Candidate Quote by Sixto Rodriguez

I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me, and did…

— Matt Gonzalez

I've run for statewide office plenty of times, and people know me.

— Bernie Sanders

I've been in a lot of elections.

— Arlen Specter

I ran for Congress, just once.

— Shirley Temple

I ran for Congress in 1992, but I lost the election, and I really dropped the idea of ever serving in Congress. Eventually, I…

— Lois Frankel

I've not been a decisively re-elected city councilor and top vote-getter three times because I haven't done the work and because I don't work…

— Ayanna Pressley

I won re-election twice as a city councilor, and I did so by being a city councilor who communicated with my constituents, who represented…

— Jake Auchincloss

Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's…

— Jim Hightower

I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.

— Jack L. Chalker

I was considering running for political office.

— Michael Newdow

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've never sought elected office since I was a senior class president in high school.

— Jeffrey Chiesa