Candidates Quotes
269 Candidates quotes by 234 unique authors
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I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.
— Laurance Rockefeller
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America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or…
— Mark McKinnon
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Weary of wily politicians who say one thing and do another, voters and advocacy groups insist presidential contenders commit to the cause du jour in…
— Mark McKinnon
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Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should…
— Mark McKinnon
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Donors, like voters, increasingly expect candidates to exercise fiscal discipline.
— Mark McKinnon
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One thing is for sure: most of the people admitting candidates to universities for technical subjects are pretty dissatisfied with the level of math education.
— Conrad Wolfram
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Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain…
— Jack Germond
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Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read…
— Jack Germond
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If you look on the fungal genome as being soldier candidates protecting the U.S. as our host defense, not only for the ecosystem but for…
— Paul Stamets
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Through trial-and-error and observable outcomes, our ancestors narrowed the field of edible mushroom candidates to just a few with remarkable, health-supporting properties.
— Paul Stamets
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The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I interviewed most of the presidential candidates about their positions on technology issues in the 2008 election. After those interviews I endorsed one candidate from…
— Michael Arrington
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When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.
— J. B. Pritzker
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The Tea Party is almost solely grassroots-based; business interests have almost no grassroots organization. The Republican Party has for too long been run on behalf…
— Ben Shapiro
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Internet companies created the social-media tools that fueled the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street insurgencies, and that have helped political candidates rally grass-roots support.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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Because appearing to be fair is part of being fair, most mainstream news organizations discourage marching for causes, displaying political bumper stickers or giving cash…
— Bill Dedman
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Late 19th-century populists saw bankers and industrialists manipulating markets to enrich themselves at the expense of small farmers and labourers and favoured political candidates promising…
— Robert Dallek
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The no-secrets era of social media makes one consider the built-in risk factor of nominating high-testosterone men to positions of power at all. Everyone is…
— Tina Brown
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Belonging to one party is acceptable. But my days of just ticking the party box are long over. I judge the candidates for who they…
— Rob Lowe
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I think people are looking for a president who has views and who sticks to those views. So, I think Governor Romney, Governor Perry, Governor…
— Lamar Alexander
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I believe that presidential candidates actually have a responsibility to point out substantive differences: to point out perspectives that are different.
— John Edwards
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Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
— Ted Cruz
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Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old…
— Edmund White
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People read inevitability as entitlement, and the American people want their candidates to sweat for the job. They want them to actually make a case…
— Deval Patrick
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The Southern Progress Fund will bring much-needed resources into multiple Southern states where Democrats must identify up-and-coming leaders and build a bench of strong potential…
— Ronnie Musgrove
Who Wrote These Candidates Quotes
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