Candidates Quotes · Page 12

It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot.

— Ralph Nader

It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.

— Niklaus Wirth

Candidates are up one day, down the other. Candidates' fortunes turn on a dime. They can be determined by a good or…

— Ana Navarro

A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and…

— Jim Lehrer

Dogs are great assets to candidates, and the feeling seems to be engendered that if a dog loves the candidate, he can't…

— Dick Gregory

I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.

— Laurance Rockefeller

Did it ever strike you, Jennifer [Palmieri], that maybe [Hillary Clinton] is a lousy candidate?

— Rush Limbaugh

This is so sexist. I mean, are we really going to put this as a standard of something we are going to…

— Stephanie Miller

When you buy toothpaste or detergent or gas, that is now used for the first time in your lifetime or my lifetime…

— Russ Feingold

We have the most liberal, the most leftist candidate who has ever run for president in my lifetime; he's a sitting duck.…

— Rush Limbaugh

I'm not going to speculate.I'm just going to run my campaign, talk about what I'm doing and why I think I'd be…

— Hillary Clinton

He is racist, he's homophobic, he's xenophobic and he's a sexist. He's the perfect Republican candidate. [California Democratic Party chairman about Pat…

— Bill Press

The trouble with politics and political coverage today is that there's too much liberal bias… There's too much tilt toward the left-wing…

— William Kristol

The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously…

— Fidel Castro

The BJP is an optimistic party. Our strength and our democratic values are such that even a poor person from a backward…

— Narendra Modi

I joked at our National Convention that our party was nominating a candidate for president who was charismatic, larger than life, memorable,…

— Mike Pence

There in front of me was the Senator on the floor being held by the busboy. There was nobody else around, and…

— Bill Eppridge

I mean, obviously, one of the strongest arguments against evolution and selection of the fittest and progress, which is part of evolution,…

— William Kristol

Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby…

— Upton Sinclair

I think the Democratic electorate is similarly very energized. In both cycles we have new folks coming into the system who had…

— Leah D. Daughtry

Have you or haven't you built a good school? Haven't you improved living conditions? Aren't you a bureaucrat? Have you helped to…

— Joseph Stalin

Some Democrats and their advocates in the press believe Obamacare, a year into implementation, is no longer much of a factor in…

— Byron York

A lot of people who voted for Trump, working class people, voted for Obama in 2008. They were seduced by the slogans…

— Noam Chomsky

Scientists say over the next hundred years, the coast of California will sink almost five feet. So the presidential candidates need to…

— Craig Ferguson

Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.

— Barbara Mikulski

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

— Mark B. Cohen

During the primaries, if another candidate criticized him, [Donald] Trump would respond with even stronger criticism toward his attacker.

— David Krieger

Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.

— Zephyr Teachout

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

— Shirley Chisholm

George W. Bush is very vulnerable but not if you campaign the way the major candidates - except for Dean and Kucinich…

— Ralph Nader

I hopes the candidate [Donald Trump] is given fake intelligence briefings ... because you can't trust him.

— Harry Reid

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

— Lawrence Lessig

If free will exists, why do the tallest candidates with the best hair usually win elections ?

— Scott Adams

Both candidates for president talk about balancing the budget ten years from now. Even if they win, they won't be in office…

— Virgil Goode

I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.

— Bob Graham

A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

— Sydney J. Harris

If it's of help to my candidates, I would like to go anywhere to give my candidates a boost.

— Tan Cheng Bock

I'm an independent, straight in the middle. I've donated to candidates that I thought would be good that are Republican and Democrats…

— John Paul DeJoria

Thrilled that Gov. Romney enjoys my old character. I enjoyed the character he used 2 b 2. If he'd embrace that again,…

— Jason Alexander

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.

— Jeb Bush