Quotes About The Presidential Race

#1. I am now a member of the private sector. I'm happy. I've got a little foundation. You never say never, but I may have had my last race and that was the Presidential race. I think that you only get one shot.

Bill Richardson

#2. Rick Perry dropped out of the presidential race. When asked what went wrong, Perry said, I guess America is not ready to elect a dumb guy from Texas. But in time.

Conan O'Brien

#3. Republicans are having trouble luring Gov. Chris Christie into the presidential race. They should try pie.

David Letterman

#4. It should be heart-breaking to every American that we have a frontrunner in the presidential race that suggests there will be a religious test for anybody who wishes to come to our shores.

Joe Biden

#5. But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.

Donna Rice

#6. Marco Rubio's presidential campaign has raised $40 million in the last week. When he heard that, Rubio said, 'Hey, any chance I can drop out of the race and just keep the 40 million?'

Jimmy Fallon

#7. No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.

Dick Morris

#8. You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.

Yogi Berra

#9. She kept me from living in back alleys and going back to drugs. I paid her back, but I owed her a lot more than the money. Emily saved my life." Buck Jamison in Goodbye Emily

Michael Murphy

#10. Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.

William Howard Taft

#11. Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here.

Jimmy Doolittle

#12. The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It's perfect.

Dick Morris

#13. To become an effective radiation researcher, you must develop the ability to discern fact from fiction.

Steven Magee

#14. Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the logo patches of their corporate sponsors?

Jim Hightower

#15. The night before I began my career as a presidential campaign reporter, in September 2007, I finished Theodore White's 'The Making of the President,' the classic account of the 1960 race, which opened up a new era of campaign reporting.

Michael Hastings

#16. Instead of making people victims of people who are successful, we should be telling people, 'Look, you are having a hard time, I feel bad for you. Let's look at what you're doing, let's teach you how to succeed. Let's give you the tools to succeed as opposed to turning everybody into victims.

Jon Lovitz

#17. Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

Lamar Alexander

#18. My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.

Neil Diamond

#19. Over the years our research team has repeatedly found that chronic emotional abuse and neglect can be just as devastating as physical abuse and sexual molestation.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#20. I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.

Grover Cleveland

#21. As the 2016 presidential race kicks off, candidates on both sides of the aisle are promising to stand up for the middle class. Voters deserve to know that anyone who champions Obamacare cannot honestly say she or he is also a champion of middle-class Americans.

John Barrasso

#22. Compassion is a two way street.

Frank Capra

#23. Creating the next level of results requires the next level of thinking.

Rory Vaden

#24. We are going to build a wall. You're going to pay for the wall.

Donald J. Trump

#25. I felt love. Right there, in the kitchen. And I felt relief.

David Levithan

#26. I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.

George W. Bush

#27. Things that are real are given and received in Silence. God has been everlastingly working in Silence, unobserved, unheard, except by those who experience His Infinite Silence.

Meher Baba

#28. In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.

Baron Hill

#29. If I could have taken Ari's pain, I would. Pain and scars, however, were the two things everyone carried themselves.

J.C. Nelson

#30. It is amateurs who have one big bright beautiful idea that they can never abandon. Professionals know that they have to produce theory after theory before they are likely to hit the jackpot.

Francis Crick

#31. Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Sivananda Saraswati

#32. Um, yeah. For instance, take, you know, take, for instance, the issue of -- I'm drawing a blank, and I hate it when I do that, particularly on television.
-- potential McCain VP candidate Mark Sanford, asked on CNN to name differences in economic policy between Bush and McCain

Mark Sanford

#33. [O]nce demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn't much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on the candidate's mood.

George Packer

#34. Sarah Palin has managed to use her failed vice presidential run to put herself in a position of power and influence. Joe Biden won the race and he hasn't been able to put himself in a position of power and influence.

Craig Ferguson

#35. Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later.

Michael Medved