Better Quote by Mitch McConnell

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

— Kristin Lehman

The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I…

— Richard Lugar

I never ran for student council or class president or any of that stuff. I didn't hang out with those people. It was just…

— John Hickenlooper

I ran for president in 1996.

— Arlen Specter

I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond…

— Condoleezza Rice

I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.

— Demetri Martin

When I was a senior, I ran for class president. And I lost. One of my opponents even told me I was "really stupid"…

— Hillary Clinton

I was the student body president three years in a row.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

I ran for my first office at 25 against an incumbent city councilman. I took 55% of the vote and became the youngest councilman…

— James Knowles III

I ran for the electoral college. I didn't run for the popular vote.

— Donald Trump

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 was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and…

— Louis Gossett, Jr