American citizen Quote by Joy Behar

I do not choose to run for President in 1928.

— Calvin Coolidge

Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948…

— Roger Ebert

The 20th of March in 1964, I went before the Secretary of State to qualify to run as an official candidate for Congress from…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

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

— Kristin Lehman

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

— Clint Eastwood

Once you choose to run for president of the United States and succeed, your earlier life, your biography, is a major part of American…

— David Garrow

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

— Donald Trump

I learned more in 11 months in running for president than I did in 12 years of school.

— Joe Exotic

“Harry Truman—the man who won the four-way 1948 presidential campaign, triumphing over the segregationist Thurmond, the Progressive candidate Henry A. Wallace, and the Republican…

— Jon Meacham

The first election I remember was Dewey Truman in '48. I was, I guess, seven years old.

— George Will

When I was 33 years old, I ran for United States Congress in New York City. I lost miserably.

— Reshma Saujani

People send me e-mails saying, "You're a movie critic. You don't know anything about politics." Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and…

— Roger Ebert