Candidates Quotes

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  It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

  George MacDonald

  Power, Men, People

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• [Two of the most unpopular presidential candidates selected by the two parties in history] indicates that there is a lot of cynicism out there. It indicates that the corrosive nature of everything from talk radio to fake news to negative advertising has made people lack confidence in a lot of our existing institutions.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Two, People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your [Hillary Clinton] damn e-mails!

  Bernie Sanders

  Tired, People, Sick

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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

  Ron Fournier

  Presidential, Honest, Surprise

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• We can take this country back. All we need is to nominate the right candidate. It's no more complicated than that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Needs, Complicated

  Keynote Address to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 28 February 2009, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Rip, People, Voters

  "Interview with Representative Dennis Kucinich". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 30, 2011.

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• During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.

  Everett Dirksen

  Political, Campaigns, Politics

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• There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny.

  Tom Ford

  Strong, People, Today

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• Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

  Dick Gregory

  Marriage, Political, Promise

  Dick Gregory (1972). “Dick Gregory's political primer”

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• If you work through the existing structures you are going to be corrupted. By working through political system that poisons the atmosphere, even the progressive organizations, you can see it even nowadays in the US, where people on the "Left" are all caught in the electoral campaign and get into fierce arguments about should we support this third party candidate or that third party candidate. This is a sort of little piece of evidence that suggests that when you get into working through electoral politics you begin to corrupt your ideals.

  Howard Zinn

  Party, Organization, People

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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

  Bernard Meltzer

  Virtue, Democratic

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• I feel really urgent about this election. This is the first time in my voting life that I feel not only passionate about my candidate, but also that the alternative would be catastrophic. I want to help the best candidate win.

  Natalie Portman

  Winning, Voting, Firsts

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• George W. Bush is very vulnerable but not if you campaign the way the major candidates - except for Dean and Kucinich - are campaigning.

  Ralph Nader

  Campaigns, Way, Vulnerable

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• So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Ideas, Campaigns, Littles

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• I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.

  Pat Paulsen

  Song, Men, Years

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• The RNC has made a concerted effort to work with their allies with a real focus on what we can do to equip candidates with the resources to win in 2014 and beyond. There isn't a week that goes by that I don't see someone from the RNC at our weekly coalition meeting. Keep up the good work.

  Grover Norquist

  Real, Winning, Opportunity

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• The First Amendment is really at the very core of political speech, and political speech is at the core of the First Amendment. So, we want to be very careful to make sure that candidates for office are free to express their views so that people will make an informed choice. We don't want them holding back, and sort of concealing their views and then disclosing them afterwards.

  Alex Kozinski

  Views, People, Office

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them

  Franklin P. Adams

  Witty, Mean, Intelligent

  Nods and Becks (1944) p. 3

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• It's been just a year since the RNC committed to revamp the way they help our candidates with its 'Growth and Opportunity Project,' and already there are signs of improvement. From new leadership and initiatives in the digital arena, to improving the GOP ground game (as we just saw with David Jolly's victory in FL-13), to the historic decision to restructure the primary calendar and primary debates, the RNC's steps will help keep the House and to take the Senate in 2014, win the White House in 2016, and build for the future. Looking forward to more progress in the months ahead.

  Karl Rove

  Winning, Opportunity, Years

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• When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Self, Grace, Defense

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Failure: the Back Door to Success”, p.77, Moody Publishers

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• How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform; to entertain, when they might instruct; and to dazzle for an hour, when they are candidates for eternity!

  Hannah More

  Teaching, Might, Able

  'Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies' (1777)

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• I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening.

  Sarah Palin

  Gun, People, Listening

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• These are the people we elected and if we are not satisfied we should get new candidates. It is in our hands. It is our country. It is a very simplistic view that politicians are to blame for everything.

  Robert Stanfield

  Country, Views, Hands

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• My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life.

  Nick Cassavetes

  Daughter, Mother, Heart

  Interview With Scott B., www.ign.com. February 14, 2002.

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

  Dave Barry

  Witty, Technology, Promise

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2012

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