Candidates Quotes · Page 7

I just think that the independent voters are going to take their time and look at both candidates.

— Jim Talent

I would vote for a Muslim if he or she was the best candidate able to lead the country and defend our…

— John McCain

This is about these particular candidates in this particular year. That's what motivates me.

— David Dinkins

Here in California, one candidate for governor is a 100-year-old woman. She's going door-to-door and asking one simple question - 'Do I…

— Craig Kilborn

All of the candidates agree that the Democratic Party needs to undergo fundamental reforms.

— Martin Frost

Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.

— H. L. Mencken

The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.

— Kin Hubbard

If I were to become a serial glitter-bomber, it would seriously impact my ability to get close enough to candidates to ask…

— Vermin Supreme

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

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

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

Candidates have been telling you that if elected they would 'pull you from this bog hole of financial misery.' Now is a…

— Will Rogers

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

— Mike Pence

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 debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were…

— Mark Hamill

Let me say, it's - what a commentary it is on American media that you have to go to Russian television in…

— Jill Stein

We know where the television is - everything has to be a sound bite; everything has to be an image; ideas are…

— Howard Rheingold

Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly…

— Mary McGrory

Gunn would be an important figure-rewarding, delightful, accomplished, enduring-in the history of English-language poetry even were his life not as fascinating as…

— Stephen Burt

Donald Trump didn't know the [Democratic] vice presidential candidate he was running against: Tim Kaine [Senator] of Virginia, Donald! Not Thomas Kean,…

— Chrissy Teigen

Maybe I'm too close to the two Democrats to be against either one. I went to law school with Barack Obama and…

— Keith Boykin

If you work through the existing structures you are going to be corrupted. By working through political system that poisons the atmosphere,…

— Howard Zinn

When you have a candidate like Donald Trump saying that Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers, and also doubling down and suggesting…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

It is undeniably the duty of the opposition party to field a credible slate of candidates for the nation's highest office.

— James Carville

Taking on the media is something I would never tell a candidate to do. I'd advise him what I would do in…

— Roger Ailes

The American people should be free to advocate for their candidates and their positions without burdensome limitations.

— Mitt Romney

I think God has blessed us. He has blessed the Republican Party with some very good candidates. The Democrats can't even find…

— Marco Rubio

When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.

— J. B. Pritzker

Donald Trump was a very unconventional candidate. He's going to be an unconventional president.

— Paul Ryan

Start-up teams are always in flux, so, like all start-ups, we're always talking to candidates for various key roles.

— Sean Parker

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

— Rich Lowry

I will vote for the first candidate who promises to use nuclear missiles against LinkedIn.

— Dave Barry

I could never endorse any candidate because not one of them is saying that which would save America from the Wrath of…

— Louis Farrakhan

The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves.

— Hunter S. Thompson

California's economy is declining so rapidly that candidates are asking 'Are you better off now then you were four minutes ago?'

— Craig Kilborn

This is a very crucial period and we have got five fantastic candidates. All of them would make excellent leaders of the…

— Harriet Harman

I'm the candidate who forgot to take off her hat before she threw it in the ring.

— Gracie Allen

I like candidates who tell me something that is going to make a difference to me.

— Ann Richards

President Bush is not fazed by other candidates' war records. He said, I may have not fought in Vietnam, but I created…

— Craig Kilborn