Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

I could probably win the Presidency if I ran, but I don’t think I could win the nomination.

The nominee of our party, which at this - is presumed to be Donald Trump - I think that's the right team to support. That's what I've always said I would.

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

There's no question I'm going to do everything within the normal political bounds to make sure we don't nominate Donald Trump.

Originally, the main purpose of the convention was to determine who the party would have as the presidential nominee and the vice-presidential nominee.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

In my years working in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, I had learned that those who seek the presidency are prepared to stop at almost nothing to get their party’s nomination.

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.

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

… to get the Republican nomination for President, you have to be an outsider.

I've been really clear about this. If you want to be president, you should run for president. We should select our nominee from among the people who are running for president. Clear and simple. So no, I am not going to be the president. I am not going to be the nominee.

The real fight is within the Republican Party to get it to nominate grassroots-type candidates who the public wants, and not just some 'echo' of the other side.

In 2000, Trump could have won the Reform Party nomination. I chaired his presidential exploratory committee.

The only way to win the White House, in my view, is to become a nominee of either the Republican or the Democrat Party, and simply running to be a spoiler would not give the American people, I think, the chance to express their own views about Mr. Trump or about Secretary Clinton.

Far be it from me to denigrate Senator McCain's advice on vice presidential nominees.

Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, if your standard-bearer for the presidency is not doing well, it's gonna reflect on the down-ballot.

Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years.

You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.

The initial attraction of a political convention was that often the outcome was not preordained. There was at least some element of surprise. But, now it's like tuning in to a movie where you already know the plot and the ending. It's just not that interesting.

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

So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington.

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

Well, let me just say - I mean, I'm not a person who's going to vote for any of the potential Republican nominees for the presidency of the United States.

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

If you are running for the presidency of the United States, you better have a strong opinion.