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Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before.

— Eileen Myles

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91.

— Mario Cuomo

I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.

— Nas

Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.

— Jesse Jackson

You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

— George McGovern

I rallied against Clinton when he was in office. I didn't vote for him in '96. I didn't vote for Gore in 2000.

— Michael Moore

I was a big fan of Ronald Reagan. He was the first president I got to vote for.

— Steve Daines

The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran again in the senior year with the same result. But opportunity came ironically, or fortunately, when I returned to Indianapolis after serving in the Navy.

— Richard Lugar

✗Opposing Perspectives

I loved campaigning for Obama.

— Kate Walsh

I ran for president in 1996.

— Arlen Specter

When Bill Clinton ran in '92, and I listened to him, and I had of course known of his record from Arkansas, I found him extraordinarily inspirational, and I voted Democratic.

— Wesley Clark