Quotes About Candidates

#1. In creating superdelegates, the Democratic Party recognized the expertise that its top holders of public office have gained by running for office themselves. They are experts at winning. They know the issues. They are in a unique position to evaluate presidential candidates.

Jim Hunt

#2. I believe we all have the right as private citizens to endorse candidates and participate in the political process.

Jerry Falwell Jr.

#3. 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

#4. I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.

Jim DeMint

#5. I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community.

Ken Mehlman

#6. Any time you get into a presidential campaign and the stakes are so high, all candidates - they want to be in complete control whenever they can. And you can't blame them for that.

Bob Schieffer

#7. The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.

J. C. Watts

#8. Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office.

Edmund White

#9. People are tired of the status quo. You see that in various movements in and out of our [the Republicans]party, but most candidates are offering hollow rhetoric, not specific solutions.

Carly Fiorina

#10. The highest and best use of our time that really matters over the next decade will be working to elect clean-energy candidates, especially in swing states and swing districts around the country.

Eban Goodstein

#11. [Donald] Trump is going to appeal better to African Americans, Hispanics, and others than previous Republican candidates because he's talking about what they want: a fair chance to have a better life economically.

Jeff Sessions

#12. Citizens are starting not to excuse political candidates who have web sites that do nothing but throw virtual confetti.

David Weinberger

#13. That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.

Donald Trump

#14. 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

#15. You didn't leave your party. Your party left you. Forget about party labels. Just vote on the issues and for candidates who support equality.

Gloria Steinem

#16. Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on a smaller scale and lacks the advantage of having made enormous soft-money campaign contributions to political candidates.

P. J. O'Rourke

#17. Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.

Robert Teeter

#18. Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.

Ted Cruz

#19. The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.

Carol Moseley Braun

#20. 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

#21. In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.

Sarah Palin

#22. One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.

Rupert Murdoch

#23. The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.

Walter Lang

#24. Presidential and vice-presidential debates are not about campaign staff or consultants, and it is high time we as a people took control and reminded them and their candidates of that important fact.

Bob Barr

#25. When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view.

Tim Robbins

#26. Corporations are economic entities or structures, and yet they're allowed to fund political candidates, and when those candidates are elected, guess who gets in the door first? It's corporations.

David Suzuki

#27. I don't think anyone has campaigned much more than I have for Republican candidates, going back to 1998. I mean, I've been in 45 states on behalf of 200 candidates - all Republicans.

Rudy Giuliani

#28. 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

#29. No candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one which makes our candidates look like hucksters.

Greta Van Susteren

#30. That's what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they'd have to get new candidates.

Meg White

#31. America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.

Mark McKinnon

#32. For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts; and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.

Lucy Powell

#33. Today the Secretary of State said that of the 247 candidates, so far 115 of them have been certified. How embarrassing is that? Imagine if you were turned down because you didn't meet the high standards set by Larry Flynt and Gallagher.

Jay Leno

#34. Some older or very ill patients may not be suitable candidates for fecal transfer. Colonoscopy is an invasive procedure, especially for those patients who are too ill with other conditions like cancer, heart failure, dialysis, or Alzheimer's.

J. Thomas LaMont

#35. I think God has blessed us. He has blessed the Republican Party with some very good candidates. The Democrats can't even find one.

Marco Rubio

#36. These are the people we elected and if we are not satisfied we should get new candidates. It is in our hands. It is our country. It is a very simplistic view that politicians are to blame for everything.

Robert Stanfield

#37. Internet companies created the social-media tools that fueled the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street insurgencies, and that have helped political candidates rally grass-roots support.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#38. You can never find a candidate that will agree with everything you believe. Then you would just have a clone and that doesn't exist.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#39. Blogging is a great way to show your talents and interests to prospective employers, while adding an edge to your resume. If you blog consistently it shows your dedication, passions and creativity - all of which are key attributes employers look for in job candidates.

Lauren Conrad

#40. I have six times as many Twitter followers as all the other candidates combined, but it didn't count because if it counted I'd still be a candidate; since I can't be a candidate that can't count.

Newt Gingrich

#41. The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.

Mark E. Hyman

#42. Republican primary voters, whether they're close primaries or open, are voting for anybody but candidates attached to the Republican establishment.

Rush Limbaugh

#43. It's important to remember that whatever the presidential candidates of either party say, they will have to interact with the United States Congress, particularly the Senate, when it comes to crafting policy.

Tom Cotton

#44. 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

#45. We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionally limited government. We have to have more people come to Congress with that mindset. I think we can make this a better place, if, when elections happen, we support candidates who share that philosophy.

Mike Lee

#46. More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.

Valentina Tereshkova

#47. In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans.

John F. Kerry

#48. Steven Brams and Peter Fishburn, one a political scientist and the other an economist, argue that "approval voting" allows voters to express their true preferences without concern for electability.8 Under approval voting, each voter may vote for as many candidates as he wishes.

Avinash K. Dixit

#49. Establishing a successful hiring culture that delivers a steady stream of outstanding people starts with understanding the role of recruiters in sourcing candidates. Hint: It isn't their exclusive realm.

Eric Schmidt

#50. If you want to get unpaid media coverage, you had better be quotable. It's an interesting problem, because very few candidates are quotable.

Roger Ailes

#51. Quite frankly, Oklahomans are pretty smart. They know how to choose candidates.

