Candidates Quotes

Each achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about themselves and being good to liberal candidates.

No candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one which makes our candidates look like hucksters.

One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.

This is a very crucial period and we have got five fantastic candidates. All of them would make excellent leaders of the Party.

I'm not going to speculate.I'm just going to run my campaign, talk about what I'm doing and why I think I'd be the best president of any of the candidates on either side.

Does it make any sense at all that the chair of a national party would want fewer voters to see our candidates?

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.

You must understand printing lies about Republican candidates is OK. It's called vetting. Printing the truth about liberals - that's called "swift-boating."

The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves.

The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.

I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.

[Tom] Steyer is specifically spending money on candidates who will take action against climate change.

I believe we have to move, eventually in our country, toward a system of public financing that really works for candidates running for federal office. I will support that as president.

Tonight the Republican presidential candidates had a big debate, 10 candidates. The last time that many rich white guys got together, I think Exxon merged with Mobil.

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.

There's been this attempt to block Donald Trump, in primary candidates and Democrats, that - to try to make everything he says some sort of extreme overstatement.

Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.

A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.

Senate Democrats blocked President Obama's trade bill yesterday because they're worried it could hurt jobs. It's not an issue for Republicans, since they've all found work as presidential candidates.

Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances.

In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

Best thing about Al Smith dinner: Cardinal Dolan got the candidates together for a brief prayer before going out on the stage.

Both candidates in this election [2004] pledge to end this war and bring our troops home. The great difference - the great difference is that I intend to win it first.

I'm an independent, straight in the middle. I've donated to candidates that I thought would be good that are Republican and Democrats alike.

Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.

I tell people it's like shopping for a car.People are taking candidates out for a test drive, seeing what they like.

In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

[Donald Trump] was a better candidate; that's how he won.

Our party for the longest time has relied on the votes of white guys. I think that all of these candidates are going to improve our party, our policies, and our nation.

I don't think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates.

If you are feeling overly optimistic the Republican Candidates Debate is on.

Candidates [Hillary Clinton and Donald trump], we look forward to hearing you articulate your policies and your positions, as well as your visions and your values.

I am honored to have this role [of the moderator], but this evening belongs to the candidates and, just as important, to the American people.

I could never endorse any candidate because not one of them is saying that which would save America from the Wrath of Allah (God).

None of [candidates] are saying the right thing to save America. She is in deep trouble. Hillary [Clinton] will take you there, [Donald] Trump will take you there.

I think Nevada is going to really be the first true test of whether or not these candidates have particular strengths in particular demographics.

I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central.

Republican candidates have won whites with college degrees in every presidential election since polling began.

Senate races have tightened along with the presidential race. Watch to see how many Republican Senate candidates outperform Donald Trump - and how many hang on to their seats in states that he loses.

You have [Donald] Trump and [Ted] Cruz battling it out, and the moderate establishment candidates like Chris Christie or Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, John Kasich - they have formed a circular firing squad.

None of the candidates are ever perfect, ok? Then you have to get them in there and you have to hold them accountable. You have to make noises.

The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.

The candidates unleashing heated words about race, bigotry, and intolerance. Donald Trump chasing the minority vote and hurling a blistering accusation at his opponent.

All of the candidates agree that the Democratic Party needs to undergo fundamental reforms.

Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent of what they give to males.

I don't get asked a lot of questions about who is the best political candidate or what my position is on what the Senate is about to do.

Under the system that we now have to nominate presidential candidates, for instance, I would prefer that we have a system that is closer to, say, the one we had in the 1960s.

You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.

The press really is not doing its job of holding their [the candidates'] feet to the fire. ... The tough questions are not what are you in favor of, but how are you going to get it through Congress?