Conventional wisdom Quote by Mark Cuban

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

Running for office, or suggesting you might, is no longer about being a politician but being an independent opinion or sensibility entrepreneur. You're looking…

— Michael Wolff

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo… to give a voice…

— Shirley Chisholm

I had always thought about running for high political office, and I was kind of waiting for the stars to line up. And, you…

— Matt Cartwright

My life will not be defined by a single political campaign. Those will come and go. But what has driven me to run for…

— Darryl Glenn

There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be…

— Gail Collins

The most successful politicians are the ones who embrace their best traits while turning their liabilities into loveable attributes. And yet, many a candidate…

— Chuck Todd

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

No sane person would run for president, right?

— Eric Garcetti

I don't think there's anybody who's run a campaign like [Donald Trump] successfully in modern history, not that I can think of. And, as…

— Barack Obama

I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved in order to stand up for…

— Ronald Reagan

“All men who run for presidency of the United States are amateurs; there is no way of becoming a professional at it, and all…

— Theodore H. White