In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year, and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.
I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.
I love my parents, and I want my mother to be president.
I think my father thought I might be president of the United States. I think he would've been satisfied with secretary of state. I'm a foreign policy person, and to have a chance to serve my country as the nation's chief diplomat at a time of peril and consequence, that was enough.
I have decided not to run for president.
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.
When I was growing up, I was told you could be anything you want to be, but I didn't really believe that because you couldn't be president. Like, I knew that; we never had a black president.
I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president.
I grew up believing that I could be the president of the United States. I was told I could be whatever I wanted.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.