Candidates Quotes · Page 9

I was the perfect candidate. America had their chance with the perfect candidate.

— Michele Bachmann

I have... submitted the resignation of the government, and I have declared that I will not be a candidate to head the…

— Rafik Hariri

I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.

— Howard Dean

I think Nevada is going to really be the first true test of whether or not these candidates have particular strengths in…

— Lucy Flores

Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads.

— George W. Bush

In terms of objectives or agenda, Donald Trump has been the most transparent candidate that I can remember.

— Rush Limbaugh

Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm.

— Frank Dane

I think that the candidates who are doing it [not debating] are doing a great disservice to the party. It's a sign…

— Chris Matthews

Every voting choice you exercise ought to be for the candidate, platform, party, or policy that will best represent the values of…

— Tony Evans

The Republican Primaries were quite interesting. The establishment had its candidate, [Mitt] Romney, a kind of a Wall Street lawyer and investor,…

— Noam Chomsky

Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all…

— Jack Germond

Elections officials here in California are concerned that having 247 candidates would require a ballot so long it would be difficult to…

— Jay Leno

When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake.…

— James Bryce

“If elitist groups like Bohemian Club, the CFR and the Bilderberg Group select and groom candidates to become Presidents of the US…

— Lance Morcan

If you want to beat Donald Trump, you know, one of the clearest indications of who can beat Trump is Donald spends…

— Ted Cruz

Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you don't hear from these GOP candidates is that they really can't go after this president on domestic production of oil…

— Jared Bernstein

In fact, The Party has provided so much of the ground game and field operation and data operation to supplement what we…

— Kellyanne Conway

There was a whole set of issues that the other Republican candidates couldn't go after Trump that hard on. They had this…

— Josh Barro

After starting a blood feud with Fox News, something no Republican presidential candidate has dared to do before, [Donald] Trump seems to…

— Chris Hayes

Colleges seem to want candidates that are so well-rounded they'd have to be two different people use together with mutually exclusive characteristics!…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Network news accustoms audiences to assertion not argument. Over time, it reinforces the notion that politics is about visceral identification and apposition,…

— Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Flint is a city of a hundred thousand that was having a rough go of it even before its water was poisoned…

— Tamara Keith

I was incredulous as the bias of the media in terms of the candidates [for presidency]. I was incredulous at the fake…

— Paula Broadwell

Belonging to one party is acceptable. But my days of just ticking the party box are long over. I judge the candidates…

— Rob Lowe

Let's not forget, Sarah Palin may not have a golden touch, but she gave Christine O'Donnell candidate a big touch that got…

— Chris Matthews

In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates.

— Michael Moore

Our democracy if self-cleansing. If you don't like it, be a candidate, or support a candidate.

— Dick Gephardt

It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts.

— Will Rogers

It's no surprise I am addicted to all the Republican presidential candidates. They are like crack -- in that they will devastate…

— Stephen Colbert

We need candidates who are able to reach out to young voters, women voters.

— Elise Stefanik

“Often times it isn't the quality of your candidates, it's the quality of your interview.”

— Mark W Boyer

We have many candidates, like in reality television, but we don't really have a leader.

— Reuven Rivlin

Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs.

— Paul Krugman

“Those who should, never will. Those who will, never should". (about presidential candidates)”

— Anonymous

Donald Trump's life has born fruit in jobs and generosity. He cannot be bought. He is not a puppet on a string…

— Jerry Falwell, Jr

Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role.

— Kim Campbell

Conservatives looking at presidential candidates have to ask what kind of leader they want sitting in the White House.

— Tom Tancredo

Donald Trump is sort of the first candidate of his type that non-politician, true outsider, was coming to shake up the system.

— Kellyanne Conway