Candidates Quotes · Page 26

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the…

— Constance Baker Motley

Former President George W. Bush has hired a man to lead his presidential think tank in Dallas. The man was hired because…

— Conan O'Brien

The highest and best use of our time that really matters over the next decade will be working to elect clean-energy candidates,…

— Eban Goodstein

I don't think there's any clever way for the establishment to take Donald Trump down. It's very simple. Another candidate is going…

— Dalia Mogahed

I feel really urgent about this election. This is the first time in my voting life that I feel not only passionate…

— Natalie Portman

Trump did more interviews, he explained his agenda more than any political presidential candidate ever has, in my memory, and he has…

— Rush Limbaugh

Strom Thurmond, the former segregationist candidate for president was the Republican Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1986 and he tried…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I think if you're at home and you don't want Donald Trump to be the Republican nominee, then the only candidate who…

— Ted Cruz

I noticed some time ago that neither of the candidates are quoting the founders. If they are, they're doing it so rarely…

— Paul Kengor

[ Donald Trump is] candidate who said he has more confidence in Vladimir Putin's strength than in Barack Obama's strength. His closeness…

— E. J. Dionne

Hillary Clinton's opponent in the U.S. Senate race, the Republican she's going to be running against, has been married three times, had…

— Jay Leno

Have you noticed that every one of these candidates for Presidency say: "Barack Obama's weak, Vladimir Putin's kicking sand in his face.…

— Rush Limbaugh

We can actually speak, much like Bernie Sanders did, for an agenda that the American people are actually clamoring for. In an…

— Jill Stein

After all, despite the scandalous behavior of one and, by the way, the other candidate [they are both , Donald Trump and…

— Vladimir Putin

I find focusing clearly on the problem is the first step to seeing a solution. The problem is (a) the insane amount…

— Lawrence Lessig

[Kellyanne] Conway had just explained how they won the presidency. They flipped over 200 counties, and she explained, "Did you ever think,…

— Rush Limbaugh

Barack Obama didn't get elected president, would never have been elected president, had he decided to run as a black candidate. In…

— Gwen Ifill

Presidential candidate Howard Dean is now being attacked for dodging the draft. I never knew this about the guy - but now…

— David Letterman

I have always gone through public life and saying that with respect to political candidates, I always measure each candidate against what…

— Colin Powell

I'm different than Republican candidates, than other Republican candidates. I've got states that we can win that other Republican candidates wouldn't even…

— Donald Trump

I'm not a quester or a searcher for the truth. I don't really think there is one answer, so I never went…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

National security, the government is in charge of that. And you better have a president that understands the threats we [the state]…

— Marco Rubio

I don't think anyone has campaigned much more than I have for Republican candidates, going back to 1998. I mean, I've been…

— Rudy Giuliani

I'm one of the few candidates that actually goes out and talks in public, so I say a lot of things based…

— Jill Stein

They say John Kerry is the first Democratic presidential candidate in history to raise $50 million in a three-month period. Actually, that's…

— Jay Leno

Late 19th-century populists saw bankers and industrialists manipulating markets to enrich themselves at the expense of small farmers and labourers and favoured…

— Robert Dallek

Richard Nixon was a Republican presidential candidate who encouraged crooks to commit espionage against the Democratic National Committee in order to gain…

— Tim Kaine

When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a…

— Richard P. Feynman

It's nice to have a lot of people in the field. Independent, third party, Libertarian, Reform and other party candidates can do…

— John Murray

I think it is disgraceful. I think it is completely disgusting that you've got a candidate for prime minster who seems to…

— Nicola Sturgeon

It has been reported that Rudolph Giuliani has trademarked the name 'Rudolph Giuliani' so other candidates can't use his name in negative…

— Conan O'Brien

Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent…

— Maureen Reagan

I think [ unpopular presidential candidates ] indicates, at least on the Democratic side, that we've got more work to do to…

— Barack Obama

We don't know yet but so far the three candidates that have dealt with [Donald] Trump most adeptly are [Ted] Cruz, [Chris]…

— Dalia Mogahed

For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers.…

— Rick Perlstein

Timothy Batten is an individual of high integrity and has given many years of service to Georgia and to the United States,…

— Saxby Chambliss

Candidates inspire you. When they inspire you, you believe in them. It becomes kind of cultish in some weird way and so…

— Karine Jean-Pierre

I think many of the mainstream media players are liberal Democrats. They intend to vote for Hillary [Clinton]. They believed Donald [Trump]…

— Ted Cruz

Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way…

— Arthur Capper

[Donald] Trump is going to appeal better to African Americans, Hispanics, and others than previous Republican candidates because he's talking about what…

— Jeff Sessions