Famous Quotes & Sayings

There should be a transformation and reform in our electoral system starting with the moral fiber of our own candidates including the leadership in the commission and our field people.

There's nothing that we do that would cause a candidate to quit the course.

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.

I showed empirically that in the general election those crossover voters stayed with the candidate they had crossed over to support in the primary. A lot of Republicans preferred her in 1976 and stayed with her.

Bob Barr

Presidential and vice-presidential debates are not about campaign staff or consultants, and it is high time we as a people took control and reminded them and their candidates of that important fact.

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

Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.

Marcus Samuelsson

While I hold my own political views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the real issues.

Marianne Williamson

In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.

We called some candidates to relocate signs last week and when they were not moved this past weekend, we removed them. We collected 63 signs from six different candidates. We are not picking on anyone.

Sheldon Whitehouse

When you don't have accountability, there's no limit to the things that people will say. One of the restraints on the vitriol and the filth that so often is part of the American political debate is that candidates have to stand by their ads.

We clearly no longer are just the land of Humphrey and Mondale. We are a swing state, and I think you'll see a lot of candidates making their way here over the next two-and-a-half years.

We have four viable candidates to win the job.

Aaron Klein

When Obama was first proposed as a presidential candidate in 2007, the nation failed to have a meaningful debate concerning the serious constitutional issue of electing someone whose father was not a U.S. citizen.

We will do what we can to be helpful. We will be talking to all the various campaigns. The president wants to play a role in the final two weeks of the election -- helping Democratic candidates around the country, from the vice president to the first lady to various congressional members.

When a candidate looks at a community, they're looking to see if there's a match. Don (Yeoman) felt the challenge is the right challenge, but he had concerns about the support for education in the community.

We would have preferred a candidate who had a clear record on these issues.

This survey tells us that candidates who support pre-K have a better chance of winning at the polls.

Jacques Chirac

This summit of Nice will remain in European history as a summit that shaped the Union. It was important to keep our commitments to the candidate countries in central and eastern Europe.

There have been wealthy candidates before in California, but this is the first time we've seen wealth-on-wealth. The most obvious impact for voters is that they are going to see lots and lots of television ads.

Karen Hughes

We are now in uncharted waters. We're in an unprecedented period where a presidential candidate is going to court essentially to try to contest and overturn the results of an election that has now been certified.

We are well prepared. We even proposed a postponement before the candidate registration period closed.

There is no question that John Faso and I have different opinions of who should be our candidate for governor this year that is clear. But at least our party is providing John an opportunity to seek the nomination.

Harry Reid

We want him to give us a candidate who is mainstream, not extreme.

most of those are on our target list of candidates that we're going to go after next fall.

The reality is candidates always do what candidates have to do. A candidate is going to go in and say, what do we need to do to win?

The reality is candidates always do what candidates have to do.

Bill Gross

I would like GE and other companies to be more candid in terms of disclosing exactly how they do these things, ... If they grow earnings, then let's hear about it and find out how much comes from those types of maneuvers.

My candid response is it's extremely poorly reasoned and is not well decided.

We have one county with 20 percent of the (district's) population and that's Rock Island County. We have to field a candidate that can carry Rock Island County.

We invite all the candidates to come and share their concerns and views. In the past some have not shown up but they are given the opportunity to come.

I thought he was a very effective interim leader. I was disappointed that he evidently didn't consider himself to be a candidate for the permanent job. I think he stabilized the company during a disruption in the management team.