Christine Quinn Quotes

Honestly, if you are going to run for public office, I think it's incumbent... to speak up.

Public men are bees working in a glass hive.

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

I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.

I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

If I want to run for president, you'll be able to tell.

Smilin' for the Presidency

When you get into this line of work, you're in public office, you expect you're gonna have cheap shots taken at you. That's part of the process.

I'm thinking of trying to talk Jonathan Toews into running for Congress. We could use him.

If you will trust me with your vote, you can count on me to take those values to Washington.

When I was 27, having never run for office before, I decided to run for Congress.

If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck could run for vice president.

Voters don't have to love him, Romney advisers say, but they will respect him.

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

After thinking carefully about how I can best help my fellow Minnesotans, I have decided to not seek election for a different office in 2014. The warm encouragement from many people to run for U.S. senator or the governorship was deeply humbling.

I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question.

I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.

I always felt that a governor surrenders a certain amount of privacy. And I came to accept that.

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

You know I think the president has to really focus on getting elected to a second term in 2012. And I need to focus on making sure I'm accountable to the people of Missouri.

I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.

When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.

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.