Candidates Quote by William Howard Taft

You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system.…

— Michael Beschloss

I am still the only elected president of the country.

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

If this enormous pressure didn't exist, I wouldn't have been elected. It would have been one of the usual candidates.

— Emmanuel Macron

But did you know that during the past quarter century, no presidential election has been won by more than ten million ballots cast? Yet…

— Andy Andrews

I'm no longer just a candidate, I'm the president...

— Barack Obama

I ran for the electoral college. I didn't run for the popular vote.

— Donald Trump

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

— John Adams

I can't deny I'm a better ex-president than I was a president.

— Jimmy Carter

The popular choice, by more than 2 million votes, is a completely qualified candidate for president.

— Lawrence Lessig

I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.

— Mickey Kaus

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone…

— Kevin Spacey

Oh despise not election! therein lies all your hope, that there is a remnant who shall infallibly be saved.

— Thomas Goodwin