Candidate Quotes

354 quotes by 294 authors

Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters. — Jeff Greenfield
You don't have to be wealthy to run for mayor. I'm a Green Party candidate running for mayor and I'm being taken seriously. — Matt Gonzalez
I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me, and did not… — Matt Gonzalez
There's always a risk when the candidate becomes president: Will he deliver what is expected of him? — Francois Hollande
You can't get much more liberal than John Kerry is. I mean, he's my candidate, but, I mean, come on. — Don Imus
If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in… — Hamilton Jordan
I have never seen . . . so slippery, so disgusting a candidate. — William J. Clinton
I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA. — John F. Kerry
At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate. In this age… — Robert A. Heinlein
You see, even though back then Barack was a senator and a presidential candidate, to me, he was still the guy who'd picked me up… — Michelle Obama
The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest… — Fidel Castro
At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population.… — Ian MacKaye
I'm not sure a candidate ever feels his message is getting out. — Scott McCallum
I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and… — Scott McCallum
Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if… — Hugo Black
Senate races are different from House races, in the sense that they are more candidate-driven. The higher the office - that is, I mean, governor,… — Judy Woodruff
"Perceive" is the word that became in the '72 campaign what "charisma" was for the 1960, '64 and even the '68 campaigns. "Perceive" is the… — Hunter S. Thompson
Any candidate who'd offered a real possibility of an alternative to Nixon - someone with a different concept of the presidency - could have challenged… — Hunter S. Thompson
It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate. — Hunter S. Thompson
I think that is the fight that we have to wage if we're to save the middle class. And I do have doubts about whether… — Lindsey Graham

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