Quotes of: Candidate Keyword

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.

Jim Hightower

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

Foster Friess

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

Jack L. Chalker

I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.

Bob Graham

Vote Smart has sent out thirty thousand questionnaires to every candidate running for office.

Betty Hill

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

Horatio Alger

Mrs. Iselin: Why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?

The Manchurian Candidate

It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races.

Christie Hefner

Some candidates can sit in an office for 10 hours a day asking for money. That's just not who I am.

Paul Sadler

I like candidates who tell me something that is going to make a difference to me.

Ann Richards

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

Candide

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.

Thomas Kuhn

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

Mickey Kaus

If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.

Karen DeCrow

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

Nicolas Sarkozy

A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard.

Peter Camejo

Newt changed the frame of reference of all of our candidates. That's why we won so big in 1994.

Pete du Pont

You never agree with any one candidate 100 percent. I don't agree with myself 100 percent.

Rudy Giuliani

Belonging to one party is acceptable. But my days of just ticking the party box are long over. I judge the candidates for who they are.

Rob Lowe

Mandates are not objective realities but subjective interpretations of elections sold successfully by the winning candidate or party.

Thomas E. Mann

I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.

Laurance Rockefeller