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I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies. — Harry Browne

I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians. — John P. Wheeler III

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

I have made it my practice to not get involved in primaries because picking the Republican candidate is the voters' job. — Rick Scott

Today, possible presidential candidate Donald Trump released his birth certificate. It lists his eyes as blue and his hair as ridiculous. — Conan O'Brien

Josh Freeman will be an MVP candidate. — Warren Sapp

George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate. — Ed Gillespie

I think Governor Romney has a two-part budget plan that very much levels with voters far more so than any candidate in my lifetime. — Glenn Hubbard

I am not a party candidate, and if elected cannot be President of a party, but the President of the whole people. — Zachary Taylor

Never forget - someone else didn't get the job that day because you were the best candidate with the most unique combination of skills and talent. — Carla Harris

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has taken American politics by storm. — Sean Hannity

Every candidate is going to come to you and say they are the most conservative person that ever lived. — Ted Cruz

I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is. — Glenn Greenwald

I want to be the candidate placed on the ballot by the people, not the party. — Andrew Cuomo

I'm not sure a candidate ever feels his message is getting out. — Scott McCallum

You want women around to reflect their experiences and see a female candidate through their particular prism. — Rebecca Traister

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate. — Dylan Moran

LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he "lost his election". — Ambrose Bierce

If I were a white candidate, I'd have won the Democratic nomination. — Jesse Jackson

Often President Obama's worst critics are Senator Obama and candidate Obama. — Peter Schiff

The best way to appreciate our political process is to volunteer for a campaign and support a candidate you believe in. — Rob McKenna

Thrilled that Gov. Romney enjoys my old character. I enjoyed the character he used 2 b 2. If he'd embrace that again, he'd b a great candidate. — Jason Alexander

Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television? — Art Buchwald

With 500 channels and the Internet available, you'd think a candidate could get the word out. — Larry King

to buy us.' 'The candidate wants to get here fast,' Mike was saying. 'Too fast, — Daniel Pembrey

Hillary Clinton is also not a very exciting, inspiring candidate to a lot of the left-leaning Democratic base, especially in Iowa. — Mara Liasson

What is important is the victory of the people, not of a candidate. We must unite for the good of Madagascar's people, and we are going to succeed. — Andry Rajoelina

I will vote for the first candidate who promises to use nuclear missiles against LinkedIn. — Dave Barry

Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate. — Eric Sevareid

In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins. — Susan Estrich

I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march. — Al Sharpton

Cheer is for fools with idle minds. I am neither a fool nor idle. — Rachel E. Carter

Grant made the perfect candidate, a war hero with indistinct views on most political issues. — H.W. Brands

No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq. — Dick Morris

I ended up going to Dartmouth, and I did Marine Officer Candidate School during my junior summer. — Phil Klay

I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign. — Jack Abramoff

Finding a job that is a good fit is as much about you selecting the right company as it is about them selecting the right candidate. — Miles Anthony Smith

Many a man, under the old and the new systems, has made the upward step from candidate to legislator, only to achieve his level of incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter

It's hard to be a son of a candidate. It's hard to be a brother of a candidate. I think it may be the hardest thing to be the dad of the candidate. — Jeb Bush

As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton. — Nancy Gibbs

A portion of the electorate will always levitate toward the scratch and sniff candidate, granting them superficial appeasement without any substance. — T. Rafael Cimino

Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition. — Timothy Noah

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

Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits? — Thomas Jefferson

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. — Eugene McCarthy

You can't be the candidate and the campaign manager. — Roger Stone

It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate. — Richard Dawkins

I'm the perfect candidate to be affected by SARS. I'm highly susceptible to infections. — Ron Santo

I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central. — Lucy Powell

I hopes the candidate [Donald Trump] is given fake intelligence briefings ... because you can't trust him. — Harry Reid

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

In order to be a top-tier candidate, I need 7.5 million dollars, and I currently have 0.0 million dollars. — Stephen Colbert

I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith. — Gary Bauer

Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight. — Robert Green Ingersoll

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself. — Karl Rove

Barcelona are always a candidate to win the Champions League. — Luis Suarez

I am very proud to be the only candidate up here who does not have a Super PAC, who's not raising huge sums of money from Wall Street. — Bernie Sanders

I am not now, nor will I ever be, a candidate for offensive coordinator of Iowa. — Marco Rubio

Another thing the Democrats have grown accustomed to is their candidate is untouchable. — Rush Limbaugh

Obviously a candidate has to be held responsible for the words that come out of his mouth, regardless of where they came from. — Roger Stone

As a candidate, Obama projected himself as a new Reagan, above narrow party politics. He wanted to please all but has ended up annoying many. — Tariq Ali

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour. — E.B. White

I consider myself an excellent candidate ... because I care. — Vincent Frank

I think I'd be a prime candidate for canonisation. — Morrissey

Dogs are great assets to candidates, and the feeling seems to be engendered that if a dog loves the candidate, he can't be all that bad. — Dick Gregory

Manchurian Candidate work was done under MKULTRA Subproject 136, which was approved for funding on August 23, 1961. — Colin A. Ross

Anyone wishing to hold office will be disqualified from being a candidate based on his desire to hold office. — Edward M. Wolfe

At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones. — Marcus Allen

I consider myself a significant supporter of any candidate I work for, and I am certainly generous, I think, with my own funds. — Kenneth Langone

Jesus. Who does he think he is? He's always out partying and drinking with his friends. I do it once and all of a sudden I'm a candidate for AA. — Lauren Barnholdt

I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice ... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it. — Hosni Mubarak

The lesson is that voters in both parties are in a very anti-establishment, populist mood. Hillary Clinton is the establishment candidate. — Mara Liasson

The American people in my view will never support a candidate whose major theme is bigotry. — Bernie Sanders

Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are. — Jesse Ventura

I'm very much engaged in the political battles, but I'm doing it as a supporter of Republicans out of conservatism rather than an active candidate. — Mitt Romney

Republicans are good at standing by their candidate. — George Clooney

If you looked at Jeb Bush's campaign, it's more than just money. It's the nature of the candidate and the message and all that stuff. — Bernie Sanders

Loyalty is never built upon honor, brother. It is built upon blood. — Rachel E. Carter

The smart employer looks not for perfection but for an explanation of how the consequences of a dishonorable act affected the candidate and others. — Bruce Weinstein

Hast thou attuned thyself to the suffering of humanity, O candidate for light? — H. P. Blavatsky

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

It doesn't matter if the Republican or the Democratic candidate wins the governorship [of Hawaii]. Either one is already in the kingdom, — Ed Silvoso

The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought. — Mary Cheney

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

Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President. — Samuel L. Jackson

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

The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff. — Adlai Stevenson

The question we face is whether this candidate can succeed. The question we seem to answer is whether she interviews well. Let's not substitute. — Daniel Kahneman

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life. — Alan Rudolph

I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision. — Todd Akin

I'm really the candidate who has really lived his whole life in suburbia. — Bob McDonnell

They are brothers," Benny repeated softly. "That is a bond you cannot break. — Rachel E. Carter

I believe that any candidate who supports the war should not receive our support. It doesn't matter if they're Senator Clinton or whoever. — Cindy Sheehan

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. — J. C. Watts

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

The Manchurian Candidate was the most important movie I was in, let's face it. — Angela Lansbury

what remotely educated or even half-conscious living being could consider John McCain a fit candidate for anything? — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other. — Stanislaw Lem

Once you reject fear, you will become the perfect candidate to receive and reflect Truth. — Suzy Kassem

Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment. — Ron Fournier