Candidates Quotes - Page 19

• Every time a candidate came up from the base, that is with popular support, the Republican establishment went into high gear to destroy them with massive propaganda attack ads and so on. It was one after another, each one crazier than the last.

  Noam Chomsky

  Support, Gears, Lasts

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Christians living in a democracy should always vote if they can. If they cannot in conscience bring themselves to vote for any of the candidates on offer (in the UK quite often there are several candidates for a parliamentary seat) they might consider deliberately spoiling the ballot paper as a sad protest which still says 'but I believe in being involved'.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Believe, Democracy

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• Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.

  Eric Alterman

  Party, Class, Tea

  Eric Alterman (2011). “Kabuki Democracy: The System vs. Barack Obama”, p.156, Nation Books

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• If I were a white candidate, I'd have won the Democratic nomination.

  Jesse Jackson

  White, Nominations, Democratic

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• [If the Democratic nominee turns out to be] Walter Mondale, I hope he picks Representative Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. It would be a desperate move, but that's what it'll take to get rid of Reagan. Ms. Ferraro is no more unqualified than a lot of Vice Presidential candidates have been, and anyhow Mondale's in good health.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Running, Moving, Presidential

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• I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Ideas, Trying

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• If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.

  Howard Zinn

  People, Vote, Given

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• One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.

  Hanna Rosin

  Party, Issues, Tea

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• No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to terms with the living process through which people choose products or candidates; they are looking at what people just bought or thought, and making calculations based on that after-the-fact data.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Technology, Data, People

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.8, Penguin

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• A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work.

  Bill Bryson

  Two, Age, Leisure

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• I heard one presidential candidate say that what this country needed was a president for the nineties. I was set to run again. I thought he said a president IN his nineties.

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, Country, Presidential

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom she's romantically besotted.

  Glen Duncan

  Girl, Years, Three

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots

  James Stockdale

  Kings, President, Telephones

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• The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure [science] fiction. Theories and laws do not bring matter/energy into existence. The view that they nevertheless somehow have the capacity seems a rather desperate refuge...from the alternative possibility...Trying to avoid the clear evidence for the existence of a divine intelligence behind nature, atheist scientists are forced to ascribe creative powers to less and less credible candidates like mass/energy and the laws of nature.

  John Lennox

  Atheist, Clever, Views

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• Russia and Ukraine are candidates for the entry to the WTO and their dispute would be easy to understand and tackle if they are both members of this organization.

  Pascal Lamy

  Russia, Ukraine, Organization

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• It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Systematic, Tests, Solutions

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• Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance.

  Richard V. Allen

  Team, Years, Names

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• There is only one candidate in this election who can universally mobilize conservatives, and as evident from the variety of primary victors, none of them is a Republican. It's Hillary Clinton.

  Matt Labash

  Election, Republican, Clinton

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• Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Sports, Hoping For Something, Fame

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• Companies who have been able to groom CEOs internally have done significantly better. We came to the conclusion that the quality of several of the reviewed internal candidates was so high that it did not merit to go outside.

  Jorma Ollila

  Quality, Done, Able

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• I am a registered Democrat (there are only two Republicans in Maryland and they're both in office) and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office myself.

  Jack L. Chalker

  Two, Office, Unsuccessful

  "Dance Band on the Titanic".

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• I want to be president because I have the sensitivity, as a woman, to listen. I'm a different candidate... different because I don't belong to powerful, privileged groups, because I'm honest.

  Josefina Vazquez Mota

  Powerful, President, Groups

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• At Rome there were nothing even vaguely resembling modern political parties - although given the stifling impact of these, this may well have made it more rather than less democratic than many countries today - and each candidate for office competed as an individual. Only rarely did they advocate specific policies, although commenting on issues of current importance was more common. In the main voters looked more for a capable individual who once elected could do whatever the State required.

  Adrian Goldsworthy

  Country, Party, Rome

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• I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community.

  Ken Mehlman

  Issues, Community, Presidential

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• Some good souls found The Candidate cynical. I wonder what they'll think when they read this portrait of the real-life Jerry Brown... This is the book that could force the little fox into the open.

  Jeremy Larner

  Real, Book, Thinking

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