Rex Stout Quotes

My beloved Hillary, do not disappoint me. You have to be President, OK?

Everybody's saying I should run for president.

I feel like I could run for President. People often laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I could be in the White House.

I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

If Colin Powell was president, I'd follow him. I wanna get into politics. That's the way for us to overcome a lot of our obstacles.

It's really hard to get to know me, or any candidate. And I would be asked questions like, well, why are you really running for president?

How many people who have run for President did not believe that God wanted them to be President?

My family and I couldn't be more happy for the opportunity to run with and serve with the next president of the United States.

I may be a vain person, but I'm not a vain performer.

Anybody who thinks that they should lead the country should go ahead and put their hat in the ring. I am not among them. And I want to be unequivocal about that. There are no circumstances. I don't want to be coy about this.

I don't have an ego. I check it at the door.

I think personality correction is necessary for successful men, like prime ministers, businessmen, politicians... it's essential that one should keep an eye on one's own personality. You must have seen people in politics who become chief ministers and then pass into oblivion - how egotistical they became and how pathetic they look.

When a candidate walks away from a reality show, that's when you know they're serious about being president of the United States.

Barry Goldwater once said ruefully, and I know how he feels. "It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be President . . . except me."

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

I prepared to be president. And I think that's a good thing.

After campaign financial reports show more money spent than raised in the month of September. Report adds to growing speculation that Donald Trump is not in some very deep psychological sense, actually running to be President of the United States, so much as he's running to build up a fan base for Donald Trump.

I'm offering myself up. I'm saying that if I have the background, the capability and the concern to do this and I'm doing this for the right reasons... but I'm not particularly interested in running for president, but I think I'd make a good president. Nowadays, the process has become much more important than I think it used to be.

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

I have no intention of being vice president. I have said it clearly.

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

Running for president must be like having babies. You have to forget what it was like the last time before you want to do it again.

I have absolutely no interest in running for president again.

I think I'm the only senator who does not see a president when I look in the mirror.

I really - as I said, I wanted to be President of the United States. It didn't turn out that way.