Meghan McCain Quotes

The hardest thing about a presidential election is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Candidates run on the strength of their ideas, not the weight of their wallets.

There's nothing more exhilarating than being out on the campaign trail.

The only bus tours to political events I ever went on with my father were when he was running for president. Why else would you be touring the nation in a bus?

I loved campaigning.

It isn't that I was born thinking I had to be president. I'm getting a lot of encouragement to run from people across the country. I don't believe this is a rash decision.

Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years.

I loved campaigning for Obama.

People can expect to see a lot of me - I'm not too proud to stand on corners and hold my campaign signs.

I went on the road with Hillary Rodham Clinton when she was out campaigning.

I lost my first run for office, but I developed a great love for grassroots politics.

If you run for public office today you must be prepared for a massive invasion of privacy.

A political campaign is a movement. It's built around a single candidate. It will evaporate when he or she gets elected.

[Describing a presidential campaign:] A three year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.

You can't win an election with money alone.

Honestly, I just don’t see it [running for the Presidency]. I tried it once…. You can go out with me to Iowa. You wouldn’t believe it. You’d never go to Iowa again.

There's a lot of work to be done if you're going to run for president or if you're going to run for re-election in a state as big as Florida.

I've always done party building and party fundraising.

This Court now concludes that independent [political] expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.

John McCain has not been president of the United States. He ran. He ran a spirited campaign. We lost. I hated to see us lose, but there were a lot of things working against us.

Running for president is a contact sport.

I don't think people realize how life-altering running for president is.

Nobody ever wins the first time they run for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win their first bid for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win without taking lobbyists' money. No one's ever supposed to defeat an incumbent. No one's ever supposed to run a grassroots campaign without running any ads on television. We did all of those things.

I started my campaign out of a Trader Joe's bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.