J. William Fulbright Quotes

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

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

I was considering running for political office.

I'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession.

I'm not going to run for political office.

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

In politics, you have a one-day sale. You have every customer allowed in the store for one or two minutes on that day, and you have to sell a majority or plurality of the market or you are out of business.

I know I'd be an absolutely horrendous politician.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union.

The thing that Tea Parties have to understand, you can't govern if you don't get elected.

You know I think the president has to really focus on getting elected to a second term in 2012. And I need to focus on making sure I'm accountable to the people of Missouri.

I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.

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

I ran for my first office at 25 against an incumbent city councilman. I took 55% of the vote and became the youngest councilman in the area at the time.

As I get close to my election, I want to spend more time in my district and focus on my reelection.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

I am considering running for Senate, as well as other opportunities.

Smilin' for the Presidency

Every member of Congress is shaped by his or her first election.

Go back to your constituencies and prepare for government.

I'm an elected politician. If you don't agree with me, vote for somebody else.

Honestly, if you are going to run for public office, I think it's incumbent... to speak up.

Anything can happen when people run for office.

I never thought I would run for Congress. If you look back at a certain reality TV show, you know that.