Marion Barry Quotes

One of the questions that I often get is, 'Why are you running to be President?'. To Be President! What did I miss? I'm not running to go to Disneyland.

I will not run for president. No, nope, not going to do it.

I never thought I would run for Congress. If you look back at a certain reality TV show, you know that.

Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III.

I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

I don't even want to be president!

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 I ran for governor, was I ambitious? Yes. Anyone, male or female, who goes through the trials of a campaign must be ambitious.

Would I consider a run for political office? Yes.

I have no desire to run for public office.

I want to be the governor of Arkansas. I'm going to be the governor of Arkansas. I might be president, but I will be the governor of Arkansas.

People have sort of been swirling around me, going, 'Oh, you should run for mayor.' Well I didn't really want that job. 'Well, you should run for governor.' Well, that's not really possible.

I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.

It's a hard job to become president.

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'm running for governor; I'm not running for a legislative office.

I am running for Governor of the great state of Ohio and welcome your support.

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.

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.

I really want to be governor when I have a partner in the White House.

If I wanna be president, I probably can.

I will not ever run for political office. I can assure you.

I would love to be able to serve in office in some capacity with Romney as president.

I could run for Congress. Why not? Good heavens, if Ronald Reagan can be president, I ought to make a great secretary of the treasury.

I ran for Congress, just once.