James Lankford

#52. My presence in the social media and on the Internet is much bigger than many of the other candidates, including Mitt Romney. So, when you take the social media and you take the Tea Party citizens movement, you have a combination there that, quite frankly, 10 years ago, I wouldn't have had a chance.

Herman Cain

#53. Sometimes we're actually right when we go with our gut and stand on principle in supporting underdog candidates.

Sarah Palin

#54. Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.

Eleanor Clift

#55. When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.

Joan Blades

#56. 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

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

Barack Obama

#58. If free will exists, why do the tallest candidates with the best hair usually win elections ?

Scott Adams

#59. Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.

Jeb Bush

#60. It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be.

Tom Daschle

#61. I like candidates who tell me something that is going to make a difference to me.

Ann Richards

#62. Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words.

Mark McKinnon

#63. If the 1992 and 2000 elections were any guide, third-party candidates are death on the mainstream parties with which they're most naturally aligned.

Timothy Noah

#64. Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination.

Dick Morris

#65. I watched the Republican debate. At one point, the candidates said there are no classes in America, a point then hotly debated by all six rich white guys that were there.

Craig Ferguson

#66. I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.

Carol Moseley Braun

#67. I don't think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates.

Ken Mehlman

#68. Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads.

George W. Bush

#69. So Republican candidates bash Obamacare and move up in the polls. Given that public opinion remains firmly against the health care law - as it has been for years - that's not a shock. Democratic beliefs to the contrary are probably wishful thinking.

Byron York

#70. I am neither Republican nor Democrat. I am a registered independent because I find that I cast my votes not on the basis of party loyalty but on the issues of the moment and my assessment of the candidates.

Walter Cronkite

#71. Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.

Jim DeMint

#72. It's no surprise I am addicted to all the Republican presidential candidates. They are like crack
in that they will devastate black communities.

Stephen Colbert

#73. This is about these particular candidates in this particular year. That's what motivates me.

David Dinkins

#74. Didn't come from a particularly political family. My parents were regular voters. My parents didn't make enough money to contribute to campaigns, and they didn't really knock on doors for candidates when I was growing up.

Josh Earnest

#75. If there were two candidates, a Democrat and a Republican, who each committed to the same kind of fundamental reform, then the election would be an election between the vice presidential candidates. It'd be just like the regular election, except it would be one step down.

Lawrence Lessig

#76. Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive.

Ron Fournier

#77. I'm married to Kevin, a photographer whose career has put him on the campaign trail with presidential candidates and sent him on assignment to far-flung places for long periods of time. It was sometimes rough when our children were small, and I was beginning to write in earnest.

Nancy Horan

#78. Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates.

Carol S. Dweck

#79. Here is what the practical impact of Citizens United means. What Citizens United means is that corporations call hundreds of millions of dollars into television ads, radio ads, and other forms of advertising to defeat those candidates who stand up and take them on.

Bernie Sanders

#80. When my principal interviews candidates for a teaching position at my school, regardless of whether it's a language arts position, he always asks them to discuss the last book they read.

Donalyn Miller

#81. Tonight the Republican presidential candidates had a big debate, 10 candidates. The last time that many rich white guys got together, I think Exxon merged with Mobil.

Jay Leno

#82. Companies consistently overvalue relevant experience when judging senior candidates. They should be more focused on what talented smart creatives have to offer.

Anonymous

#83. The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].

Leon Trotsky

#84. Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates.

Reed Hundt

#85. Does it make any sense at all that the chair of a national party would want fewer voters to see our candidates?

Hillary Clinton

#86. Let me first of all congratulate both of the candidates who have made it through - both Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom are formidable politicians and they have fought great campaigns and they deserve to be in the final two.

Michael Gove

#87. I welcome the signing by the presidential candidates Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and Dr. Ashraf Ghani of an agreement on the formation of a government of national unity in Afghanistan,

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#88. Companies who have been able to groom CEOs internally have done significantly better. We came to the conclusion that the quality of several of the reviewed internal candidates was so high that it did not merit to go outside.

Jorma Ollila

#89. During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.

Anatoly Chubais

#90. We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.

Sarah Palin

#91. The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.

Kin Hubbard

#92. Ukippers are the kinds of fools who haven't noticed they're sleep-walking towards fascism. Many UKIP candidates are of the age when their parents fought in the Second World War.

Robert Webb

#93. Just like any electorate, they delighted in making candidates for their favors sweat.

Tom Holland

#94. There's been this attempt to block Donald Trump, in primary candidates and Democrats, that - to try to make everything he says some sort of extreme overstatement.

Jeff Sessions

#95. In fact, the resistance to such claims may well come from the constant impulse to resist the Lordship of Jesus, the one through whom it is accomplished. Paul lived in a world where other 'lords' reigned supreme, and resented alternative candidates for their position. So do we. ROMANS

N. T. Wright

#96. Often times it isn't the quality of your candidates, it's the quality of your interview.

Mark W. Boyer

#97. Moreover, not unlike presidential candidates who hold babies up in the air as soon as the cameras are rolling, male chimps vying for power develop a sudden interest in infants, which they hold and tickle in order

Frans De Waal

#98. There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners.

Adam Rickitt

#99. If you want to beat Donald Trump, you know, one of the clearest indications of who can beat Trump is Donald spends every waking moment attacking me. He doesn't attack any other candidates, because his campaign views us as the only real threat to him.

Ted Cruz

#100. We often feel a twinge of guilt over our own fascination with presidential candidates' wives - as if we are secretly reading the 'Star' for our campaign information instead of the policy journals.

Naomi Wolf