Candidates Quotes - Page 13

• Sarah Palin is an attractive candidate, but based on her background, she only was governor for what, two years. I don`t think she passed that test.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, Years, Two

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. January 19, 2016.

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• I actually think the debate is a good idea because if internationally somehow we can bring home to Americans that their decision about who they select as their candidate has international implications then by all means we should.

  Kit Malthouse

  Mean, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• So Republican candidates bash Obamacare and move up in the polls. Given that public opinion remains firmly against the health care law - as it has been for years - that's not a shock. Democratic beliefs to the contrary are probably wishful thinking.

  Byron York

  Moving, Thinking, Years

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• Something peculiar has happened. As I write, none of the Republican candidates for Senate has become a public embarrassment. On the contrary: For the first time in a decade, it is the Democratic candidates, not the Republican ones, who are fodder for late-night comics. That the Democrats are committing gaffes and causing scandals at a higher rate than Republicans not only may be decisive in the battle for the Senate. It could signal a change in our politics at large.

  Matthew Continetti

  Writing, Night, Battle

  "The Macaca Democrats" by Matthew Continetti, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 17, 2014.

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• There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates have performed better than they have in years. For the moment, today, as you read this, the Democratic candidates are the jokes.

  Matthew Continetti

  Years, Today, October

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• To win in November, Republican candidates must show they are in touch with voter concerns about growth, jobs, paychecks, government spending and debt. The only way to do this is by offering specific, persuasive ideas.

  Karl Rove

  Jobs, Winning, Offering

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• Not all Masons are obligated on the Christian Bible. Masonry is universal and men of every creed are eligible for membership so long as they accept the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man. Therefore, the candidate should be obligated on the Book of the Sacred Law which he accepts as such since his obligation is a solemn and binding one.

  George Washington

  Christian, Book, Men

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• The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of holy living, and displays the conduct which is pleasing and acceptable to God. The doctrines and examples which distinguish the Order are obvious, and suited to every capacity. It is impossible for the most fastidious Mason to misunderstand, however he might slight or neglect them. It is impossible for the most superficial brother to say that he is unable to comprehend the plain precepts and the unanswerable arguments which are furnished by Freemasonry.

  William Howard Taft

  Brother, Blessed, Men

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• I would not have suffered my name to have been used by my friends on anywise as President of the United States, or candidate for that office, if I and my friends could have had the privilege of enjoying our religious and civil rights as American citizens, even those rights which the Constitution guarantees unto all her citizens alike.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Religious, Freedom, Names

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• It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another very real problem whereby an election could be tilted towards a favored candidate.

  Bob Barr

  Memories, Real, Mind

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• I do not see that the sex of the candidate is an argument against her admission as a Privatdozent. After all, the Senate is not a bathhouse. Objecting to sex discrimination being the reason for rejection of Emmy Noether's application to join the faculty at the University of Gottingen.

  David Hilbert

  Sex, Rejection, Discrimination

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• If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Voting, Tickets

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910”

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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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