Top 240 Candidates Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Candidates Quotes from famous people such as Ronna McDaniel, Rebecca MacKinnon, Marc Benioff, Eric Adams, Martin Filler, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I hate generalizing. But what I've seen, from what I've

I hate generalizing. But what I’ve seen, from what I’ve observed, fundraising’s an issue for women candidates.
Ronna McDaniel
Internet companies created the social-media tools that fueled the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street insurgencies, and that have helped political candidates rally grass-roots support.
Rebecca MacKinnon
My approach to politics is that I’m not a Democrat or a Republican. I’m an American and I always support candidates I think are great for the country.
Marc Benioff
America is saying, we want to have justice and safety and end inequalities. And we don’t want fancy candidates.
Eric Adams
Some museum boards think that choosing an architect can be reduced to a science, but it comes down to a matter of taste, pure and simple. A shortlist of prospective designers speaks volumes about the likely outcome. If the candidates’ styles are too divergent, the search committee doesn’t know what it wants.
Martin Filler
If you look at the other 16 candidates who ran for president, they’re politicians. Everybody on the Hill knows them. And sometimes they know their families. No one really knows Donald Trump.
Sean Duffy
When people go to vote still in Britain, they will look at their local representatives, but I don’t think there is a sort of cult of personality politics. Obviously, they want to know who the leader is for each party, but I think there is a lot of identification with their local candidates.
Sajid Javid
Many candidates use a political autobiography to sell their candidacy.
Ari Melber
The number-one defender of the Second Amendment rights is the National Rifle Association. The NRA works tirelessly to elect pro-Second Amendment candidates, and it fights fearlessly to win tough public policy battles and preserve those rights.
Thom Tillis
The 2008 Democratic presidential candidates would be wise to note that unwarranted negativism is dangerous and badly underestimates the strengths of the American people to adapt to and prosper with change.
Bernard L. Schwartz
Maybe instead of asking political candidates to submit tax returns, we really should be asking to see their brain scans.
Daniel Levitin
I think what separates me from the candidates is the fact that I have a proven track record of being a fighter. A fighting for what people believe in, whether it is popular or not. Despite the opposition, I stand true. Because people know that I will do what I say. And that I say what I do.
Michele Bachmann
It’s very easy for the candidates to talk about how conservative they are, how conservative they will be.
Phil Gingrey
Start-up teams are always in flux, so, like all start-ups, we’re always talking to candidates for various key roles.
Sean Parker
We have always had many more franchisee candidates than available locations.
Fred DeLuca
Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.
Jack Germond
The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software – there’s a shortage of talent.
Xavier Niel
No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to terms with the living process through which people choose products or candidates; they are looking at what people just bought or thought, and making calculations based on that after-the-fact data.
Douglas Rushkoff
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.
Jack Kemp
Quite frankly, Oklahomans are pretty smart. They know how to choose candidates.
James Lankford
Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.
Robert Teeter
The fact is, when you hear the Republican candidates on immigration, when you see them and hear them talk about contraception, mammograms, abortion, and not the economy, it’s clear to me they’re moving farther and farther away from the mainstream.
Antonio Villaraigosa
It’s important to know enough about all of the candidates to make an informed choice, and our candidate is Hillary Clinton.
Marcia Fudge
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.
J. C. Watts
As the leaders of this great country, I urge my fellow colleagues in the House, governors, and presidential candidates alike to hold ourselves up to a higher standard.
Mike Quigley
It seems the more shallow and mean the candidates are the more they rise in the polls.
Paul F. Tompkins
When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view.
Tim Robbins
Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn’t been scripted.
Jack Germond
Socially conservative Republican presidential candidates would do best to unite around policies that will both strengthen marriage and protect religious liberties – rather than fruitlessly trying to tell fellow Americans who they can and can’t marry.
Margaret Hoover
In addition to being extremely expensive, and we have to put up with the stupidities that the candidates repeat, it’s really being decided elsewhere who will sit in the presidential seat.
Subcomandante Marcos
Party machinery is not a fortuitous development, but is the direct result of the requirements of practical politics. The necessity of nominating candidates for offices leads inevitably to the development of caucuses and conventions.
Charles A. Beard
I've had four presidential candidates visit me in the t

I’ve had four presidential candidates visit me in the tents, and they all lost. I tried to get Hillary down here, but she’s too smart. She won’t come to the tents.
Joe Arpaio
I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bill Clinton. There was always a point where you look in their eyes and they knew it was over. And there was never that point with Clinton. He never quit. He never gave up.
Dee Dee Myers
This is about these particular candidates in this particular year. That’s what motivates me.
David Dinkins
One of the traditional rites of passage for political candidates is the revelation of financial status – a catechism-like recital of money mistakes made and debts owed.
Stacey Abrams
The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.
Thomas Bulfinch
The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I’m doing is breaking into the country club.
Howard Dean
I debated in high school! If you told things that weren’t true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It’s too bad they don’t apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students.
Mark Hamill
Presidential primary debates are an important part of our political process. But the media has wrested complete control from the parties and candidates over everything, including the number, the format, the qualifications, and the moderators. And they’ve become a circus.
Mark McKinnon
It would be a lot cheaper for me not to have to raise tens of millions of dollars to elect progressive candidates who will raise my taxes.
Chris Sacca
The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates.
Pete McCloskey
The GSEs became powerful advocates for their own bottom lines, providing substantial financial support for political candidates who supported the GSE agenda.
Jerome Powell
Any time you get into a presidential campaign and the stakes are so high, all candidates – they want to be in complete control whenever they can. And you can’t blame them for that.
Bob Schieffer
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.
Tim Scott
I believe we all have the right as private citizens to endorse candidates and participate in the political process.
Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Today, grass-roots Republicans want to drink a bottle of 2010 small-government wine, but our candidates were bottled in another era, before the tea party’s ideas took root.
Ari Fleischer
That would be the biggest shake-up Washington ever had, if big money didn’t dictate who the candidates were and who got elected.
Virgil Goode
I don’t think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates.
Ken Mehlman
It’s an unfortunate fact that in the male black population, a very significant percentage of them, more so than whites or other minority candidates, because of convictions, prison records, are never going to be hired by a police department. That’s a reality. That’s not a byproduct of stop-and-frisk.
William Bratton
The candidates we have in this campaign are… the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we’ve had since 1960. One of them will be successful.
Hillary Clinton
I never thought that Trump was going to run for president, but I was very firmly on record, including in the book that I wrote before, ‘Adios, America,’ as saying that Republicans should stop wasting their time with these novelty candidates.
Ann Coulter
Often, when we support the ‘right’ causes and candidates, we fail to recognize that with progress comes sacrifice. That sacrifice might mean that you are no longer the obvious choice for the job. Your job security may no longer be a given.
Nina Shaw
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.
Erskine Bowles