Top 500 Candidate Quotes

I learned a lot about America and a lot about Pat Schroeder, and that’s why I will not be a candidate for President.

I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.

Well, I’m not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I’ve learned quickly these last few days that if you’re not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.

Midterms behave very differently than presidential elections. Midterms, for a federal candidate, often times are a referendum on the president, where in presidential years, voters make two separate choices: one for president and one for a federal officeholder.

As a woman candidate myself, I know how important it was to be encouraged to run, to think outside of the box.

As a guy that had been told to drop out many times as I was coming up, I don’t think you should tell any candidate about what they should do and what decisions they should make.

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

I ran for Congress as a first-time candidate to fight to protect everyone with a pre-existing condition, to bring down the skyrocketing costs of healthcare and prescription drugs, to fight for clean drinking water, and to help restore civility and decency to our politics.

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

People have their constitutional right to contribute to a campaign and if they have discretionary money that they want to contribute to a candidate, whether a Republican or a Democrat, they should be able to do so.

For the record, I was heartbroken when my brother Jeb dropped out of the race for president, not just because he’s my brother but because he was clearly the best-qualified candidate, in both experience and temperament to lead the nation.

A candidate’s faith is not the only consideration, but should be a major consideration in electing the president of the United States.

I’m not going to opine as to whether I think a particular candidate can beat Donald Trump or not.

Activists need to educate themselves about the power of crypto currencies like Bitcoin, invented in 2009, and use crypto to leverage the success of their independent media gains to tip the balance of power away from the troika in ways that could never happen by backing a political candidate.

We can take this country back. All we need is to nominate the right candidate. It’s no more complicated than that.

I am totally a fringe candidate, and so is Bill Weld: you know, two Republican governors serving in heavily blue states, outspoken, small government guys, outspoken on the social liberal side. We’re fringe, totally. We’re fringe.

Trump seems to think he can win the White House with only the white vote. I believe that the only way to win the White House is with the Latino vote. If the Republican candidate cannot get 33 percent of it, he cannot win the White House.

I have a sense of destiny because of my mother, who was an extraordinary person but a terrible candidate for mother. She was like the god Cronus, who gave birth to his children in the morning and then ate them at night.

I don’t have many litmus tests, but this is one: Any candidate who doesn’t understand that we need to balance the budget should not be president of the United States.

No matter the candidate, every detail in a campaign is carefully and strategically framed for our consumption. The devil is in them.

Ah, political physics. Someone wins an election and, poof, they are a candidate for vice president. Ridiculous.

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.

I would say a successful campaign reflects the desire of the people who are there to support a candidate.

I’m the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity – using clean, renewable energy as the key – into coal country, because we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.

The candidate who knows the space and is really interested in a company rather than just applying for a job will be able to engage with everyone who’s interviewing him or her with interesting questions at the right level.

Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I’ve been around. He’s fresh, he’s new, he’s insightful.

Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words.

On the field, I went from an anonymous redshirt to a short-yardage specialist to a Heisman Trophy candidate. Off the field, I showed up as a wild kid and grew up.

That Rubio is an open-borders, Chamber-of-Commerce Republican is undeniable from his record, and when conservatives compare any candidate’s campaign promises to his voting record, they believe the record, not the promises.

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.

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

I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.

Without a clear diagnosis of why the candidate or party failed, there can be no clear consensus about how to move forward.

The top two goals of every presidential nominating convention are to unify the party and to define the candidate for the grueling weeks ahead.

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 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.

Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles – what baseball calls ‘make up’ and politics calls ‘character’ – the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture.

I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.

Through the potent example of his own life, President Obama enabled us to believe the best about America, and, therefore, about ourselves. That uplifting narrative – essentially equating the promise of America with his extraordinary life story – swept candidate Obama into the presidency.

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.

I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed.

Even when candidates have degrees from Harvard and Yale, they try to run as the candidate of the common man.

If Donald Trump has proved anything, it is that there is nothing more powerful than a candidate’s voice.

On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.

Even though I don’t agree with Donald Trump on everything, and I think there may be certain things or statements of his that I may disagree with, he is a better candidate by far than Hillary Clinton.

I’m waiting for the candidate who says, ‘I’m keeping things exactly the way they are. I like it this way.’

He has selected from a group of overwhelming candidates. This candidate was nominated to the Supreme Court because of his extremely overwhelming qualifications.

You call my candidate a horse thief, and I call yours a lunatic, and we both of us know it’s just till election day. It’s an American custom, like eating corn on the cob. And, afterwards, we settle down quite peaceably and agree we’ve got a pretty good country – until next election.

When it comes to music, we should be hoping for as outlandish a Republican candidate as we can get.

Every four years since 1988, I have voted for the Republican presidential candidate.

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

You can unite behind a candidate and a vision for America without rejecting another candidate and their vision, because in real life, opposed to party politics, we Democrats are on the same side.

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

The president is the one person who potentially could be the unifying figure in the country. And if the president or a presidential candidate basically writes off 40 states, then how in the world do the people in those 40 states feel like they have a stake in that person or that election?