Candidate Quotes · Page 5

Trump is a really complicated story and a difficult candidate to write about.

— David Fahrenthold

If you don't ask for money, people don't think you are a serious candidate.

— Gretchen Whitmer

Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.

— Dana Perino

Americans want to be represented by the best candidate, not the one with the richest friends.

— Jason Kander

I am the only candidate for mayor of London with the experience of being a transport minister.

— Sadiq Khan

The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.

— Mary Cheney

I've worked on enough campaigns to know that the most aggrieved candidate rarely emerges victorious.

— James Carville

You cannot be a part-time candidate when you're running against Orrin Hatch.

— Scott Howell

I recognize out of the box that I am not the establishment candidate. There's nothing about me that would have anybody draw…

— Andrew Gillum

As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.

— Nancy Gibbs

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his…

— Noah Webster

Mr. Trump is an entertainer, bringing a rawness and wildness to the presidential race that no other candidate can come close to…

— Anand Giridharadas

I'm a single-issue voter, to get straight to the point. I'm really only interested in the candidate who's toughest and least apologetic…

— Christopher Hitchens

Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I'm 43 years old and I'm the healthiest candidate for the Presidency of the United States. You've travelled with me enough to…

— John F. Kennedy

And I'll tell you another thing, you won't find any candidate that supports prayer in school and gay marriage. For that reason…

— Kinky Friedman

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

“Every day that I was a candidate for President, I knew that millions of people were counting on me, and I couldn’t…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

Nothing will motivate conservative evangelical Christians to vote Republican in the 2008 presidential election more than a Democratic nominee named Hillary Rodham…

— Jerry Falwell

Right now I am working on something that's pretty important to me. It has to do with my own history in politics.…

— Robert Redford

Lebanon is restless, Syria got its walking papers, Egypt is scheduling elections with more than one candidate, and even Saudi Arabia, whose…

— Suzanne Fields

You know, I think, people of all stripes in California, Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals, frankly, as I have traveled the state, the…

— Meg Whitman

I still think that with any candidate, whoever gets elected, there are going to be certain issues or platforms that those who…

— Eddie Vedder

Obama really changed the way in which design can be used effectively for a candidate.

— Debbie Millman

I've never made a political donation to Hillary Clinton or any other political candidate.

— Bill Browder

I was the first candidate to announce my run on Instagram. So that was kind of cool.

— Elise Stefanik

I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.

— Al Sharpton

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

— Eugene McCarthy

In presidential campaigns, experience as a candidate is an invaluable asset.

— Bob Beckel

“the candidate who stands out the most in an interview is the one who acts like a consultant already.”

— Victor Cheng

Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

— Samuel L. Jackson

No candidate is above close coverage and no analyst would claim Biden is a perfect candidate.

— Jessica Tarlov

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

— Stanislaw Lem

The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff.

— Adlai Stevenson

I'm the perfect candidate to be affected by SARS. I'm highly susceptible to infections.

— Ron Santo

In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.

— Marianne Williamson

Every candidate has passive support. It's just people that are gonna vote for him no matter what.

— Rush Limbaugh

First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.

— Jim DeMint

Every candidate is going to come to you and say they are the most conservative person that ever lived.

— Ted Cruz