Running For Office Quotes

• It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Running for office is important, and you don't really need more than to be right on the issues, and to be able to articulate what it is you believe. You don't need a certain background. You don't need to be a lawyer. You don't need to have some professional degree.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Running, Believe, Issues

  "All Hope is Local: Quit Whining and Run for Office" by Allison Kilkenny, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 2, 2008.

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• Never trust a man when he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Love, Running, Men

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• Citizenship in the 21st century requires more than paying your taxes and voting and occasionally running for office. That even if you're never in political office, you have political responsibilities. You can make your society stronger and better.

  William J. Clinton

  Running, Responsibility, Office

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, Ive wrestled with that very question myself.

  Jim Wallis

  Running, Mean, Thinking

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• I've always thought that the role of citizen, the role of advocate, were as important in our democracy as running for office.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Office, Democracy

  "'Goldwater Girl': Putting Context To A Resurfaced Hillary Clinton Interview". Interview with Scott Simon, kmuw.org. March 26, 2016.

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• Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'

  George W. Bush

  Running, Office, Principles

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• I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'

  Marianne Williamson

  Running, Cheerleading, Heart

  "Gabrielle Bernstein Interviews Marianne Williamson: Sister Giant". Interview with Gabrielle Bernstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2012.

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  It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Honesty, Hate

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• My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Running, Men, Office

  William Randolph Hearst (1952). “William Randolph Hearst: a portrait in his own words”

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• It used to be the custom in this country that when you had made a career and were mature in judgment, you went to the Senate to give something back t the Republic. The idea that at age 25 you go out and buy a blow dryer and starting running for office is not what the founders had in mind

  Gore Vidal

  Running, Country, Blow

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• Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?

  Queen Latifah

  Running, Kids, Differences

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• The people who have the biggest passion for restricting other people's behavior are the very people we should worry about most. Unfortunately, they keep running for office.

  John Stossel

  Running, Passion, Worry

  "Busybody Politicians, Get Off Our Backs" by John Stossel, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 06, 2006.

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• Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.

  Carrie Fisher

  Sports, Running, Office

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• It's the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That can also apply to a lot of other challenges in life, whether it's running for office, starting a family, going to grad school or taking all of your cash and assets and starting a business.

  Mark Udall

  Running, School, People

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• I want Christians to consider who they vote for. We look a lot at the presidential elections. And that's where so much of our focus is, especially from the media, but some of the most important elections are the local elections - the mayors, city council members, county commissioners, school boards. How important school boards are - and we need to get Christian men and women running for office. We need Christian men and women not only running for office, but voting and getting behind other Christians that are running for office.

  Franklin Graham

  Christian, Running, School

  "Inside The Nationwide Tour To Support 'Godly Leaders'". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• I don't think running for office is anything I'm prepared for or could even prepare myself for.

  America Ferrera

  Running, Thinking, Office

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• I'm not running for office. I don't have to be politically correct. I don't have to be a nice person. Like I watch some of these weak-kneed politicians, it's disgusting. I don't have to be that way.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Running, Business

  "Anderson Cooper 360°", transcripts.cnn.com. December 28, 2006.

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• A lot of people want me to run for things, for a lot of high offices. The polls always show that I win any election that I'm in. But I don't have any real interest in running for office. I'm more interested in supporting people.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Real, Winning

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Husband, Shoes

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• People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-point plan or a bumper sticker kind of way of bringing down gasoline prices. The fact of the matter is that nobody can do that. The price of oil is set on the global economy. People who have looked at this closely and hard know that's the case.

  Ken Salazar

  Running, Gasoline Prices, Oil

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• There is
  A madman inside of you
  Who is always running for office

  Hafez

  Running, Office, Madmen

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• Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it's not like a compulsive need to be liked. Like my need to be praised.

  Steve Carell

  Needs, Enjoy

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• One of the reasons I'm in this business is because I have absolute respect for the people who say, "You know what? I think I can make this a little better and I'm willing to get in and try." Because, I'll tell you, there are a hell of a lot of reasons to stay away from running for office today.

  Roger Ailes

  Running, Thinking, Office

  Source: www.campaignsandelections.com

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• Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

  Barry Gibb

  Liars, Australia, Leaving

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