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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
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
as intended. — Noam Chomsky
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
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
in that they will devastate black communities. — Stephen Colbert
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
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
The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.
— Susan Estrich
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
One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.
— Hanna Rosin
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