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I'm not running for president. -- Elizabeth Warren
The last time I was in a gym, Dukakis was running for president. -- Daniel Breaker
The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit. -- Darrell Hammond
It's always valuable for someone running for president... to have as much bipartisan support as possible. -- Robert Dallek
As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date. -- Nora Ephron
Howard Phillips of the Constitution Party asked me to consider seriously running for president in 2008 and I am doing so. -- Jerome Corsi
I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok. -- Dick Gephardt
If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91. -- Mario Cuomo
A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.' -- John Bolton
I have absolutely no interest in running for president again. None. None. I mean, I know that's hard for some people to believe, but, you know, I just don't. -- Hillary Clinton
I've been a strong financial and political supporter of, first, President Bush Sr. when he was running for president, and even when he ran for president a time or two and failed. -- Kenneth Lay
The most important questions for anybody thinking of running for president are not 'Will you run and can you win?' There is, 'What is your vision for America? And can you lead us there?' -- Hillary Clinton
I'm dead ass running for president in 2016. -- Waka Flocka Flame
I'm not particularly interested in running for president, -- Fred Thompson
I think running for president causes more stress. -- Donald Trump
I'm proud to be a woman running for president. -- Hillary Clinton
I have absolutely no interest in running for president again. -- Hillary Clinton
It's rare for a first lady to be running for president. -- Gwen Ifill
Hillary Clinton skated because she's running for president. She clearly violated the law. -- Rudy Giuliani
Donald Trump removed all doubt. He is running for president as a fascist demagogue. -- Rachel Maddow
I'm not running for president to be somebody, I'm running for president to do something! -- Bobby Jindal
People roll their eyes at the idea of Kanye West running for president. I do not. -- Christopher Michael Cillizza
Donald Trump came out as a birther, which is Republican for, 'I'm running for president.' -- Lewis Black
We cannot excuse the fact that he [Donald Trump] is running for president. He's a frontrunner. -- Donna Brazile
I'm running for president because there's no way we can elect Hillary Clinton to continue the policies. -- Marco Rubio
I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government. -- Rand Paul
Hillary Clinton is running for president. This time around, she promises to be warm and approachable. Like me. -- David Letterman
America can't succeed unless you succeed. That is why I am running for president of the United States. -- Hillary Clinton
Insiders say that Trump is running for president as a publicity stunt. That's not the Donald Trump I know. -- David Letterman
I don't think anyone has ever announced running for president that they want to change the Bill of Rights. -- George Will
Jimmy used to drink liquor. Now he's running for president and he drinks Scotch, and I've never trusted a Scotch-drinker. -- Billy Carter
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When a guy running for president will not support the troops, not support veterans, not support teachers, that's really important. -- Tim Kaine
I don't want to describe the hate mail we've gotten. On why she was fearful of her husband running for president. -- Alma Powell
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Donald Trump announced that he is not running for president. He would rather spend his time making Gary Busey sell Snapple on the street. -- David Letterman
Why am I running for president? Well, my wife, Cindy, says it is because I sustainedseveral severe blows to the head in prison camp. -- John McCain
If you're a Christian and you're running for president and you want to make this into a theocracy, I'm not going to support you. -- Benjamin Carson
It's Friday. That's one reason to celebrate. Also, it's the first day in a long time when no one declared they're running for president. -- Jimmy Fallon
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Donald Trump's not politically correct. Although you are running for president, you should be politically correct. But there is also the expression of an artist. -- Russell Simmons
When you're running for president you have to take some risks and you've got to show people something fresh and you've got to stay interesting. -- David Brooks
Mitt Romney is not going to be running for president. So you know what that means. We are getting closer and closer to 'President Trump.' -- David Letterman
Donald Trump is talking about running for president. He hasn't made an announcement, but I want to tell you something. The fake suspense is killing me. -- David Letterman
Ted Cruz raised over a million dollars after announcing that he's running for president. Which is why today RadioShack announced that it is also running for president. -- Jimmy Fallon
When you're running for president, I think you have an obligation to be healthy. I just don't think you can do the work if you're not healthy. -- Donald Trump
I'm not going to change why I'm running.I'm running for president in 2016, and I'm running because we can't afford another four years like the last eight years. -- Marco Rubio
Trump is running for president and he's wasting no time getting down to business. In fact, just after his announcement he demanded to see Jeb Bush's birth certificate. -- Jimmy Fallon
And it's a little - very humbling to think that running for president of the United States is - for a kid from Brooklyn, it's quite a step. -- Rudy Giuliani
For 40 years, everyone running for president has released their tax returns. You can go and see nearly, I think, 39, 40 years of our tax returns, but everyone has done it. -- Hillary Clinton
Guess who's running for president? Jeb Bush. Jeb was governor of Florida and he speaks fluent Spanish, which raises the question: What language did his brother speak? What was that? -- David Letterman
