Candidate Quotes
354 quotes by 294 authors
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Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.
— Eric Sevareid
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ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office…
— Ambrose Bierce
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When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to…
— Richard P. Feynman
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All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally, the case that…
— Thomas Kuhn
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My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master.
— Lev Polugaevsky
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He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are asking the wrong question. The issue is not who should be trusted with all the power of the Presidency. Instead, we must ask…
— James Bovard
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into…
— Victoria Woodhull
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LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Every voting choice you exercise ought to be for the candidate, platform, party, or policy that will best represent the values of the kingdom of…
— Tony Evans
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I believe Sarah Palin is a true statesman, whose experience as a failed vice presidential candidate, half-term governor and eight-episode reality star has fully prepared…
— Stephen Colbert
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At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of…
— Marcus Allen
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People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place…
— Howard Dean
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I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.
— Mickey Kaus
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It is disingenuous to imply that my father was a Republican. He never endorsed any presidential candidate, and there is certainly no evidence that he…
— Martin Luther King III
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Rick Perry is the perfect candidate for those who thought George W. Bush was just too dang cerebral. And Adios, Mofo is the perfect guide…
— Paul Begala
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Every week Republicans are excited about a new candidate because the one they liked last week turned out to be a moron.
— Andy Borowitz
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Every candidate is going to come to you and say they are the most conservative person that ever lived.
— Ted Cruz
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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected…
— Robert Ringer
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Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never…
— Ronald Reagan
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