Chevy Chase Quotes

The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.

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

If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win.

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.

During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner.

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.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

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

The brighter the presidential prospect of victory [for a particular party], the greater the crop of available candidates.

You can’t win a Presidential election in this country with just a base.

Unfortunately it has come to pass that we choose our Presidents because of their vote-getting qualities in certain doubtful states rather than for their qualifications for the office they are to fill.

He [Jimmy Carter] can't win the presidency. I don't even know him.

The outcome of an election depends on the candidate, not the people on the sidelines [advisors, handlers, etc.]

Donald Trump defeated not one but two political parties on his way to winning the Presidency.

I think that winning the White House is about more than just entertaining a large audience.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

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.

I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama.

If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election.

It was a presidential election year, and as a member of a consortium of Ivy League radio stations, we participated in 'network' coverage of election night.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

Spend hundreds of millions; talk endlessly about issues; present 12-point plans for education, the economy, and the environment. But in the end, the election of our next president can turn on a gaffe.

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

I could have beat Obama.

It's always valuable for someone running for president... to have as much bipartisan support as possible.