Candidates Quotes - Page 31

• A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard. I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming.

  Peter Camejo

  Party, Would Be, Green

  "Raw Data: Foxnews.com Interviews Peter Camejo". Foxnews.com Interview, www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2004.

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• Income and wealth inequality have reached obscene levels, the threat of climate change is more frightening than ever, and the billionaire class is now allowed to spend unlimited amounts of money to buy the candidate they want. And it is up to us to stand up and fight back. If we stand together, there is no limit to what we can accomplish.

  Bernie Sanders

  Fighting, Class, Together

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• Every candidate running for president has got to answer the following very simple question: At a time when we need to address the planetary crisis of climate change, and transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and into energy efficiency and sustainability, should we continue to give $135 billion in tax breaks and subsidies over the next decade to fossil fuel companies?

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Simple, Giving

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• Given a choice between two bald political candidates, the American people will vote for the less bald of the two.

  Victor Gold

  Two, People, Choices

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• The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.

  Marcus Sakey

  Beer, People, Voting

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• I believe we have to move, eventually in our country, toward a system of public financing that really works for candidates running for federal office. I will support that as president.

  Janet Napolitano

  Running, Country, Believe

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• The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time when religious and political institutions are so busy engraving images of marketable gods and candidates that they lose their vision of human dignity, the arts have become the custodians of those values which most worthily difine humanity, which most sensitively define Divinity.

  Robert Shaw

  Spiritual, Religious, Art

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• There's only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He's half African-American. Whether that will make any difference, I don't know. I haven't heard him have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation in the ghettos. Payday loans, predatory lending, asbestos, lead. What's keeping him from doing that? Is it because he wants to talk white? He doesn't want to appear like Jesse Jackson? We'll see all that play out in the next few months and if he gets elected afterwards.

  Ralph Nader

  Strong, Ghetto, White

  "Obama using 'white guilt,' Nader says" by Alexander Mooney, www.cnn.com. June 26, 2008.

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• I wonder who really is the change candidate? It can't be both of them [Hillary Clinton & Barak Obama]. What would be a black man and a woman - how could that be different than the 43 other Presidents we've had?

  Jon Stewart

  Men, Black, President

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• I have read that during the process of canonization the Catholic Church demands proof of joy in the candidate, and although I have not been able to track down chapter and verse I like the suggestion that dourness is not a sacred attribute.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Track, Joy, Catholic

  Phyllis McGinley, Gerald Durrell (1969). “Birds, beasts, and relatives”, Viking Adult

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• No political party is justified to continue in existence unless it clearly states the principles which it advocates, the platform upon which its candidates stand, and then with integrity, when and if elected, carry out those principles and live up to that platform. Except that be the case, we as Latter-day Saints should not align ourselves to any party, because we do not have the basis upon which we can make an intelligent decision. We must know what they stand for before we can favor them with our vote.

  Henry D. Moyle

  Integrity, Party, Intelligent

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• People who refuse to accept unpleasant truths have no right to complain about politicians who lie to them. What other kind of candidates would such people elect?

  Thomas Sowell

  Lying, People, Complaining

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• There are some who would have a presidential candidate describe and explain his church's distinctive doctrines. To do so would enable the very religious test the founders prohibited in the Constitution. No candidate should become the spokesman for his faith. For if he becomes President he will need the prayers of the people of all faiths.

  Mitt Romney

  Religious, Prayer, People

  Faith in America, delivered 6 December 2007, College Station, TX

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• The key question for many voters is: How much is the candidate offering for my vote?

  James Bovard

  Keys, Offering, Voters

  James Bovard (2015). “Attention Deficit Democracy”, p.183, Macmillan

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• The American people should be free to advocate for their candidates and their positions without burdensome limitations.

  Mitt Romney

  People, Should, Position

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• It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate.

  Richard Dawkins

  Suicide, Presidential, Political

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.67, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Maybe for John McCain the American dream means seven houses-and if that's your America, John McCain is your candidate. But for the rest of us, the American dream means one home - in a safe neighborhood, with good schools and good health care and a little money left over every month to go out for dinner and save for the future. Does that seem like too much to ask? John McCain thinks it is.

  Tim Kaine

  Dream, Home, School

  "Kaine's two America's" by Ben Smith, www.politico.com. August 28, 2008.

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• America is the largest corporation on the planet. You wouldn't hire a novice to run a similarly sized company in the private markets. My father has created more jobs through his private businesses than certainly any of the candidates. Mitt Romney has executive experience, but it's a different type. He didn't run entrepreneurial businesses.

  Ivanka Trump

  Running, Jobs, Father

  "Ivanka Trump: The Interview" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 16, 2011.

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• A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Get Money, Vote, Rich

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• Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.

  H. L. Mencken

  Matter, Decorum, Should

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• Being a little older is not going to win election. Being a little younger might, especially if the older candidates, Hillary Clinton included, can`t make the case that they have learned something that the younger crowd doesn`t know.

  Chris Matthews

  Winning, Crowds, Littles

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Let's not forget, Sarah Palin may not have a golden touch, but she gave Christine O'Donnell candidate a big touch that got her over the top.

  Chris Matthews

  May, Golden, Forget

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think that the candidates who are doing it [not debating] are doing a great disservice to the party. It`s a sign of an unhealthy institution.

  Chris Matthews

  Party, Thinking, Institutions

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Republicans are taking the possibility of [Donald] Trump as nominee seriously enough that the committee that oversees next year's Senate races laid out a confidential seven-page blueprint for candidates on how to run with Trump at the top of the ticket.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Running, Race, Years

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Republicans advising candidates to "grab onto the best elements of [his] anti-Washington populist agenda," but warning that Trump is a "misguided missile," "subject to farcical fits" and candidates should avoid getting drawn into "every Trump dust-up," but should quickly condemn some of his comments, including "wacky things about women."

  Dalia Mogahed

  Dust, Agendas, Elements

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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