Candidate Quotes · Page 4

I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.

— David Herbert Donald

I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.

— Al Gore

“Clinton, after all, was not the candidate of those who wanted to see a shift in policy or direction.”

— Jared Yates Sexton

The only candidate pocketing big money from people who want to destroy coal is Mitch McConnell.

— Alison Lundergan Grimes

We can take this country back. All we need is to nominate the right candidate. It's no more complicated than that.

— Rush Limbaugh

Everybody wants to fall in love with the perfect candidate.

— Michael Capuano

I consider myself an excellent candidate... because I care.

— Anonymous

I'm the only candidate that will fund time-travel research.

— Vermin Supreme

The expectation that 'Trump as president' will be starkly different from 'Trump as candidate' is a false hope at best.

— Jamal Khashoggi

When Obama was first proposed as a presidential candidate in 2007, the nation failed to have a meaningful debate concerning the serious…

— Aaron Klein

[James Mattis] also has real passion for the care of the men and women in the U.S. military and their families. So,…

— Michele Flournoy

I am a registered Democrat (there are only two Republicans in Maryland and they're both in office) and two-time unsuccessful candidate for…

— Jack L. Chalker

Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking, 'Which candidate…

— Gloria Steinem

I have a sense of destiny because of my mother, who was an extraordinary person but a terrible candidate for mother. She…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I've found that Californians care less about the 'R' or 'D,' by a candidate's name, and more about whether you can get…

— Kevin Faulconer

We need candidate schools to recruit more young African-Americans to run for office and more diverse law enforcement communities.

— Claire McCaskill

There's no question that a public official of either party can take it too far, and it's up to the candidate to…

— Bob Casey, Jr

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

You've got to be happy if they get your facts right. Since January I don't think I've recognized a damned thing that…

— John Lindsay

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

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

— Jeff Greenfield

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

— James Wolcott

I'm not the candidate who puts his kids in private schools.

— George Brauchler

A campaign forms the basis for the public's expectations of how the candidate will govern once in office.

— Neera Tanden

Donald [Trump], is great at - at the one-liners, but he's a chaos candidate.

— Jeb Bush

“We’d all like t’vote fer th’best man, but he’s never a candidate.”

— Kin Hubbard

“But, he warned, “I’m not sure that the next candidate after me is going to be able to compete in that same…

— Jane Mayer

When I was a candidate for the Republican nomination for president back in 1995, 1996, I advocated the fair tax.

— Richard Lugar

“National Review will support the rightwardmost viable candidate.”

— William F. Buckley Jr

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to…

— Lamar Alexander

Almost never does a candidate with high negatives have much of a coattail effect.

— Mitch McConnell

“...anyone wishing to hold office will be disqualified from being a candidate based on his desire to hold office.”

— Edward M. Wolfe

I'm the only candidate running for governor that opposes Obamacare expansion in Mississippi.

— Tate Reeves

The popular choice, by more than 2 million votes, is a completely qualified candidate for president.

— Lawrence Lessig

I'm not going to opine as to whether I think a particular candidate can beat Donald Trump or not.

— Michael Avenatti

On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.

— Foster Friess

We're never going to have a perfect candidate unless Jesus Christ is on the ballot.

— Jerry Falwell, Jr

I don't have to agree with everything a candidate does to support him.

— Harvey Weinstein