Tom Cotton Quotes

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

I have decided not to run for president.

I never like to talk about my own politics, but whether you're left, right or center, the 2008 race was definitely good drama.

When you are running for the presidency of the United States, you have to expect that you are going to have attacks by all sides.

I ran for president in 1996.

I can't believe George Bush might be president.

An election year is no time for nuances.

The last I checked, this is an election, and in an election we play politics.

When it comes time to go into the booth, I will be writing down President Mike Bloomberg.

I've covered a lot of presidential campaigns.

I certainly didn't see the mayor's withdrawal coming. I was looking for a highly contested mayoral campaign.

Obviously, we have a political season in the United States, and there's always different winds that blow on that.

Popularity has always been the key currency in choosing a president.

It's a hard job to become president.

It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said.

I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller.

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

Presidential politics is not like a golf tournament. There’s no prize for second place.

Running for President of the United States requires everyone on the family working on it.

The difference between a horse race and a political race is that in a horse race the whole horse runs.

The outcome of an election depends on the candidate, not the people on the sidelines [advisors, handlers, etc.]

There's a lot of work to be done if you're going to run for president or if you're going to run for re-election in a state as big as Florida.

It's important to know enough about all of the candidates to make an informed choice, and our candidate is Hillary Clinton.