Ambition Quote by John McCain

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

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

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

— Marco Rubio

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 didn't want to be president; I didn't want to be governor; I didn't want to be a congress person. I just wanted to…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

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 said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.

— Mario Cuomo

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

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

— Craig Armstrong

I have decided not to run for president.

— John Bolton

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

— Cameron Russell