Richard Cohen Quotes

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.

… all raw emotion and little knowledge

I do not choose to run for President in nineteen twenty-eight.

John, I need for you to write an editorial urging me to run for the State Senate.

I personally am deeply distressed that there has been so much talk about religion in this campaign ….

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.

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.

Nobody has a cakewalk to become governor.

I had run other people's campaigns. I had been doing political activities for a decade before I ever ran for office myself. That is so much the experience of women of my generation. We always feel as though we have to bring so much more to the table, and that never stops the guys.

Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.

Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.

I would note that the scripture tells us, "you shall know them by their fruit." We see lots of "campaign conservatives." But if we're going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative, someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative.

My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them.

Let's face it: Bush is just dim.

Donald Trump has fired a campaign adviser for posting racist remarks on Facebook. Isn't that shocking? Donald Trump has a campaign adviser.

If you were following the [Barack] Obama campaign back then, closely, you could see it had become very close to banking interests. So I think you can't properly understand Hillary Clinton's foreign policy without understanding Saudi Arabia.

Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long

Any kind of political campaign that taps the kind of energy that nothing else can reach would generate a tremendous high for everybody involved in it.

We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground.

[Donald] Trump still thinks he's in a campaign.

Hillary Clinton has not done an interview with me during the campaign season. I spoke to her years ago but not this season...so I don't want to misspeak.

Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.

I am a registered Democrat (there are only two Republicans in Maryland and they're both in office) and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office myself.