Candidates Quotes - Page 16

• It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot.

  Ralph Nader

  Essence, Choices, Democracy

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits.

  Ralph Nader

  Leaving, Democracy, Limits

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• This batch [emails hacked from a top Hillary Clinton aide] shows [Donna] Brazile gave the [Hillary] Clinton campaign advance warning of questions the candidate might be asked at CNN events.

  Ari Shapiro

  Cnn, Email, Events

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Was that Donna Brazile, a CNN analyst, or a [Hillary] Clinton partisan? Two batches of emails posted by WikiLeaks show Brazile gave Clinton advisers a heads up about questions the candidate might receive at CNN events during the primaries.

  Donna Brazile

  Two, Cnn, Email

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think that most of the candidates [for presidency] can't run the railroad, and I still worry that whoever gets elected will have policies designed for political rather than practical reasons.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Running, Thinking, Worry

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• I'm not going to talk about supporting somebody for a long time. I don't know who the two party candidates are going to be.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Party, Two, Long

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• I don't have a problem with a woman being president; I just want the best candidate.

  Michael Bloomberg

  President, Want, Problem

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• [ Bernie Sanders' popularity] is exactly the same as Donald Trump's.It is a bunch of people who are disaffected with what the establishment has done, and they are striking out. Do they have any clear idea of what they want as an alternative? No. The candidates that they have surrounded themselves with either have no idea or are promising things that are so impractical they will never get done.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Ideas, People, Alternatives

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• Those of us and so many other stalwart critics and opponents and questioners and dissidents in conservative media were attacked for doing what those people in the mainstream media should have been doing. Do your job! Subject these political candidates to the same amount of scrutiny that you are now trying to compensate for with the incoming Trump administration!

  Michelle Malkin

  Jobs, Media, Should Have

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Candidates run for election on campaign promises, but once they're elected they renege on those promises, which happened with President [Barack] Obama on Guantánamo, the surveillance programs and investigating the crimes of the Bush administration. These were very serious campaign promises that were not fulfilled.

  Edward Snowden

  Running, Promise, President

  "Edward Snowden: A 'Nation' Interview". Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel, Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• In 1980, evangelicals overwhelmingly elected a candidate who was a known womanizer when he was in Hollywood. He would be the first divorced president in U.S. history. His name was Ronald Reagan. And when evangelicals voted for Reagan, they weren't endorsing womanizing. They weren't endorsing divorce. They were endorsing Reagan's policies.

  Robert Jeffress

  Divorce, Names, President

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think that's why Donald Trump continues to enjoy evangelical support. They're not endorsing necessarily his lifestyle. What they're saying is this is a binary choice between one candidate, Donald Trump - who is pro-life, pro-religious liberty, pro-conservative justices of the Supreme Court - and another candidate, Hillary Clinton, who has an opposite view on all of those issues.

  Robert Jeffress

  Religious, Thinking, Opposites

  Source: www.npr.org

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• By voting for a candidate, we're not endorsing a particular lifestyle. We're simply voting on the issues.

  Robert Jeffress

  Issues, Voting, Lifestyle

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I worry about women globally. When we talk about having a presidential candidate who would tear up the Paris accords, who doesn't believe in global warming, we know that poor women and children are going to be the most vulnerable when we start seeing rapid effects of global warming.

  Patricia Arquette

  Children, Believe, Paris

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I joked at our National Convention that our party was nominating a candidate for president who was charismatic, larger than life, memorable, so they wanted to balance the ticket.

  Mike Pence

  Party, Memorable, Balance

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• The Republican - conservative Republican answer has always been when we lose it's because we're not ideological enough. If they lose midterm elections, that's why. If Obama defeats McCain and then Mitt Romney, it's because those two Republican candidates were not ideological enough.

  Sam Tanenhaus

  Two, Answers, Conservative

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina also criticized Donald Trump during the campaign, but now she was arguing that the new president deserves a chance to prove himself, and that, perhaps, you know, having a march just the day after his inauguration is kind of disrespectful.

  Michel Martin

  Presidential, Campaigns, Chance

  Source: www.npr.org

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• A number of African countries came to us and said, we request that South Africa should not field a candidate, because so many other African countries wanted to, and, in any case, South Africa would continue to play a role in terms of building the African Union, and so on. And they actually said, please don't field a candidate, and we didn't. As I have said, it is not because we didn't have people who are competent to serve in these positions.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, Play, Numbers

  Source: www.gov.za

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• If Democrats vote against everyone sight unseen, then Republicans will vote for everyone sight unseen. However, if Democrats demonstrate that they’re considering each candidate on the merits, they have at least a fighting chance of defeating one or two of Trump’s nominees.

  Kevin Drum

  Fighting, Two, Sight

  "There’s a Good Reason Democrats Aren’t Opposing Every Trump Nominee Unanimously" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 27, 2017.

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• Donald Trump is an independent presidential candidate who ran on the Republican label. He really did. He took it over. He transformed it into his image, in his likeness.

  Mark Shields

  Independent, Presidential, Labels

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Hillary Clinton should be president not because she's a woman but because she's the best for the job. I don't think that any woman should be asked to vote for someone because she's a woman, and that - because the candidate is a woman.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Jobs, Thinking, President

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I think a primary always makes the other candidate a better candidate because you're battle-tested and you have to think in ways that other people are thinking in addition to your own vision, how to incorporate some fresher, newer thinking into all of that.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Thinking, People, Vision

  Source: www.politico.com

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• No one should be surprised that in the balance between national security and civil liberties, President [Donald] Trump, like candidate Trump wants to be more aggressive.

  Mark Halperin

  Balance, President, Liberty

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• When I ran I was a first candidate to talk about how immigration was going be so damaging to the American people. When I first ran I talked about affirmative-action.

  David Duke

  People, Immigration, Firsts

  "Dr. Duke on CNN: Hear the UNCENSORED FULL Interview Here". davidduke.com. January 5, 2015.

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• I look up at the screen and I see no difference between the way candidate Trump, president-elect Trump, and President Trump is being treated by many outlets.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Differences, President, Looks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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