe that we can't just save the American dream; we can expand it to reach more people and…

— Marco Rubio

I really do feel like I'm doing what the people that elected me in the first place wanted me to do. I'm not doing…

— Mick Mulvaney

It's easier to run for office than to run the office.

— Thomas P. O'Neill