Candidate Quotes · Page 6

As a presidential candidate, Trump seems heaven-sent just to make fools out of Republicans.

— Richard Cohen

I will vote for the first candidate who promises to use nuclear missiles against LinkedIn.

— Dave Barry

A candidate is someone who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.

— Anonymous

Can a serious party put up an individual perceived previously or continuously as a joke candidate? I say yes.

— Vermin Supreme

It will be almost impossible for any other candidate to raise the money that the Clintons can raise.

— John Catsimatidis

I am not now, nor will I ever be, a candidate for offensive coordinator of Iowa.

— Marco Rubio

In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.

— Zachary Taylor

In my case, I am always that odd candidate that doesn't look like everybody else.

— Rashida Tlaib

I'm going to take part in the elections, not just as a candidate but as a mouthpiece for those who can't become…

— Ksenia Sobchak

The strength of Donald Trump as a candidate - and I'm not in any way defending moral convictions or anything of the…

— Mark Shields

The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption…

— James L. Buckley

If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender…

— Karen DeCrow

Before I ever endorse a candidate, I meet them, interview them, interview their colleagues and evaluate their competitors, study their positions and…

— Shaun King

What I would like to vote for is a candidate that is socially liberal, a fiscal conservative, broadly libertarian with a small…

— Tyler Cowen

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American…

— Karl Rove

“But he knew that on the day of a general election, every candidate is convinced he is going to win, even the…

— Jeffrey Archer

The media would love to be able to ignore Donald Trump, but they don't dare. He draws too big a crowd. They've…

— Rush Limbaugh

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem…

— James Wolcott

There is something discordant about a team of speechwriters and political operatives hammering away to create an image of the 'real, inner'…

— Jeff Greenfield

I will look for a candidate, Republican or Democrat, who seems to be on the way or understands how to resolve the…

— Colin Powell

In an age when stagecraft, gauzy themes, and sound-bites have too often been substituted for leadership, Bill Clinton as a candidate made…

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

I'm referring to anybody who is trying to interfere with the process of interfering with what the will of the people are.…

— Benjamin Carson

I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: ... At the end of the war in the…

— George McGovern

I am not a Hispanic candidate. I am an American candidate who happens to be of Hispanic heritage, who understands the culture,…

— Richard Carmona

So I decided to look into presidential candidate Rick Santorum so I googled

— Sir Eddy Cook

Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition.

— Timothy Noah

If Donald Trump is the candidate against Hillary Clinton, then I will be supporting Donald Trump.

— Lee Zeldin

I am not a party candidate, and if elected cannot be President of a party, but the President of the whole people.

— Zachary Taylor

You can't get much more liberal than John Kerry is. I mean, he's my candidate, but, I mean, come on.

— Don Imus

A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard.

— Peter Camejo

It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.

— Martin Sheen

Every four years since 1988, I have voted for the Republican presidential candidate.

— Max Boot

I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.

— Jack L. Chalker

You can identify me as the freedom or the liberty candidate or the limited government candidate.

— Matt Rosendale

The American people in my view will never support a candidate whose major theme is bigotry.

— Bernie Sanders

In the view of everyone, I am a viable candidate and I should be on the ballot.

— John McCain

It is literally painful to watch Rick Perry as a candidate.

— James Carville

You never agree with any one candidate 100 percent. I don't agree with myself 100 percent.

— Rudy Giuliani

I have never seen . . . so slippery, so disgusting a candidate.

— William J. Clinton

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

— Kin Hubbard