If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.
Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995.
-- Jesse Jackson, (Oct 8 1941-____), US civil rights leader, minister, politician; He was the first black man to make a serious bid for the U.S. presidency in the Democratic Party's nomination races in 1983-84 and 1987-88.