Jon Huntsman Jr. Quotes

I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.

I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.

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 would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

I had not even thought of running for president until one day in 1991, at a small fund-raiser, completely unanticipated, someone stood up and said, 'Hey, Mario, in all the years we've supported you, we've never heard you talk about the presidency, and we want to know why not.'

It's going to be hard for someone like me to run for president.

Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.

One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.

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.

I would love to be president. I just concluded I was not the best person to carry forward the Republican torch.

I believe that if you want to be president of the United States, you run for president. You don't run for president with some eject button in the cockpit that allows you to go on an exit ramp if it doesn't work out.

In their day, no man worthy of the presidency would ever stoop to campaigning for it. George Washington was asked to serve. Decades later, his successors were also expected to sit by the phone.

I didn't think I was ever going to run for office.

I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.

I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her.

I learned a lot about America and a lot about Pat Schroeder, and that's why I will not be a candidate for President.

In my heart, I'm confident I could make a good president.

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

People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.

I have no plans to run for president.

I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.

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

I'm making this decision based on whether I believe in my heart that I'm ready to be president of the United States and that I want to be president of the United States right now.

If I wanna be president, I probably can.