Luis Gutierrez Quotes

You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

It isn't that I was born thinking I had to be president. I'm getting a lot of encouragement to run from people across the country. I don't believe this is a rash decision.

I'm saying there is no way that I will do this, because it's really not me. I know my strengths, and governor Romney needs to find someone who wants to run with him. There are many people who will do it very, very well, and I'll support the ticket.

Anyone weighing whether to re-elect the President should take the bin Laden operation into account: it is a powerful exhibit that Obama is a steely Commander in Chief - a critical test for many Americans.

When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote.

I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama.

According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.' He wasn't elected to be president, after all. He was elected as an avatar of American tolerance. His attempts to get himself reelected imply a certain, well, ingratitude.

If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91.

I supported Barack Obama. I wasn't very quiet about my support. I thought he was going to be a refreshing change to George Bush. But what has happened is that we have an election that's become a single-issue election, and that issue is Barack Obama. And he's an icon to both sides.

I would love to play the President of the United States. I have been told we resemble each other, and it would be a challenge I would be up for. Obama is from the south side of Chitown, and so am I... I'm just saying, but be on the lookout.

I think that it's important if you run for President that you have to make those important decisions. And your father, if he can help, probably, he helps just by being your father without getting intimately involved.

I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

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

My firm belief is that people who aspire to public service should have the best advice up front, as they decide whether to run and the people decide whether to support them.

I voted for Barack Obama largely on the basis of his temperament, which I thought superior. He is only 47 years old, but to me seemed older than that: a man of precocious aspect and judgment.

Sarah Palin, who with 17 months remaining in her single term as Alaska's governor quit the only serious office she has ever held, is obsessively discussed as a possible candidate in 2012. Why? She is not going to be president and will not be the Republican nominee unless the party wants to lose at least 44 states.

In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.

I am in favor of General Taylor as the Whig candidate for the Presidency because I am satisfied that we can elect him, that he will give us a Whig administration and that we cannot elect any other Whig.

We offer more than a program; we offer a man [Richard M. Nixon] to carry it out.

If you can't control these rumheads when you're their candidate, how the hell do you expect to control them if you become President?

Every senator I know would like to be President. The question is do they want to run to be President.

Mo Udall wanted to run for president [in 1976] in the worst way ... and he did.

If I wanted to be president, and if I were ever serious about it, the biggest thing I would have going for me is that I'm a conservative.

I don't have any presidential aspirations. If the millennials want me to do it, I'd do it, though.