Candidacy For President Quotes & Sayings

When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy. — Chelsea Clinton

If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with soldiers deployed in two theaters of war, has had multiple meetings with Dick Cheney, the former vice-president of the United States, to discuss Petraeus's candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency. — Eric Massa

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

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married. — Gloria Steinem

I think this transition to a candidacy will allow me to be more direct about my advocacy of the leadership skills necessary for the next president to fix a few things, and as a candidate, contrary to someone who has been listening and learning along the way, I'll offer up alternatives to the path we're on as well, so I'll be more specific on policy. — Jeb Bush

Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States. I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort. Jeri and I will always be grateful for the encouragement and friendship of so many wonderful people. — Fred Thompson

I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out. — Nick Bantock

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney. — Star Jones

If this advertisement be not sufficient, I can only protrude my wormlike tendrils of apology, craving forbearance on the grounds that a writer must write about what he knows, and since I know nothing about any subject it scarcely matters where I dabble. — William T. Vollmann

If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I've not done any of those things. It's not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation. — Paul Ryan

It may not matter how u start but it matters how u finish — Ikechukwu Joseph

I can't -
You can and you will.Take me, baby. — B.B. Reid

The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live. — Alexander Sutherland Neill

To enjoy true, vibrant health, increased awareness, effort, and focus are required. — Rand Olson

Change your ways when fear seizes," he had said, "for it usually means you are doing something wrong. — Jean Craighead George

There's a reason why your toes are forward and your heels backward.
It means, step on your past with your heels and approach your furute with your toes. — Nomthandazo Tsembeni

The lonely season in lonely lands, when fled Are half the birds, and mists lie low, and the sun Is rarely seen, nor strayeth far from his bed; The short days pass unwelcomed one by one. — Robert Bridges

Sen. Joe Biden, on the day of announcing his candidacy for president of the United States, called Barack Obama the first mainstream African-American who is articulate, bright, and ... clean. I think we've seen the shortest presidential campaign in history. — Jay Leno