Johann Lamont Quotes

I'd like to run for president. Or Prime Minister. I think I could do a better job.

After thinking carefully about how I can best help my fellow Minnesotans, I have decided to not seek election for a different office in 2014. The warm encouragement from many people to run for U.S. senator or the governorship was deeply humbling.

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

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

I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.

When I was in the military, my dad ran in the Mike Harris 1995 Common Sense Revolution election, and that's where I really made the decision that one day I would love to run for office.

If I am elected, God willing, to the United States Senate, I will be leading the charge for President Trump.

Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?

I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office.

School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

In ten years I will become president of the United States Of America.

I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing.

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.

Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.

I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.

It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.

I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.

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

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.'

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

Normal people don't just wake up in the morning and say I think it'd be a good idea to run for president of the United States.

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

I will not ever run for political office. I can assure you.