Candidacy Quote by Hunter S. Thompson

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

— Ronald Reagan

I'm very disappointed with the McCain campaign. In my opinion, it was inept.

— Paul Broun

If there had been a charismatic figure in the United States who could mobilize fears, anger, racism, a sense of loss of the future…

— Noam Chomsky

[Two of the most unpopular presidential candidates selected by the two parties in history] indicates that there is a lot of cynicism out there.…

— Barack Obama

Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they…

— David Horowitz

[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.

— Nat Hentoff

That's not saying there's not a bunch of good Democrats. I'm sure there's a lot of people who still haven't figured that out yet…

— Aaron McGruder

Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they…

— Mark Sanford

There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its…

— Max Lerner

“In other words, the weight of the evidence filtering down from the high brain-rooms of both the New York Times and the Washington Post…

— Hunter S. Thompson

There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny.

— Tom Ford

People are inevitably disappointed, because no one's as good as Bill Clinton's first impression. Or, he's done things. He's disappointed people in a variety…

— Dee Dee Myers