Robert Redford Quotes

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

I wanted to do a political film that is as nonpartisan as can be, because I wanted to do a story that was American. I wanted to tell an American tragedy.

Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.

In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.

John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.

When you're putting together a campaign for president, like I've been, that entails a lot of time. It's not like I've been at the beach sipping a pina colada.

'W.' is not necessarily a political film, but it was sort of a contrasting reality for me to get into George W. Bush as a character because of how I felt about his administration before I started making the film.

We are all encouraged that Bush appears, really for the first time in his experience on the stage of presidential politics, relaxed. His comfort is our comfort.

I grew up in the GOP sandbox. My dad took me, age 7, to meet Herbert Hoover, in his apartment at the Waldorf Towers. He gave me a silver dollar. Being a young Republican, I spent it on comic books.

The hardest thing about a presidential election is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Neil McElroy, the Secretary of Defense, had joined the Episcopalian Church. When a public figure joins the church at the age of fifty plus, it means one thing – he’s planning to run for President of the United States.

Reveal Richard Nixon … lay him and his motives bare … destroy him in his shot for the Presidency.

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

I never had a political thought in my life until they asked me to join the Richard Nixon Presidential Campaign.

John McCain has not been president of the United States. He ran. He ran a spirited campaign. We lost. I hated to see us lose, but there were a lot of things working against us.

Toward the end of the 1964 presidential campaign, Reagan gives a speech on behalf of Barry Goldwater. It was like a screen test for a new career.

I never thought that Trump was going to run for president, but I was very firmly on record, including in the book that I wrote before, 'Adios, America,' as saying that Republicans should stop wasting their time with these novelty candidates.

'West Wing' was a show about politics.

Donald Trump just happens to be one of those who endorsed me I do not want to see as president of the United States.

I think social issues are always part of a presidential campaign.

Ted Cruz, when he was running for president, was a huge 'Princess Bride' fan. He would quote the lines and, you know, trying to win families and everything.

I traveled the country for a year and a half helping Hillary Clinton to try to become president.

I don't remember most of the '60s and '70s.

I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.

Forget politics and what their platforms were and everything, because you can take whoever you want to take, but the guy that I liked was Nixon... He was a smart man.