Mitt Romney is running for president again. That will be attempt No. 3. Well, everybody needs a hobby. He's almost certainly running, and I'm almost certainly retiring, so I don't care. -- David Letterman
Donald Trump isn't really running for president, come on! This is obviously a new reality show, Celebrity Presidential Apprentice. It ends with the incompetent celebrity being berated, humiliated, then unceremoniously fired. -- Michael R. Burch
The film 'Boyhood' won the Golden Globe for best drama. It follows one guy's journey over the course of 12 years - or as Mitt Romney calls that, 'running for president.' -- Jimmy Fallon
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is expected to announce tomorrow that he is running for president, making him Hillary Clinton's only Democratic challenger so far. Or as Hillary put it, 'Oooo, appetizers!' -- Jimmy Fallon
Donald Trump got himself very far to the left. When he was considering running for president in 2000, he was for a 13 percent wealth tax on wealthy people to retire the national debt. -- Chris Hayes
He glosses over and doesn't even tell the truth. ... Here is a guy who is the ultimate flip-flopper running for president, and he's attacking me for not being principled? That doesn't wash. -- Rick Santorum
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Whether it's running for president or trying to win an Oscar, campaigning is a must and relationships are a big part of that. It's about who you know to rally behind you. -- Ryan Kavanaugh
I`m running for president because everyday Americans and their families need a champion, and I want to be that champion. I want to make the words middle class mean something again. -- Hillary Clinton
I`m running for president because I want to change the direction of this country, and it will require me for the time being to miss some votes in the U.S. -- Marco Rubio
I want my country to be trusted. I don't want anybody running for president telling the unions what they want to hear at the expense of the credibility of the United States. -- Brian Williams
Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him. -- Hunter S. Thompson
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Donald Trump was, you know, obviously a very important businessman, billionaire, he was a reality show star and I think that he has had more success running for president than probably even he imagined. -- Joy-Ann Reid
I think Donald Trump is new. He's a business guy running for president. So, you're not going to see a conventional campaign because he is not a conventional politician. He's not even a politician. -- Paul Ryan
I'm running for president, because as I go around this nation, I talk to a lot of people. And what I hear is people's concern that the economy we have is a rigged economy. -- Bernie Sanders
Texas Senator Ted Cruz announced he is running for president. Ted Cruz was born in Canada, his father fled to the United States from Cuba, and yet Ted Cruz is against immigration. Isn't that odd? -- David Letterman
I am running for president because it is obvious that no Democrat or Republican is ever going to stop the relentless growth of the federal government. only a Libertarian is going to set you free. -- Harry Browne
Donald Trump may be running for president. He said he is sick and tired of the rest of the world laughing at the United States. Well, President Trump will certainly put an end to that. -- David Letterman
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If someone is doing something crazy - or what I think is crazy - I'm watching, but also am I keeping the actual seriousness of someone actually running for president in my mind all the time? -- Maria Thayer
Well, the big story -- Hillary Clinton will be running for president in 2008. You know why I think she's running? I think she finally wants to see what it's like to sleep in the president's bed. -- Jay Leno
Here's why Sarah Palin says she won't be running for president. She says she can be more effective at getting others elected by not running. And I thought, well, that's true, because in 2008 she got Obama elected. -- David Letterman
Were it not for the transformative love of Jesus Christ, I would have been raised by a single mom without my father in the household, this is our fight, and that is why I'm running for president. -- Ted Cruz
When you're focused at the task at hand and you believe in the man who is running for president and the man who is running for vice president, we just want it to be objective and fair. -- Kellyanne Conway
One of the reasons that Im running for president is I want to make sure that every young man and woman who puts on the uniform of the United States respects highly the president of the United States. -- Rick Perry
I want to say that I cannot be intimidated or stopped. In order to put an end to various attempts to get rid of me as a possible candidate, I want to say that I'm running for president. -- Vitali Klitschko
By accident Jeb Bush announced that he was running for president. And then he said, 'No, not yet. OK, I made a mistake.' And then later in the day, by accident, he called Hillary and congratulated her. -- David Letterman
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Rand Paul is officially running for president. He even revealed his campaign slogan, which is 'Defeat the Washington machine. Unleash the American dream.' It's hard to tell if he's running for president or doing an infomercial for Bowflex. -- Jimmy Fallon
Ohio Governor John Kasich became the 16th Republican to announce that he is running for president. During his speech he referred to Jesus Christ, which is ironic because so did Americans when they heard another Republican was running for president. -- Jimmy Fallon
Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny. -- Donna Rice
Here's some exciting news - according to The New York Post, both Al Gore and John Kerry are thinking of running for president in 2008. Gore and Kerry again! Political experts say it's too early to tell who would lose bigger! -- Jay Leno
Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny. -- Donna Rice
I am not a spokesperson for the church and the church is not a spokesperson for the United States of America. I'm running for president and I'm running to uphold the Constitution, which has a strict separation of church and state. -- John F. Kerry
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I am running for president as a Democrat. And if elected, not only do I hope to bring forth a major change in national priorities, but let me be frank, I do want to see major changes in the Democratic Party. -- Bernie Sanders
There's nothing easy about running for president, I can tell you. It's tough, it's nasty, it's mean, it's vicious, it's beautiful. When you win, it's beautiful. And we are going to start - we are going to start winning for our country. -- Donald Trump
Donald Trump announced that he's running for president. During his speech he told the crowd that if elected he would be 'the greatest jobs president that God ever created.' Then God said, 'Hey, don't drag me into this publicity stunt.' -- Jimmy Fallon
Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same running for president of the United States - that I could make a really big, positive difference. -- Gary Johnson
When Ronald Reagan spoke a thing aloud, he believed it forever and for always. By the time he started running for president, in 1976, he had already developed an unwavering and steadfast faith in the correctness of whatever came out of his mouth. -- Rachel Maddow
Jeb Bush's brother Neil said that their mother has 'come around' to the idea of Jeb running for president in 2016. Because if there's anything that says you're qualified to be president, it's your own mom saying, 'I guess you could do it.' -- Jimmy Fallon
In terms of what Hillary Clinton, who's running for president, thinks about Catholics and the value more broadly of having a faith background, I can tell you she views at it as a plus, just as she views her own Methodism as a plus. -- Tim Kaine
Today Carly Fiorina announced that she is running for president. Someone else bought 'CarlyFiorina.org' and posted 30,000 sad emoticons to represent all the people she laid off at Hewlett-Packard. I haven't seen that many sad, blank faces in one place since the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight. -- Jimmy Fallon
Be careful about anybody who's running for president who's going to tell you that they're going to build a wall across the entire southern border. It's not going to happen. It is the wrong message to send. And it's not going to be effective. -- Chris Christie
Donald Trump's not backing down. Yesterday he said he doesn't need to be lectured by the other Republican candidates, who he says have no business running for president. Not to be confused with Donald Trump, who ran for president and now has no business. -- Jimmy Fallon
When you're running for president, you're a guest in the living room for four years. And if people don't think you're going to be around the living room as a pleasant experience, they're not going to vote for you even if they agree with you. -- David Brooks
For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base. -- Robert Scheer
The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States. -- Mitt Romney
Over on the Democratic side, Martin O'Malley recently spoke about the need for Wall Street reform and said that he isn't running for president to be quote, 'wined and dined' by executives. Then Chris Christie said, 'And I am also not running to be wined.' -- Jimmy Fallon
The fact that women have been moving forward, that a woman was running for president, that we had a black president - I think there was, without a doubt, a whitelash and a complete backlash against the liberation of women, against the power of people of color. -- Eve Ensler
When my father, Ronald Reagan, was running for president in 1980, my mother, Nancy, traveled with him on the campaign trail, but she did not give speeches or even many interviews. She never stood in front of a group of reporters and expounded on her views and opinions. -- Patti Davis
Rand Paul is taking a week-long break from talking to the media to spend time with his family before he officially announces that he is running for president. Because nothing motivates you to be on the road for two straight years like a week alone with your family. -- Jimmy Fallon
Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it. -- Mark Russell
I played a father a few times. You don't have to shoot heroin to play a heroin addict ... I'm not running for president but I could play a candidate. Most of the time, you don't really have to have those things in your life to understand what they're like. -- George Clooney
Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder. -- Mark McKinnon
Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President. -- Samuel L. Jackson
Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III. -- Walter F. Mondale
I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President. -- Arlen Specter
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
The past several months I have been able to meet with people across this country. One thing is clear: America craves for real solutions to the problems we face. That's why I'm running for President of the United States. -- Herman Cain
I went from being a senator, a young senator, to being considered for vice president, running for president, being a vice presidential candidate, and becoming a national public figure. All of which fed a self-focus, an egotism, a narcissism that leads you to believe that you can do whatever you want. -- John Edwards
Hillary Clinton could say she was a woman and running for president. And Sarah Palin could say she was a woman and running for vice-president. But Obama couldn't say, 'I'm black and I'm running for president.' It couldn't come out of his mouth. He couldn't say that because, if he did, he'd lose votes. -- Paul Mooney
Running for president is the new selfie. -- James Gleick
Running for president was a good decision. -- George W. Bush

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