Candidate Quotes - page 2

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate. (David Frum)
Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence. View quote
Reince Priebus
Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life. View quote
Alan Rudolph
You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate. View quote
Antonio Villaraigosa
Every time I would give a talk, someone would say, 'You ought to go into politics.' I prefer to call it government leadership. My life has taken me to places where I have experiences that I think I can share. A lot of times, we see people who are career politicians. I'm not the conventional candidate, nor do I want to be. View quote
Brad Wenstrup
Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture. View quote
Christine Pelosi
George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate. View quote
Ed Gillespie
I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff. View quote
Ezra Cornell
I consider myself an excellent candidate... because I care. View quote
Frank Vincent
It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked. View quote
Greta Van Susteren
The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer. (Horatio Alger)
Mo Udall didn't want the presidency bad enough. He was too sane. He was a marvelous guy, but you had the feeling there was another Udall outside his body watching the candidate Udall who was too extravagant, telling him to cut it out. View quote
Jack Germond
In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history. View quote
Juan Williams
The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought. View quote
Mary Cheney
I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory. View quote
Mickey Kaus
My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life. View quote
Nick Cassavetes
One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions. View quote
Pierre Salinger
Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance. View quote
Richard V. Allen
The best way to appreciate our political process is to volunteer for a campaign and support a candidate you believe in. View quote
Rob McKenna
Basically what they're saying is, if you want to be on TV, if you want to be a credible candidate, you've got to buy ads. And if you're not buying ads, you're not a credible candidate, we don't cover you. View quote
Robert McChesney
Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment. (Ron Fournier)
The elections clearly showed me that a suitable Indian candidate has as good a chance as any Englishman, or even some advantages over an Englishman, for there is a general and genuine desire among English electors to give to India any help in their power. View quote
Dadabhai Naoroji
I've seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn't believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don't want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign. View quote
Harry S. Truman
The habit of using ardent spirit, by men in public office, has occasioned more injury to the public service, and more trouble to me, than any other circumstance which has occurred in the internal concerns of the country, during my administration. And were I to commence my administration again, with the knowledge which from experience I have acquired, the first question which I would ask, with regard to every candidate for public office, should be, "Is he addicted to the use of ardent spirit?" View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten. View quote
Dick Gregory