Eric Garcetti Quotes

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

If you are prepared to run for public office, you also have to be willing to accept a debate about you.

I'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession.

I actually had a dream that one of my friends became president, and I was trying to help out with the campaign. It was pretty good.

I was approached by friends who encouraged me to run for an open seat - attorney general of Michigan. It was a big risk.

I ran for Congress, just once.

I am considering running for Senate, as well as other opportunities.

I think what happens when you are prime minister is no day is the same and every day you are under pressure. And there is always so much happening that the days just flash by and flash into weeks.

Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same running for president of the United States - that I could make a really big, positive difference.

I am running for my Senate district in 2014 and looking forward hopefully to earning the confidence of my community once again and being reelected for that seat.

I was considering running for political office.

I thought I could make a difference, so I ran for office.

Every member of my family knows that running for office is a personal decision.

Some political spouses are much more comfortable on the campaign trail than others, and they take to it a lot more naturally.

I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.

I have got everything which a politician needs.

There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.

I'm not going to run for political office.

Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage.

I'd love to run for office, but it requires such knowledge.

Most people who run for political office have another job.

A political campaign is a movement. It's built around a single candidate. It will evaporate when he or she gets elected.

I'm not running for any office so whether I'm running with one man or 18 men is nobody's business.

If you are going to run for national office, you'd better understand that optimism is something Americans expect.