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“Many of you know that I got my name, Barack, from my father. What you may not know is Barack is actually Swahili for 'That One.' And I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for president.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left.”

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Author:John Podesta

“There are a lot of other people out there that some of us wish had run for President, but they didn't. I think Mitt Romney would be a fine President, and he'd be way better than the guy who's there right now.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“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.”

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Author:Rick Santorum

“Mitt Romney's losing at this point in a big way. If something's going to come out, get it out in a hurry. I do not know why - given that Mr. Romney knew the day that [Sen. John] McCain lost in 2008 that he was going to run for president again - that he didn't get all of this out and tidy up some of his offshore accounts and all the rest.”

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Author:George Will

“Running a business is not the same as being president of the United States.”

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Author:Rick Santorum

“Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? The fact is, you ran in '94 and lost. That's why you weren't serving in the Senate with Rick Santorum. The fact is, you had a very bad re-election rating, you dropped out of office, you had been out of state for something like 200 days preparing to run for president. You didn't have this interlude of citizenship while you thought about what you do. You were running for president while you were governor.”

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Author:Newt Gingrich

“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.”

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Author:Mike Huckabee

“You know, that's the very least that the American voters can expect is that when you're running for President that you outline what you would do and what you would do differently from this - from the President of the United States.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“The first thing you need to run for President is a budget of around $20 million dollars a day.”

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Author:S. Robson Walton

“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.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“[It's] Rare for a first lady to be running for president.”

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Author:Gwen Ifill

“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.”

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Author:Rudy Giuliani

“I think he intends to run for president... I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters.”

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Author:Pat Toomey

“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.”

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Author:David Letterman

“I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“Jeb Bush may run for President. Bush presidencies are like 'Caddyshack' movies. They should have stopped with one.”

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Author:David Letterman

“The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only thing is it took 'em so long to think of any of 'em. We ought to have plans in case of depression, just like we do in case of fire, 'Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit.'”

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Author:Will Rogers

“The only thing that can be expected from the next US president is more war, more murder, and more oppression of the gullible American people. People as uninformed and as gullible as Americans have no future. Americans are a dead people that history is about to run over.”

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Author:Paul Craig Roberts

“The great presidents never forget the principle of the republic and seek to preserve and enhance them – in the long run– without undermining the needs of the moment. Bad presidents simply do what is expedient, heedless of principles. But the worst presidents are those who adhere to the principles regardless of what the fortunes of the moment demand.”

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Author:George Friedman

“In 2004, I was the new President of Bravo. I had never run a commercial cable network before…we needed a hit.”

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Author:Lauren Zalaznick

“I have my disagreements with President Obama, but President Obama has run an amazingly scandal-free administration, not only he himself, but the people around him. He's chosen people who have been pretty scandal-free.”

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Author:Mark Shields

“All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.”

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Author:Alistair Cooke

“I feel like I could run for President. People often laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I could be in the White House.”

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Author:Will Smith

“I have absolutely no interest in running for president again.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“America can't succeed unless you succeed. That is why I am running for president of the United States.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“I think part of running for president, people want to know who you are, what influenced you, what motivates you, not just where you stand on issues but what is in your heart and what were things in your life that led you to believe the things you believe in, and fight for.”

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Author:Karen Finney

“I think my dad would make an incredible president, and it would be great if he'd run again. But personally, for our family, part of me is glad that he didn't. We lost our mother recently, and we need to focus on ourselves.”

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Author:Alexandra Kerry

“I do not choose to run for President in 1928.”

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Book:Calvin Coolidge says: dispatches written by former-president Coolidge and syndicated to newspapers in 1930-1931 : gathered for issuance in book form on the one-hundredth anniversary of Mr. Coolidge's birth, 4 July 1972

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“President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself.”

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Author:William J. Clinton

“If I were to run for president, it's because I believe in our country.”

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Author:Bobby Jindal

“Oftentimes the fascinating thing is that people who are seen as commanding figures at the moment that they were considered for President and did not run turned out to be treated by history as much more minor figures politically.”

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Author:Stephen Ambrose

“It's so funny that people think I actually ran for President. I am maybe the most un-political person you're ever going to meet. When I put "Elected" out, it was definitely a satire... "Alice Cooper for President"... when everybody realized I was running against Nixon, you known, even on a joke level, I think I got a lot of write-in votes.”

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Author:Alice Cooper

“I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in, or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president.”

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Book:Worth the Fighting For: A Memoir

Source: Worth the Fighting For: A Memoir

“It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us -- our governments, our business, our private lives. Most legislators are lawyers; they make our laws. Most presidents, governors, commissioners, along with their advisers and brain-trusters are lawyers; they administer our laws. All the judges are lawyers; they interpret and enforce our laws. There is no separation of powers where the lawyers are concerned. There is only a concentration of all government power -- in the lawyers.”

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Author:Fred Rodell

“How can you run for president if you dont know the job description?”

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Author:Mohamed ElBaradei

“Lindsey Graham is now the seventh Republican running for president. If you're keeping score, that's basically one Republican candidate for every two Republican voters.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“Hillary Clinton announced she's running for president. Yesterday in Ohio, Hillary popped into a Chipotle and she ordered a burrito bowl with chips and salsa. And on her way out she said, 'That locks down the Hispanic vote.'”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“Jeb Bush welcomed his fourth grandchild. The new Bush grandchild is happy, healthy, and will be running for president in 2048.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“Hillary Clinton is not the first woman to run for president. That title belongs to Victoria Woodhull, who ran for president in 1872. Her running mate was a young, scrappy John McCain.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“Marco Rubio announced he's running for president. Fun fact: Marco Rubio's wife is a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader. In other words, she knows how to generate fake enthusiasm for someone who's not going to win.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“Texas senator and tea party favorite Ted Cruz announced he's running for president. He pledged to lead America boldly forward into the 1950s.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“People are questioning if Ted Cruz can legally run for president because he was born in Canada. And the last thing we want to do is pave the way for a President Bieber.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“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.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“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.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“Yesterday was the New York City Marathon. The marathon was won in record time by a Democrat candidate running away from President Obama.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“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.”

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Author:David Letterman

“Former President Bill Clinton is on the program tonight. He says that while his wife runs for president, he would like to stay out of the limelight. Well, he's certainly come to the right place. He'll be fine here.”

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Author:David Letterman

“Our guest tonight is Michelle Obama, first lady of the United States. She's here to announce her run for president.”

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Author:David Letterman