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California's economy is declining so rapidly that candidates are asking 'Are you better off now then you were four minutes ago?' — Craig Kilborn

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

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign. — Jeb Bush

What makes the Arabs suitable candidates for democracy is their heritage as human beings, not their specific cultural or historical antecedents. — Gwynne Dyer

Josh Freeman will be an MVP candidate. — Warren Sapp

Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates. — Reed Hundt

I think Nevada is going to really be the first true test of whether or not these candidates have particular strengths in particular demographics. — Lucy Flores

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

In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani. — Conan O'Brien

The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves. — Hunter S. Thompson

I tell people it's like shopping for a car.People are taking candidates out for a test drive, seeing what they like. — John Thune

All of the candidates agree that the Democratic Party needs to undergo fundamental reforms. — Martin Frost

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

Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I'll be damned if Rick Perry didn't take me up on that. — Bill Maher

Given a choice between two bald political candidates, the American people will vote for the less bald of the two. — Victor Gold

One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected. — Bernard Meltzer

I'm an independent, straight in the middle. I've donated to candidates that I thought would be good that are Republican and Democrats alike. — John Paul DeJoria

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

Citizens are starting not to excuse political candidates who have web sites that do nothing but throw virtual confetti. — David Weinberger

On almost all issues, citizens could not identify the stands of the candidates
as intended. — Noam Chomsky

We need a wide variety of ways for voters to get a good look at our candidates. — Hillary Clinton

Sometimes we're actually right when we go with our gut and stand on principle in supporting underdog candidates. — Sarah Palin

You didn't leave your party. Your party left you. Forget about party labels. Just vote on the issues and for candidates who support equality. — Gloria Steinem

Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed. — John Podhoretz

As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or 'scholarship candidates,' but 'Fellows of another college. — G.H. Hardy

I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community. — Ken Mehlman

I like to see candidates who are busy finding what they are good at and what they enjoy. I call it being busy with a purpose - WHIM — Garrett Miller

The candidates that can't face Fox, can't face al Qaeda. — Roger Ailes

Donors, like voters, increasingly expect candidates to exercise fiscal discipline. — Mark McKinnon

The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street. — Kin Hubbard

Remember, at the end of the day [election] campaigns are always about the candidates. — Chris Christie

It is through separation that you will win: no representatives, and no candidates! — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

You can never find a candidate that will agree with everything you believe. Then you would just have a clone and that doesn't exist. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

It's no surprise I am addicted to all the Republican presidential candidates. They are like crack
in that they will devastate black communities. — Stephen Colbert

Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances. — Jodi Kantor

The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent. — Xavier Niel

I'm the candidate who forgot to take off her hat before she threw it in the ring. — Gracie Allen

If I thought he had magic fingers, his lips were candidates for the Houdini Hall of Fame. — Katie MacAlister

I use job interviews for two things. First, to recruit people. Second, to get some help with my work. I give job candidates problems I can't — Robert I. Sutton

Each congressional race really depends upon the candidates and how they carry the message. — George W. Bush

Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs. — Paul Krugman

Both candidates for president talk about balancing the budget ten years from now. Even if they win, they won't be in office then. — Virgil Goode

When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view. — Tim Robbins

Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum. — H.L. Mencken

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. — Gore Vidal

The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon. — P. J. O'Rourke

This is a very crucial period and we have got five fantastic candidates. All of them would make excellent leaders of the Party. — Harriet Harman

Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money. — Robert Scheer

The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork. — Walter Lang

The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture? — Jef I. Richards

The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more. — Henri Frederic Amiel

The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party]. — Leon Trotsky

When I am the candidate, I run the campaign. — Richard M. Nixon

If free will exists, why do the tallest candidates with the best hair usually win elections ? — Scott Adams

Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role. — Kim Campbell

If we had known we were going to win control of the Senate, we'd have run better candidates. — Bob Dole

Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media. — Maureen Reagan

By the end of 'Game Change,' one feels that the candidates' few happy moments are those when they 'lose it.' — Tina Brown

This is about these particular candidates in this particular year. That's what motivates me. — David Dinkins

Does it make any sense at all that the chair of a national party would want fewer voters to see our candidates? — Hillary Clinton

I think we should know about candidates desires and views, but I think it would be a mistake to assume that they will become reality. — Sung Won Sohn

Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture. — Eleanor Clift

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one. — Will Rogers

Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote. — Zephyr Teachout

Republican primary voters, whether they're close primaries or open, are voting for anybody but candidates attached to the Republican establishment. — Rush Limbaugh

A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it. — Jim Lehrer

The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates. — Thomas Jefferson

My approach to politics is that I'm not a Democrat or a Republican. I'm an American and I always support candidates I think are great for the country. — Marc Benioff

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. — Jimmy Breslin

Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates. — Barbara Mikulski

Have you seen these Republican presidential candidates? I bet Obama is sorry now that he spent all that money on the new birth certificate. — David Letterman

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

It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts. — Will Rogers

Thank heaven Election Day is over. No more campaign ads, no more mud-slinging, no more candidates pretending they're straight. It's over! — Craig Ferguson

Recruiting is about filling the pipeline of qualified candidates with a network-driven plan and bench-strength building mindset. — Stacy Feiner

Ultimately, presidential campaigns are - or at least should be - about the candidates, not their spouses or surrogates. — Andrew Rosenthal

Assumed to be australopithecines because there are no other known candidates. I — Bill Bryson

The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values. — Susan Estrich

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

Start-up teams are always in flux, so, like all start-ups, we're always talking to candidates for various key roles. — Sean Parker

Good luck to progressive candidates in U.S. Senate elections against the usual rich, white, racist, women-hating pricks they run against. — Irvine Welsh

Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates. — Carol S. Dweck

I don't know if the presidential candidates are running for the White House or Animal House. — Bob Hope

We must train our 'future candidates' on not only how to win elections but how to govern well. — Fela Durotoye

God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election. — James Dobson

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

In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect. — Karl Rove

Pandering candidates often promise that they can make the pain go away. — Gail Collins

One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues. — Hanna Rosin

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. — Jay Leno

I think President's candidates need shock collars or something. — Ted Cruz

Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises. — Jim DeMint

Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads. — George W. Bush

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around. — Ronald Reagan

My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money. — David Frum

A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife. — Sydney J. Harris

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle. — Rose Kennedy

One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business. — Rupert Murdoch

The ban directly hampers the partys ability to spread its message and hamstrings voters seeking to inform themselves about the candidates and issues, — Thurgood Marshall

If you are feeling overly optimistic the Republican Candidates Debate is on. — Kristen Schaal