Quotes About Politics

A lot of the fake news conversation came right after the 2016 election, but it's something that had been discussed before Donald Trump ever ran for president.

My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.

I ran for Congress, just once.

Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I had told him I would stay in Government, be honored to, but not with the Air Force.

For more than a decade after the 2000 election, leading Democrats ran from their gun control past and bent over backward to assuage the fears of gun owners.

When I was 33 years old, I ran for United States Congress in New York City. I lost miserably.

When I first ran for Congress in the 1990s, my background as an openly gay Asian was one of the focal points of the campaign, and, in fact, my opponent attacked me for it.

When I first ran for office in 2010, I was 32 years old. The average age in Congress was 69. I was a brown woman whose name was Reshma Saujani - a name most people couldn't pronounce. And there was never a South Asian woman who had ever run for United States Congress before.

I ran for ninth grade class president. Came in a close second.

The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

I thought I could make a difference, so I ran for office.

I ran for president in 1996.

I don't profess to be an expert on anything, or have the memory for who ran in 1952. I am an informed American citizen, that's my position.

By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year.

When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

I ran for Congress because I want to help change the way we do business in Washington, D.C.

Dukakis ran without understanding that there was a Democratic Party out in the land, and he never did call on it.

He's a nice guy who will never change the Senate. He is the Senate. Eighteen years in politics, and he's got two cousins who are senators, too. Mark Udall's dad even ran for president.

We basically ran the Henry Bellmon campaign.

First thing that I put up in my office here at City Hall was a poster from 1971 when my mother ran for city council.

The reason I actually ran for office is because of Hillary Clinton. Everybody was telling me why I shouldn't run: I was too young, I had small children, I should start at the school board level.

I ran because somebody had to do it first. In this country, everybody is supposed to be able to run for president, but that has never really been true.

Eventually, Nixon ran a very centrist presidency, not a Goldwater conservative presidency.

The future is female right now in the Republican Party. Kellyanne Conway just ran the first successful presidential race in history as a woman. I am the second woman ever to lead the Republican National Committee.