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Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name on the ballot. There are many people who would do a great job, but who would never think to run. Find them. Badger them. Get them elected. They might not thank you for it, but a lot of other people will.

A candidate who tries to steer a path down the middle in an effort to 'win independents' runs the risk of convincing everyone that they have no core values. As much as - or more than - any other voters, independents want to see conviction and authenticity.

I'm running for senator because it's time for a change.

The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.

All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

Running is bad for your knees and I like to do things I actually enjoy, like going for a swim.

I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life.

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

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.

You know, it's kind of hard because I really - I see kids on their Rollerblades and their bikes, and just running around, climbing trees, and I used to do that. And I loved doing that.

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned.

I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought.

Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.