Candidate Quotes

First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.

I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama.

Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.

It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

Is Romney a tea party candidate? I'd probably say that he's the least of the candidates running for president right now that would be considered a tea party candidate.

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

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

I consider myself an excellent candidate... because I care.

I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.

I never would have believed as a candidate for the U.S. Senate that the U.S. government could buy GM without a hearing, with no vote, yes or no. There are billions and billions of dollars at stake here.

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.

The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself.

Basically what they're saying is, if you want to be on TV, if you want to be a credible candidate, you've got to buy ads. And if you're not buying ads, you're not a credible candidate, we don't cover you.

Now the fact that terrorists throughout the world see this as an opportunity to defeat the United States, we have to be - and every Democratic candidate, even those who opposed us going in, now say we just simply can't cut and run.

I believe that any candidate who supports the war should not receive our support. It doesn't matter if they're Senator Clinton or whoever.

I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.

I want to be president because I have the sensitivity, as a woman, to listen. I'm a different candidate... different because I don't belong to powerful, privileged groups, because I'm honest.

A 527 doesn't have a wife. It doesn't have a brother-in-law who knows a lot about politics, or a union president who calls and doesn't like the color of the suit, or bimbo eruptions. It's the perfect candidate, because it has no personal characteristics.

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.

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

There's always a risk when the candidate becomes president: Will he deliver what is expected of him?