Candidate Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal.

I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake.

And if I were the president, I'd go out there and I'd emphasize the things I have done, and I'd say, 'Some things haven't worked, and I'm sorry about that, but I keep trying.' And I'm - and I think the president is a very viable candidate, and you're going to have a real horse race here no matter who the Republican nominee is.

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.

Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.

You can't exactly bake a man to your specifications. Most of all, one shouldn't alienate a candidate. A hybrid of Einstein, Tarzan and Inge Meysel doesn't exist. Besides, the images of politicians in the media aren't always accurate. I've had my share of experiences in that regard.

I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen.

African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.

Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.

While I can't promise you that I'm going to be a perfect candidate and I can't promise you that I'm not going to make mistakes, I can unequivocally promise you that no one, no one, will work harder on your behalf, no one will fight harder with you and no one will make you more proud.