Candidates Quote by E. B. White

Political suicide can end a career.

— John Major

I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan…

— Robert Teeter

A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.

— Woodrow Wilson

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

— Roberto Bolano

A presidential candidate's great desire is to be seen as pragmatic, and they hope their maneuvering and shifting will be seen in pursuit of…

— Robert Dallek

Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes…

— Soren Kierkegaard

It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Go back and read Sinclair Lewis - It Can't Happen Here or Babbitt. For a guy or girl who's going to do an hour…

— David Cross

“You’d have to be crazy to want this job. I don’t mean to be casual about that; I mean that the desire to be…

— Daniel O'Brien

In this way, there is a strange alchemy to modern campaigning: a candidate must highlight the urgency of the choice facing voters and suggest…

— Alex Wagner

“Not even a suicide these days does away with himself in desperation but deliberates on this step so long and so sensibly that he…

— Kierkegaard, Soren

So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a…

— Judith Butler