Richard Ben Cramer Quotes

Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place.

I had a unique circumstance in which my career was associated with George W. Bush, who went straight to the top. I went to work for him in October of 1993. So my whole identity in national politics is associated with this president, and you know, I kind of want to leave it that way. It's not tugging at me to go do the '08 cycle.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

Jason McDermott's political career, however bogus, appears to have had an early and promising start.

Every senator I know would like to be President. The question is do they want to run to be President.

It was flattering to have high expectations, but I was never going to be President.

Let me tell you this: if Marco Rubio - even though he's only been in the Senate for a very short period of time, that man has a huge, huge opportunity in this country, and I think he could be the president.

I've never believed in running for office so you can eventually run for some other office.

Not everyone who goes to Washington becomes Washington.

I have no intention of being vice president. I have said it clearly.

I'm always looking for a way to serve the nation, but I don't believe that it will be as vice president and I'm really not seeking it, I'm not requesting it and it won't happen.

I feel like I could run for President. People often laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I could be in the White House.

I'm not looking to be anyone's vice president. I looking to be the president of the United States. Or, I'll be a private citizen, there's nothing wrong with being a private citizen.

If I can make a generalization, men get into politics because, from the time they're little boys, they've been wanting to be President.

I'm not running for Vice President, I'm not looking to be anyone's vice president, I want to be the president.

Ivanka Trump should probably run for office one day.

I'm not particularly interested in running for president.

If Colin Powell was president, I'd follow him. I wanna get into politics. That's the way for us to overcome a lot of our obstacles.

For a guy that grew up on 31st Street and Everroad Park West and played on Haw Creek and dreamed some day of serving in Washington D.C., from my boyhood, to have the opportunity to have represented my hometown in our nation's capital, and now to have the opportunity to serve the entire nation as vice president is ... it's just deeply humbling.

I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.

Ted Cruz could be president of the United States. If you thought the Secret Service was drinking before

I must be wanting to be President. Every young man does. But I won't let myself think of it; I must not, because if I do, I will begin to work for it; I'll be careful, calculating, cautious in word and act, and so - I'll beat myself.

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

I don't think I would be a good politician. I kid about it when I get a standing ovation. Sometimes I'll say, "I may run for Governor," but it's strictly a joke.

If I didn't believe that we had a chance of coming to power, then I would have focused on taking care of my three children or gardening.