Big business Quote by Donald Trump

I was a very, very establishment person prior to wanting to run.

— Donald Trump

In my case, I think people are surprised that I'm doing exactly what I said I was going to do when I ran, because…

— Rick Scott

I ran for the electoral college. I didn't run for the popular vote.

— Donald Trump

I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me, and did…

— Matt Gonzalez

I've run for statewide office plenty of times, and people know me.

— Bernie Sanders

I left my business to run for the Senate because I believe the government needs to run more like a business.

— Mike Braun

People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.

— Andrew Cuomo

I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down.

— Barack Obama

I felt like the only way to effectively run for office is if you had access to a lot of wealth, high social influence,…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The Minnesota Republican hierarchy didn't want me to run against their incumbent in 2000; they didn't know who I was. And once many party…

— Michele Bachmann

You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it…

— Rand Paul

I was the last person to announce I was running for Congress in a big district, and I still won.

— Mike Quigley