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• When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.

  Ariel Durant

  Order, Knighthood, Chivalry

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• The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

  Horatio Alger

  Prayer, Night, Fasting

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• I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.

  Ed Gillespie

  Past, Years, Political

  Interview with PBS, www.pbs.org.

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• Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Wise, Growth, Problem

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.154, Random House

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• We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionall y limited government. We have to have more people come to Congress with that mindset. I think we can make this a better place, if, when elections happen, we support candidates who share that philosophy.

  Mike Lee

  Philosophy, Believe, Thinking

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• In one of his puckish moods Saul talked the president of a university into letting him anonymously take an examination being administered to candidates for a doctorate in community organization. "Three of the questions were on the philosophy of and motivations of Saul Alinsky," writes Saul. "I answered two of them incorrectly."

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Motivation, Philosophy, Writing

  Nicholas von Hoffman (2010). “Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• If the nearly one-and-a-half million babies aborted in America each year could, somehow, vote, chameleon candidates would find fresh reason to be concerned about abortion, whereas now they are unconcerned.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Baby, Years, America

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• I don't think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates.

  Ken Mehlman

  Thinking, People, Looks

  "RNC Chairman: Hillary Clinton Too Angry to Win Over Voters", www.foxnews.com. February 5, 2006.

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• I welcome the signing by the presidential candidates Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and Dr. Ashraf Ghani of an agreement on the formation of a government of national unity in Afghanistan.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Government, Agreement, Presidential

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• All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.

  Aldous Huxley

  Personality, Political, Principles

  Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

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• 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

  Community, Presidential, Black

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• I'm not just a candidate, I'm the President

  Barack Obama

  President

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• The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club.

  Howard Dean

  Country, Party, Moving

  "Running on Instinct" by Mark Singer, www.newyorker.com. January 12, 2004.

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

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Real, Views, Issues

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• The only candidate pocketing big money from people who want to destroy coal is Mitch McConnell.

  Alison Lundergan Grimes

  People, Coal, Want

  "Mitch McConnell, Alison Lundergan Grimes Attack Each Other On Coal" by Robert Farley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2014.

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• Race is still a powerful force in this country. Any African American candidate, or any Latino candidate, or Asian candidate or woman candidate confronts a higher threshold in establishing himself to the voters ... Are some voters not going to vote for me because I'm African American? Those are the same voters who probably wouldn't vote for me because of my politics.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Powerful, Race

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• Again and again, Americans have voted for a president to keep them out of a war, only to see the "peace" candidate elected who then brings the nation into war.

  Howard Zinn

  War, President, Again And Again

  Howard Zinn (1997). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.383, Seven Stories Press

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• We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like - the anti-war government nig... America was a source for division around the world, that what we were doing was wrong.

  Rick Santorum

  War, Government, America

  "Rick Santorum: Another Slip of the Tongue but Was It the 'N-word'?". www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Ron Paul may be the wackiest candidate in the GOP field. But for pure, blind stupidity, nobody beats Santorum. In my 20 years in the Senate, I never met a dumber member, which he reminded me of today.

  Rick Santorum

  Years, Stupidity, May

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• The not-visibly-insane Democrats all claim they'll get rough with the terrorists, but they can't even face Brit Hume. In case you missed this profile in Democrat machismo, the Democratic presidential candidates are refusing to participate in a debate hosted by Fox News Channel because the hosts are "biased." But they'll face down Mahmoud Ahmadinejad! At this, even Hillary Clinton was thinking, "Come on, guys - let's grow a pair."

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, Guy, Presidential

  "No Wonder They're Afraid of Brit Hume" by Ann Coulter, townhall.com. May 3, 2007.

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• If you have reservations about the system and want to change it, the democratic argument goes, do so within the system: put yourself forward as a candidate for political office, subject yourself to the scrutiny and the vote of fellow citizens. Democracy does not allow for politics outside the democratic system. In this sense, democracy is totalitarian.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Office, Political, Democracy

  "Diary of a Bad Year". Book by J. M. Coetzee, 2007.

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• I was proud to have been the anti-establishment candidate after more than twenty years in politics, a small town guy fighting for the ordinary Canadian.

  Jean Chretien

  Fighting, Years, Guy

  "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chrétien, 1985.

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• Our old - fashioned system is better than any new - fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but there is something I find appealing in putting a mark on a piece of paper for the candidate of your choice, as opposed to pulling a lever as if you were gambling on a slot machine in Las Vegas.

  Jean Chretien

  Vegas, Gambling, Choices

  Jean Chretien (2010). “My Years as Prime Minister”, p.287, Vintage Canada

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• I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus-group tested, blow-dried candidate or governor.

  Chris Christie

  Blow, People, Focus

  "Christie struggles to distance himself from George Washington Bridge traffic scandal". Interview with Ben Knight, www.abc.net.au. January 10, 2014.

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• I don't think the federal government or federal candidates should be making decisions on everything and opining on everything.

  Rick Santorum

  Thinking, Government, Decision

  Source: www.pbs.org

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