Top 100 Run For Quotes
#2. Just days after Mitt Romney suggested he might run for president, there's been a backlash. The backlash is led by Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee, and just to hedge his bets on every issue, Mitt Romney.
Conan O'Brien
#3. I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.
Barbara Boxer
#4. No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
George Bernard Shaw
#5. One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that!
Ronald Biggs
#6. Republicans can't run for office without the support of business.
Tucker Carlson
#7. He spent more time on the road to Damascus than a Syrian camel driver. And we thought nobody could fill John Kerry's flip-flops! ... [Romney's record was] "anything but conservative until he changed all the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for President."
Mike Huckabee
#8. Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years.
Sun Myung Moon
#9. There would be nothing to get me to run for president. I don't even understand how anyone would want that job at all. Although I would be able to play golf which I don't seem to have time now.
Ellen DeGeneres
#10. Maybe. We're all equals at the dark gate, no? The sands run for us all. Life is but a flicker shouting into the jaws of eternity. But it seems so damned unfair!
Glen Cook
#11. We need candidate schools to recruit more young African-Americans to run for office and more diverse law enforcement communities.
Claire McCaskill
#12. Thoreau once said if you see a man approach you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life; it is hard to restrain the impulse in talking with social engineers.
William H. Whyte
#13. As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know?
Lemmy Kilmister
#14. I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.
Barney Frank
#15. I think technology has advanced so far now that there are some cameras on the market that give film a run for its money. It's all about flexibility in capturing images, and digital or film, it doesn't matter to me.
Roger Deakins
#16. During the Japanese invasion, bombs had fallen from the sky and people could run for cover. Now, they exploded in the middle of the road, or in the fields while people were playing soccer.
Mohamed Latiff Mohamed
#17. As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It's my fatalistic streak, which I've inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes.
Ellie Goulding
#18. The last man to try to run for president advocating a tax increase was Walter Mondale. He lost 49 states in 1984, and the "I'll raise your taxes" reputation haunted him all the way to Minnesota last year, where he lost his 50th state in the Senate election.
Dick Morris
#19. You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.
Tanya Tucker
#20. If you are prepared to run for public office, you also have to be willing to accept a debate about you.
Wolfgang Schauble
#21. I wouldn't mind being a talent show judge if it didn't run for too long.
Cilla Black
#22. Trump says he wants to run for president. Why not? It wouldn't be the first time he pushed a black family out of their home.
Snoop Dogg
#23. So if the dance is five minutes long, make yourself run for perhaps eight minutes. That way, you over-train and the dance will seem easier ...
Deborah Bull
#25. You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure that growth to be sustained has to be shared, and are built on the principle that the prosperity of this world is indivisible.
Gordon Brown
#26. You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they've sold their soul to the devil so many times and stomped the guts out of enough people that they are definitely not like you and me, not even close.
David Baldacci
#27. I loved my time in Congress, but people who spend all of their time planning to run for office have very few useful skills to deploy when they finally get there.
John Sununu
#28. But to make a long story short, I decided that I was going to run, and I announced that I was going to run for president in Florida, I would be the favorite son from Florida, and that would stop Johnson and Kennedy from dividing up the state.
George Smathers
#29. This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.
George W. Bush
#30. I don't think I would be a good politician. I kid about it when I get a standing ovation. Sometimes I'll say, "I may run for Governor," but it's strictly a joke.
Liberace
#31. I wanted to give the songs a run for their money, to see if they stood on their own without a lot of accoutrements. It made more sense - and it was easier, too - to go out alone and see if these songs could get in a couple of fistfights and still be standing.
Annie E. Clark
#32. Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.
Vincent Bugliosi
#33. To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great lawyers or philanthropists or business people or work their way up the political ladder. I happened to become known from a different route.
John Glenn
#34. Looks good on paper + Tony Scott = run for the hills.
Vern
#35. AMELIA: Thank you to everyone for keeping up with me while I run for the finish line.
Amelia Hutchins
#36. 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.
Bruce Willis
#37. I have decided not to run for the U.S. Senate and instead continue my efforts to make California a better place to live, work, and raise a family. We have come a long way, but our work is not done, and neither am I.
Antonio Villaraigosa
#38. The White House is worried about Joe Biden's potential run for president, and a source says they fear that it wouldn't have the right outcome. That's right, they think he might win.
Jimmy Fallon
#39. I do yoga every morning, then I run for half an hour and take a sauna.
Antonio Banderas
#40. I run for president because I believe that we can't just save the American dream; we can expand it to reach more people and change more lives than ever before.
Marco Rubio
#41. I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.
Nancy Pelosi
#42. I don't know if I can trust again. How do I make my heart and mind work together? My heart wants to leap while my brain is saying run for my life.
A.M. Willard
#43. I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise.
Elizabeth Emken
#44. Spider Jockey - spider jockeys are spiders that have a skeleton riding them. They rarely spawn, but if they do, unless you have a lot of arrows and a huge space, you need to run for your life.
Gerone Adams
#45. Breathing, n
You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine.
Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.
David Levithan
#46. In 2012 there was a megafoolish, if well-funded, effort by a group called Americans Elect to raise an independent Cincinnatus to run for president via an Internet draft. It flopped, spectacularly.
Joe Klein
#47. I'm not going to run for Senate and I'm not going to run for Governor. I'd like to put those rumors to rest.
Timothy Griffin
#48. Anybody who runs for public office today has got to know his life or her life will be an open book. I've decided that if you want to run for public office you have to decide at the age of 5 and live accordingly.
Helen Thomas
#49. Look what's happened to Barack Obama over the last two years or George Bush for eight. It's a blood sport. But at some point I may feel the need to run for office again.
