Candidate Quotes

Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots.

At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.

It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not.

When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to shreds again - from both the political opponents and the media.

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

Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment.

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

I want to be the candidate placed on the ballot by the people, not the party.

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.

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 would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.

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.

With 500 channels and the Internet available, you'd think a candidate could get the word out.

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.

The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.

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.