A platform is something a candidate stands for and the voters fall for. — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
You're basically like glass: People see the candidates through you. — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
I have never seen . . . so slippery, so disgusting a candidate. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Tolling plan is a wonderful opportunity for political pandering, and some candidates are taking full advantage of it. — Robert James Thomson Copy Share Image
Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate. — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
Often President Obama's worst critics are Senator Obama and candidate Obama. — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
I don't know if the presidential candidates are running for the White House or Animal House. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
Even when candidates have degrees from Harvard and Yale, they try to run as the candidate of the common man. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
It seems the more shallow and mean the candidates are the more they rise in the polls. — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
We've got to go to the people with bold ideas and candidates of conviction - we've got to be hotter than high… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Being a little older is not going to win election. Being a little younger might, especially if the older candidates, Hillary Clinton… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to… — Peer Steinbruck Copy Share Image
I'm the only one of the republican candidates who's actually turned an economy around and turned it around with the with kind… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
As much as I cherish your [McCarthy's] right to a platform as an independent candidate I am not going to sit here… — John Anderson Copy Share Image
When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
We have a lot of inequality, and I'm not a one-issue candidate, because I don't think this is a one-issue country. So… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I'm finding all over America that people are sick and tired of the tweedle-dee dees and the tweedle-dee dums who constantly flip-flap… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally,… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
It's not just that Miers has zero judicial experience. It's that she's so transparently a crony/"diversity" pick while so many other vastly… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
Searching for funds to continue my skating career when I was 17, I called the Women's Sports Foundation in New York. The… — Kristi Yamaguchi Copy Share Image
Trudeau motivated people between the ages of 18 to 35 to vote, and 82 per cent of them voted for him. That… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
In campaign reporting more than any other kind of press coverage, reporters aren't just covering a story, they're a part of it… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Campaign manager Eli Gold played by Alan Cumming on "The Good Wife" describing an old maxim in politics, don't commit to a… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
The (campaign) ads all have the same tone - the voice is hushed and amazed when talking about The Enemy, as if… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
What we saw with both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, that their response, whenever you point to anything in their record, is… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Some of the donors are - many of them are good people and they're donating because their ideas are those embodied by… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Accuse American businessmen of being responsible for radicalism and they would indignantly deny the accusation. Yet, in one fundamental sense, they are… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“What it came down to was a search not for the most talent, the greatest brilliance, but for the fewest black marks,… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon… — Eric Pianka Copy Share Image
“I hear of a convention to be held at Baltimore, or elsewhere, for the selection of a candidate for the Presidency, made… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In Cuba the elections for the powers of the State comes from the people, first it comes from meetings of the citizens… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
My teenage children watched Senator Clinton on the Today Show, mouths agape. They attended our local caucus with me and saw hundreds… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
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