Candidate Quotes

Hillary Clinton is such a formidable candidate.

— Natalie Portman

You can't be the candidate and the campaign manager.

— Roger Stone

[Donald Trump] was a better candidate; that's how he won.

— Kellyanne Conway

I don't think I'm the cookie-cutter candidate.

— George Brauchler

I don't look like a normal congressional candidate.

— Elise Stefanik

I'm not just a candidate, I'm the President

— Barack Obama

I think I'd be a prime candidate for canonisation.

— Anonymous

Republicans are good at standing by their candidate.

— George Clooney

Vote for the candidate you believe would be the best candidate. That's the way it should work.

— Rudy Giuliani

You can have all the money in the world, but if you're not a good candidate, it doesn't matter.

— Lara Trump

When candidate Donald Trump said things that I didn't necessarily agree with, I would call him on it.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

I've always believed in supporting the best candidate at the time.

— Steve Mnuchin

I don't want to be Wall Street's candidate. I want to be Argentines' candidate.

— Alberto Fernandez

No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.

— Dick Morris

The thing about Donald Trump, he is a different candidate.

— Jack Kingston

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

— Horatio Alger

“If you have experienced injustice and insulted by the ungodliness, then you are a candidate to stand against the same.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I've always supported legislation for a woman's right to choose. And as mayor - I ran as an open, pro-choice candidate for…

— Marty Walsh

I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not…

— Victoria Woodhull

I was a candidate in Loughborough in the 2005 election. I had a good result against the sitting Labour MP but not…

— Nicky Morgan

Minnesotans are ticket splitters. They look to the candidate, not the party, which is the way it should be, and that's only…

— Erik Paulsen

There's an enormous difference between voting for a candidate because you hate another ethnic group and voting for a candidate because he's…

— Jonathan Haidt

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

— Marya Mannes

I am not a fan of Mitt Romney, but I admit that he is, politically speaking, a good candidate for president. He…

— Jack Schlossberg

Through the potent example of his own life, President Obama enabled us to believe the best about America, and, therefore, about ourselves.…

— Cynthia P. Schneider

Advancement and promotion in Mystic Masonry is not dependent on favor; it cannot be given till it has been earned and the…

— Max Heindel

I went from being a senator, a young senator, to being considered for vice president, running for president, being a vice presidential…

— John Edwards

When I decide who to vote for as president, I ask myself who will be best for America and for the world.…

— Alan Dershowitz

What any candidate should do in any race, frankly, is to show up. There's no special, secret sauce there. It's about having…

— Gretchen Whitmer

[Donald] Trump is the only Republican candidate in the last seven cycles to understand all three legs of the foreign policy stool…

— Rush Limbaugh

We need a candidate who's going to be a fighter for freedom. Who is going to get up and make that the…

— Rick Santorum

There is one candidate in this election who will protect that dream. One leader who will fight hard to keep the promise…

— Susana Martinez

I guess I don't have a candidate who makes my heart go pitter-patter the way I wish it would. I'm thinking, here's…

— Sara Paretsky

I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you. I was never the…

— Barack Obama

Go back and read Sinclair Lewis - It Can't Happen Here or Babbitt. For a guy or girl who's going to do…

— David Cross

My father was a mailman. His father was a coal miner. My mother's mother could barely speak English. And their son today…

— John Kasich

“When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men…

— H.L. Mencken

Every Republican candidate in the country is going to be asked whether in a debate or where else, by opponents or by…

— Mark Shields

“you have to understand something about presidential elections in general. The politicians devise strategies and court donors years in advance. At the…

— Katy Tur

I think when you're running for president, especially someone that's never held elected office, there's one set of things that you may…

— Marco Rubio