Victor Mitchell Quotes

It's easier to run for office than to run the office.

You would make the best governor but not the best candidate.

Governor of Louisiana By the Grace of the People

It is often constructive to meet with a candidate for a particular office, but I believe what is most important is the candidate's track record.

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

I ain't running for office. I ain't running for nothing.

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'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do.

I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is.

[Martin] Van Buren says he considers it as a misfortune when any office to be filled by him becomes vacant, and thinks patronage rather a burden than a benefit.

To be elected to public office requires no qualifications.

While not all politicians are statesmen, all statesmen are politicians.

It is Ordered, sentenced, and decreed, that no person be chosen Governor above once in two years

I'm a former governor, and so I was the chief executive, and when the legislature wasn't in session, I was running the state.

I am not seeking any position in a Dole Administration.

I actually think you should run for president if you're going to be president, if you want to be president. I'm not running for president. I made that decision, consciously, not to.

The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I'd be the chief minister.

I don't see myself in any way in elective office.

Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president.

If you're in Congress, you vote and give speeches. But governors have to make decisions every day, and presidents have to make decisions every day.

I don't think I would run for president.

If you don't like public service, don't run for office.

I never thought I would run for office.

I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.