Candidates For President Quotes

#1. There is no question that I would be the better president. But as for the campaign, are Americans ready for a general election in which both major party candidates are ADD? Quite frankly, it could provide an opening for a third party candidate, maybe someone backed by the evil Koch brothers.

Joe Biden

#2. I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled.

Lloyd Cutler

#3. Donald Trump's not backing down. Yesterday he said he doesn't need to be lectured by the other Republican candidates, who he says have no business running for president. Not to be confused with Donald Trump, who ran for president and now has no business.

Jimmy Fallon

#4. Is Romney a tea party candidate? I'd probably say that he's the least of the candidates running for president right now that would be considered a tea party candidate.

Tim Scott

#5. As a candidate, Clinton had - as all candidates do - torn into his predecessor for coddling China and promised that he would get tough on China's human rights abuses. As president, Clinton had - as all presidents do - come to see that the reality was a bit more complicated.

Michael Tomasky

#6. The leading non-establishment Republican candidate for president, Donald Trump, is just sailing past [establishment Republican candidates] in the polls. He is still surging. He is basically killing them all.

Melissa Harris-Perry

#7. I'm not just a candidate, I'm the President

Barack Obama

#8. The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.

Francois Englert

#9. I have a plate on my neck. I had my neck fused.

Jennifer Grey

#10. Jesus had two Dads and he turned out okay.

River Jaymes

#11. As John Maxwell has written, "You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything."9

Greg McKeown

#12. If it were up to the candidates for president on the Republican side, we would be driving foreign cars. They would have let the auto industry in America go down the tubes.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#13. The Republican candidates clashed on terrorism, immigration and foreign policy in their fifth debate.They all said President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton have not kept America safe.

Renee Montagne

#14. Sartre claimed that hell is other people," I said. "He never saw no TV game show," Hawk said.

Robert B. Parker

#15. With the millions of listeners to 'Coast to Coast AM,' I get constant feedback from people who are not happy with the current candidates. Maybe I will run for president in 2012.

George Noory

#16. Don't forgive your enemies for their sake - do it for your sake.

Bill Bartmann

#17. Both candidates for president talk about balancing the budget ten years from now. Even if they win, they won't be in office then.

Virgil Goode

#18. Lord knows dreams are hard to follow, but don't let anyone tear them away.

Mariah Carey

#19. Senate Democrats blocked President Obama's trade bill yesterday because they're worried it could hurt jobs. It's not an issue for Republicans, since they've all found work as presidential candidates.

Jimmy Fallon

#20. President Bush is not fazed by other candidates' war records. He said, I may have not fought in Vietnam, but I created one.

Craig Kilborn

#21. Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember the 'Phil Gramm for President' campaign. I thought that was the worst thing in the history of the world, but Rick Perry was possibly worse.

Gail Collins

#22. I think President's candidates need shock collars or something.

Ted Cruz

#23. Because of our situation, God has given us an opportunity to almost transcend our gender, which gives us a vision and sensitivity that other people don't have. They think that being white and male is going to save the world; but life is not The Lion King.

Jason Reeves

#24. If the munchkin, whose face I used to wash, tries to explain to us what a sixty-niner is, I'm going to report myself to child protection.

Melina Marchetta

#25. I think people are looking for a president who has views and who sticks to those views. So, I think Governor Romney, Governor Perry, Governor Huntsman are all terrific candidates. I think we got a chance to elect a real, executive leader.

Lamar Alexander

#26. President Obama, by the way, has set a Guinness World Record as the fastest person to get a million Twitter followers. Obama now has as many followers as the Republicans have presidential candidates.

Conan O'Brien

#27. I would not be President because I do not aspire to be President. But l'm sure that a woman will be President. When? I don't know. It depends. I don't think the woods are full of candidates today.

Ella T. Grasso

#28. Journalists become candidates for cardiac arrest when they see or hear an African American disagreeing with an African American. We would become inauthentic if we did not have disagreements with this president.

John Conyers

#29. You're never too old or too busy to continue your educatioan!

Eva Longoria

#30. It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

Greta Garbo

#31. Soft pillows, soft blankets, soft sheets: Her kiss? Sweet, and hard enough to crack your teeth.

Devin Johnston

#32. Trying to be good enough to earn heaven is like trying to jump to Hawaii from the coast of California. Everyone looks like an idiot, some drown, some get three feet, some get ten feet, but no one even gets close to Hawaii.

Jefferson Bethke

#33. Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

Jimmy Breslin

#34. I'm not going to speculate.I'm just going to run my campaign, talk about what I'm doing and why I think I'd be the best president of any of the candidates on either side.

Hillary Clinton

#35. That which is chiefly the office of a general, to force the enemy into fighting when he finds himself the stronger, and to avoid being driven into it himself when he is the weaker...

Plutarch

#36. When I was in Grade 9, there was an election for high school president, and one of the candidates told us that if we elected him, he would abolish homework. He promised this to the entire student body from the stage in the school gymnasium.

Martin O'Malley