Joe Scarborough
#50. I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.
Jeffrey Kluger
#51. Running just makes me happy. I love the freedom of running. I ran until I was seven and a half months pregnant with each of my babies. When I gave birth to my first son, my doctor said I couldn't run for six weeks. I was sneaking back out after eight days.
Kim Alexis
#52. A white male Mormon millionaire was not gonna beat Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts, but someone deserved to go out there and give him a real run for his money.
Mitt Romney
#53. The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain.
Douglas Adams
#54. Give me about 10 years, I'm going to run for President. If I can squeeze in an NBA championship before that, I'll do it.
Will Smith
#55. What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?
Isaiah
#56. First I tried some Neil Diamond, thinking that if anything was going to make the undead run for the hills it would be a nice, loud rendition of Cracklin' Rosie. But those coldsickles actually seemed to enjoy it. Very disturbing.
Mike Cooley
#57. I've been outspent by my opponents every time I've run for U.S. Senate.
Russ Feingold
#58. No flicker of amusement, no hint of fear. The woman could give Rowan a run for his money for sheer iciness.
Sarah J. Maas
#59. My mother at the age of 65 decided she was going to run for mayor. She had never run for public office, and she decided she wanted to try and do some things for the community.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#60. Here's a little known fact - Arnold is the first body builder to run for governor since Janet Reno.
David Letterman
#61. If God told Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann, and Herman Cain to run for president, then God obviously wants Barack Obama to win.
Randi Rhodes
#62. When I'm scared, my natural state is to hide and run for cover.
Geri Halliwell
#63. In 1996, President Clinton put together a detailed agenda called 'A Bridge to the 21st Century' that told voters why, in his words, 'rehire him' for another four years. That's the right way for an incumbent president to run for re-election.
Al From
#64. Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run for some future takeover of the state.
Phillip Lopate
#65. I want to run for eternal glory and track is great, but it's not what life is all about.
Allyson Felix
#66. I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.
Zach Galifianakis
#67. Did you see the frightened ones,
Did you hear the falling bombs,
Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter in the promise of a brave new world unfurlled beaneath the clear blue skies.
Good bye blue skies.
Roger Waters
#68. I hate to create cynicism about politicians. We just need to invade. Regular people need to run for office and keep their balls and ovaries intact.
Jane Fonda
#69. It was very constraining, much more than I ever would have thought, to run for governor.
Christine Gregoire
#70. Tonight, the daughter of an immigrant from Italy has been chosen to run for vice president in the new land my father came to love.
Geraldine Ferraro
#71. Don't waste another minute dealing with a toxic, negative, energy-draining person. Some people are wired for negativity. They love being argumentative, combative and abusive. Run for your life as quickly as possible.
Les Brown
#72. I didn't run for mayor because everything was going great in Baltimore in 1999.
Martin O'Malley
#73. Paul Ryan announced that after a lot of thought, and talking it over with family and friends, that he is not going to run for president in 2016. I'm telling you, this announcement sent shock waves through no one.
David Letterman
#74. This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.
Haile Gebrselassie
#75. I turned, ran, fired the shotgun into the air and shouted, "Bomb! There's a bomb in the fountain! Everybody run for your lives! Please don't not panic!
David Wong
#76. I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.
Harriet Harman
#77. Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.
Philip Roth
#79. She carefully placed the little crab back in the sand and nudged it toward the surf. Run for your life, Pinchy. I've seen the way this man eats.
Olivia Cunning
#80. It's a very tough thing to run for office, but it's also the way the American people get to know you.
Jim Webb
#81. I never thought I would run for Congress. If you look back at a certain reality TV show, you know that.
Sean Duffy
#82. There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.
Tim Robbins
#83. When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much they admire them, how grateful they are.
Mark Shields
#84. We all know by now that Barack Obama is not a patriot. After all, he doesn't always wear a flag pin, and he objects to the idea that he should be required to in order to run for office.
Will Thomas
#85. I want my movies to play in movie theaters. While festivals can fulfill a part of that, there's nothing like getting a week-long run for your movie. It's becoming increasingly difficult to get that.
Robert Greene
#86. I think that it's important if you run for President that you have to make those important decisions. And your father, if he can help, probably, he helps just by being your father without getting intimately involved.
Birch Bayh
#87. The things that led me to run for office - trying to figure out how we create an economy where everybody's got a fair shot and if you work hard, you can achieve your dreams.
Barack Obama
#88. I knew the President would run for reelection in 1984. Why not? Actors love sequels ... and returns.
Bob Hope
#89. Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
Ayn Rand
#90. Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#91. I focused solely on the sprints, dedicated my time there, got in the weight room, just really did everything I could to make sure I would be in the best position to run for gold.
Allyson Felix
#92. You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
#93. Sarah Palin has decided not to run for President and go straight to the quitting part.
Andy Borowitz
#94. I had a chance to go on the Supreme Court of the United States, and my whole family was more disappointed in my deciding not to do that than in my deciding not to run for president - much more.
Mario Cuomo
#95. Sometimes you're left with only 1 choice: Take what's yours and run for you life.
Jennifer Elisabeth
#96. If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency,
Eugene McCarthy
#97. Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties.
George Clooney
#98. Donald Trump says that he will not run for president. You know why? He can't find his birth certificate.
Jay Leno
#99. When I worked in a medical practice, our practice provided the insurance. When I retired the next day to run for public office to run for Congress, I had to pay first dollar.
Phil Roe
#100. According to a new poll, nearly six out of 10 Republicans want Mitt Romney to run for president. So do 10 out of 10 Democrats.
Conan O'Brien
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