Sheldon Whitehouse Quotes

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.

I am considering running for Senate, as well as other opportunities.

Would I consider a run for political office? Yes.

I really was going to run for Congress.

Today, I'm a candidate for the office of president of the United States of America. My kids can't believe I just said that.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing.

After thinking carefully about how I can best help my fellow Minnesotans, I have decided to not seek election for a different office in 2014. The warm encouragement from many people to run for U.S. senator or the governorship was deeply humbling.

I want to win and I want to be in office.

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

One of the questions that I often get is, 'Why are you running to be President?'. To Be President! What did I miss? I'm not running to go to Disneyland.

I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.

The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I'm running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is... I want to win a Nobel Peace prize.

I was approached by friends who encouraged me to run for an open seat - attorney general of Michigan. It was a big risk.

I don't think running for office is anything I'm prepared for or could even prepare myself for.

There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.

The Thinking Fella Votes McKellar!

I never had asked, and never should ask, the vote of any person for any office.

I'm not running for any office so whether I'm running with one man or 18 men is nobody's business.

Fellow citizens, I offer myself as a candidate before you, for the office of governor. I do not pretend to be a man of extraordinary talents .... Nevertheless, I do think I can govern you pretty well. I do not think it will take a very smart man to govern you ... I do not think you will be very had to govern.

I actually think you should run for president if you're going to be president, if you want to be president. I'm not running for president. I made that decision, consciously, not to.

Honestly, if you are going to run for public office, I think it's incumbent... to speak up.

I hope Paper Boi runs for president. I hope he does. Governor, mayor, senator, I hope he does it all. You better believe it.

I am running for the U.S. Senate so that your kids and mine can continue to live in the kind of country that gave my family the blessings of liberty and freedom that only America offers.

I'd like to be a U.S. senator from Tennessee.