Lamar Alexander Quotes

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

I have decided not to run for president.

I don't think running for office is anything I'm prepared for or could even prepare myself for.

When you are running for the presidency of the United States, you have to expect that you are going to have attacks by all sides.

Running for President of the United States requires everyone on the family working on it.

There's a lot of work to be done if you're going to run for president or if you're going to run for re-election in a state as big as Florida.

I was considering running for political office.

But I have made no plans to run for any office right now.

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.

Smilin' for the Presidency

I don't think that winning the presidency of the United States is a matter of a single issue.

A political campaign is a movement. It's built around a single candidate. It will evaporate when he or she gets elected.

I don't think people realize how life-altering running for president is.

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

Popularity has always been the key currency in choosing a president.

When I was 27, having never run for office before, I decided to run for Congress.

No sane person would run for president, right?

There's nothing easy about running for president, I can tell you. It's tough, it's nasty, it's mean, it's vicious, it's beautiful. When you win, it's beautiful. And we are going to start - we are going to start winning for our country.

If elected, I will win.

I actually had a dream that one of my friends became president, and I was trying to help out with the campaign. It was pretty good.

If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I've not done any of those things. It's not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation.

I'd love to run for office, but it requires such knowledge.

For the Presidency, you run on a record and not on your legs.

You can't win an election with money alone.

If I ran as a Dem, I know I could beat Hillary Clinton. And if it was me vs. Trump, I would crush him. No doubt about it.