I believe that if you want to be president of the United States, you run for president. You don't run for president with some eject button in the cockpit that allows you to go on an exit ramp if it doesn't work out.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I ran because somebody had to do it first. In this country, everybody is supposed to be able to run for president, but that has never really been true.
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
I'm not running for president.
I'm not going to run for president. No way, no how.
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.
How a candidate runs shapes how a president governs.
Being president, you may have more power than anyone else in the country, but you quickly discover that you have much, much less than you thought you'd have going in. You're hamstrung in ways you never dreamed of.
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
If I don't run for president, we'll all be OK.