Men Quote by George McGovern

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 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

I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.

— Cameron Russell

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

— Marco Rubio

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

— Donald Trump

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 ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

— Shirley Chisholm

When I was 27, having never run for office before, I decided to run for Congress.

— Krystal Ball

I ran for president in 1996.

— Arlen Specter

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

— Craig Armstrong

I ran for ninth grade class president. Came in a close second.

— Kristin Lehman