Candidates Quote by Mark McKinnon Download Open image “Donors, like voters, increasingly expect candidates to exercise fiscal discipline.” — Mark McKinnon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Candidates Discipline Donors Exercise Expect Fiscal Increasingly Like Voters
Fiscal discipline begins by leveling with people, by being honest, by paying for all of your proposals. — Jason Furman Copy Share Image
The bottom line is, I hear my donors, I hear our base out there, I hear the leadership. And we're taking steps to make… — Michael Steele Copy Share Image
Stemming the tide of special interest campaign cash - and restoring fiscal responsibility in Congress - is no easy task. But there is one… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
If everyone in America can easily see who and what their lawmakers are requesting taxpayer money for, we can keep elected officials honest, end… — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, there are members of Congress who actually want to govern and get stuff done. Unfortunately, there are others whose agendas… — Jon Runyan Copy Share Image
The elected officials should be working for the voters who elected them. Money corrupts the process. Why would you be giving a candidate money… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Our budget also reflects key components of our campaign. It's very much focused on stabilizing public services, restoring stability to public services and investing… — Rachel Notley Copy Share Image
Politicians who are willing to spend too much are the ones who get reelected. — John Templeton Copy Share Image
The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial… — Bradley A. Smith Copy Share Image
When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government. — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
It's just madness. First email. Then instant message. Then MySpace. Then Facebook. Then LinkedIn. Then Twitter. It's not enough anymore to 'Just do it.'… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney is a nice guy. But, we know where nice guys finish in politics. — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin is brilliant. She is a media magnet and a media magnate. She creates headlines and draws crowds wherever she goes, whether it's… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
I'm no economist. I don't even play one on TV. I'm just a husband, a father, a taxpayer. — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Republicans constantly claim to be the party that defends the Constitution. We have no legitimate right to that claim until we get right on… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Every president becomes a caricature. The press, partisans, late-night shows, and other arbiters of our culture these days boil down complicated and multi-faceted personalities… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Now personally, I think the president should golf every day and never have a press conference. I want the leader of the free world… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete. — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role. — Kim Campbell Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a different ball of wax. I've been trying to say for I don't know how many months now that the traditional political playbook in destroying and attacking a political opponent is not gonna work on Trump, because Trump's connection with his supporters or his audience is far deeper and far greater than most voters' connection with a… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against.” That’s certainly true of me. Over my lifetime, the Republican Party has… — Kevin Drum Copy Share
Given a choice between two bald political candidates, the American people will vote for the less bald of the two. — Victor Gold Copy Share Image
Jeb Bush was supposed to be the establishment candidate, but he didn't catch on. And the extraordinary thing about this Republican primary is that… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like - the anti-war government nig... America was a source for division around the world,… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
It is time Britain put its trust back into the Labour Party. I believe I am the candidate that can make this happen precisely… — Diane Abbott Copy Share Image
I like candidates who tell me something that is going to make a difference to me. — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is the least popular candidate for president ever except for Donald Trump. — Charlie Pickering Copy Share Image