Candidates Quotes

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

As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?

The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.

Donald Trump's life has born fruit in jobs and generosity. He cannot be bought. He is not a puppet on a string like other candidates.

I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

We've got to go to the people with bold ideas and candidates of conviction - we've got to be hotter than high school love.

Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role.

The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.

The conservative candidate who ignores moderates is as misguided as the moderate candidate who ignores conservatives.

It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot.

If you want to get unpaid media coverage, you had better be quotable. It's an interesting problem, because very few candidates are quotable.

Both parties are injured by what is going on at Washington. Both are, therefore, more and more disposed to look for candidates outside of that atmosphere.

The Manchurian Candidate was the most important movie I was in, let's face it.

We are grateful to the Liberian people who volunteered for this important clinical trial and encouraged by the study results seen with the two investigational Ebola vaccine candidates.

Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.

I think the media and the candidates have got to talk about why the middle class is in decline and why we have massive levels of income and wealth inequality.

I favor candidates who are biblically oriented, who hold the views of the Ten Commandments.

I think they're more looking at these two candidates. It's a band of voters with which neither candidate has very high approval ratings.

I think that some of it is electoral - helping candidates that are willing to take dramatic actions, not just to say a few words about how climate change might be a problem.

To the new 'Apprentice' candidates I would say to follow your gut instincts, be yourself and get ready to work hard for the next few months. Oh, and try to have some fun!

If we had known we were going to win control of the Senate, we'd have run better candidates.

I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.

Like manchurian candidates, we have been made into manchurian consumers, who subconsciously buy when we are triggered by our brand masters.

A lot of celebrities relish politics and are eager to lend their names to candidates and causes. I never wanted to be a spokesman for anybody.

Remember, at the end of the day [election] campaigns are always about the candidates.

I think that the candidates who are doing it [not debating] are doing a great disservice to the party. It's a sign of an unhealthy institution.

It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races.

I always run ahead of the ticket [compared to Democratic presidential candidates]. But this time there were a lot of people that just voted party line, a lot more than usual.

The U.S. unemployment rate is the lowest it's been in nearly seven years. The job sector that has seen the most growth is in the field of Republican presidential candidates.

The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.

Thank heaven Election Day is over. No more campaign ads, no more mud-slinging, no more candidates pretending they're straight. It's over!

I watched the Republican debate. At one point, the candidates said there are no classes in America, a point then hotly debated by all six rich white guys that were there.

President Bush is not fazed by other candidates' war records. He said, I may have not fought in Vietnam, but I created one.

California's economy is declining so rapidly that candidates are asking 'Are you better off now then you were four minutes ago?'

My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.

Have you seen these Republican presidential candidates? I bet Obama is sorry now that he spent all that money on the new birth certificate.

The candidates at the Republican debate looked like a town council that was outlawing dancing. They looked like a board of directors that was lying about poisoning a river.

A September 2015 poll found that, by a 3-1 margin, voters are more likely to support political candidates who favor raising the minimum wage.

Despite romantic fantasies about caring candidates who learn of America in donut shops, most politicians rely on media to teach them what concerns the average person.

You can't get much more liberal than John Kerry is. I mean, he's my candidate, but, I mean, come on.

A number of the pundits said well, if a couple of the other candidates drop out, if you add their scores together they don't understand that as they drop out, we'll get the votes.

The highest and best use of our time that really matters over the next decade will be working to elect clean-energy candidates, especially in swing states and swing districts around the country.

George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.

The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.

As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college."

Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.

Republicans are good at standing by their candidate.

Such a closely divided election; Secretary [Hillary] Clinton won the popular votes.Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin - about 112,000 votes separated the two candidates as well.

Each congressional race really depends upon the candidates and how they carry the message.