Booker T Quotes

I hope Paper Boi runs for president. I hope he does. Governor, mayor, senator, I hope he does it all. You better believe it.

The Thinking Fella Votes McKellar!

I would consider running for office. But not for mayor.

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 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.

The American future is here, and there's great news: the future votes.

In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.

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

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

I ran for my first office at 25 against an incumbent city councilman. I took 55% of the vote and became the youngest councilman in the area at the time.

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

To be elected to public office requires no qualifications.

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

In politics, you have a one-day sale. You have every customer allowed in the store for one or two minutes on that day, and you have to sell a majority or plurality of the market or you are out of business.

I'm not running for the U.S. Senate because I think Lincoln Chafee is a bad man.

I'm an elected politician. If you don't agree with me, vote for somebody else.

If you want a politician, then you probably shouldn't vote for me.

When I was elected for the first time in '06 I'd never been elected to any body. City councils, school board, community college boards, trustee, water district trustee, class president, ASB president, senior class president - nothing. I was never elected to anything in my life.

Instead of doing what everybody else does and sue the city of Los Angeles, I decided I was going to run for mayor.

I always say if anybody is running for president, for office, I always take them seriously.

I would never enter politics, but I will go out and vote.

I am a United States citizen and I vote.

Today, I'm a candidate for the office of president of the United States of America. My kids can't believe I just said that.

Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.

We can change the direction of the country with our vote.