Famous Quotes & Sayings

Condoleezza Rice

The United States is not going to support any particular political candidate or any particular party or list.

Tim Scott

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.

Tom Daschle

When you look at what John Edwards has done for working families, for people who have been fighting hard all their lives to make ends meet, I can't think of a more qualified candidate than John Edwards,

What this practice does is really put candidates on guard wherever they are, and make delivering speeches even to groups of supporters even harder.

We've reached our own economy of scale where we're being considered as the primary candidate for headquarters.

This many candidates can be daunting to voters. This forum allows the citizens to get to know more about the candidates. Plus, it gives the voters a chance to understand the important topics of our area.

This is the latest in a string of events that cause us serious concern about developments in Egypt, including reports of arrests of candidates and intimidation of voters in the recent parliamentary run-offs.

This is to give voters an informed choice about the candidates running for these two particular offices.

This is the time when good candidates decide whether they are going to run. And the atmospherics are not good for the party right now.

This is the time when good candidates decide whether they are going to run, ... And the atmospherics are not good for the party right now.

John Edward

They're interested in a candidate who they know could win some Southern states, which we have to do to win the general election. I'm the only candidate in the race, certainly now, who has any kind of record of being able to win a general election in a Southern state.

George McGovern

I hope Howard Dean is like George McGovern. I thought I was a pretty good candidate in 1972. It's true that I lost to Richard Nixon in the general election by a big margin. But that wasn't my mistake. That was the mistake of the voters

John Schuerholz

I hope he gets in there. I think he is a very deserving candidate and wonderful human being. He'd be a very wonderful recipient.

Jack Germond

I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

In Ward A and Ward C, in particular, you have a difficulty in getting candidates to run. A lot of times, you just have a single candidate. If you have everybody at large, and everybody can run, you have a chance to have more people running - and I always think that the more people who run, the better, because then you get more study and discussion of the issues.

In the past we found these fairs very successful for us. We've recruited very good candidates that have enjoyed coming over and we really enjoy being here.

In the race for U.S. Senate, John Spencer is the only candidate that stands firmly in support of securing our borders.

Rebecca MacKinnon

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.

Christine Pelosi

In politics, all candidates and volunteers are ambassadors to voters who expect better than parroting the politics of personal destruction. Being able to find common ground at the higher ground is what separates the stateswoman from the stuntwoman.

If you say that only conservative Republicans need apply, then you have diminished the pool of potential candidates significantly,

I never voted for a tax increase. I'm the only candidate in this race who can say that.

John Ridley

In every election cycle that I can recall, there comes a moment - or a few - where charges of elitism and claims of commonness are wielded by presidential candidates like a sword and shield: 'Vote for me 'cause I'm one of you. It's the other guy who's out of touch.'

Silvio Berlusconi

If there is a better candidate then I am willing to stand down.

I'm certain we'll have candidates step forward, but I couldn't speculate on who they may be at this time, because I don't know. It will be interesting to see who runs.

If Utah goes on February 5th, all these candidates have to come to Utah early in the schedule.

If you had a one person, one vote situation and if a Metro candidate was to win, there's a real risk that people from other parts of the province would look at it and say that wasn't fair, we were not fairly represented,

Mike Wallace

If you feel that strongly that we can get better candidates from California, let's get our next mayor or our next commissioner from there.

If you expect to win, you need a candidate with clear command of the issues.

Jack Kemp

If you're here legally, if you're here lawfully, you ought to be able to contribute to the candidate of your choice.

Paul Stamets

If you look on the fungal genome as being soldier candidates protecting the U.S. as our host defense, not only for the ecosystem but for our population... we should be saving our old-growth forests as a matter of national defense.

Hillary clearly right now is the candidate who is most unbeatable. She has organization and name ID and a large number of people who would do anything for her.

He's the guy who hangs around the country club and plays golf with legislators and is the insider candidate here.

Elizabeth Smith

I don't think some of the candidates addressed some of the issues that should have been addressed.