Campaign Quote by Meghan McCain

In presidential campaigns, experience as a candidate is an invaluable asset.

— Bob Beckel

Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.

— Mark McKinnon

“The first and most essential quality of a presidential candidate, as Averell Harriman once pointed out, is that he should lust for the job…

— Theodore H. White

When you're running for president you have to take some risks and you've got to show people something fresh and you've got to stay…

— David Brooks

It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.

— Hunter S. Thompson

The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities…

— Vicente Fox

[Running for President is] physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III

— Walter F. Mondale

I love presidential campaigns. It is a time when people are feeling what is going on in the heart of our country.

— Kerry Kennedy

I understand I'm running against a person who is so anxious to become president, he will do whatever it takes.

— George W. Bush

My candidacy is a compelling argument for my candidacy. I want to be President.

— John Hodgman

When I am the candidate, I run the campaign.

— Richard M. Nixon

The truth is that I have never created a president to push a political point of view. I am often looking to create aspirational…

— Rod Lurie