Candidates Quotes - Page 4

• Again and again, Americans have voted for a president to keep them out of a war, only to see the "peace" candidate elected who then brings the nation into war.

  Howard Zinn

  War, President, Again And Again

  Howard Zinn (1997). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.383, Seven Stories Press

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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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• 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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• Ron Paul may be the wackiest candidate in the GOP field. But for pure, blind stupidity, nobody beats Santorum. In my 20 years in the Senate, I never met a dumber member, which he reminded me of today.

  Rick Santorum

  Years, Stupidity, May

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• The Republican candidates are talking about ways to transition this program and it is a monstrous lie. It is a ponzi scheme to tell our kids that are 25 or 30 years old today, you're paying into a program that's going to be there. Anybody that's for the status quo with Social Security today is involved with a monstrous lie to our kids, and it's not right.

  Rick Perry

  Crazy, Lying, Kids

  The Republican presidential Debate at the Reagan Library, Simi Valley, California, www.nytimes.com. September 7, 2011.

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• A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to
  present himself for Holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a
  candidate precisely because of the candidate's permissive stand on abortion
  and/or euthanasia.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Evil, Abortion, Catholic

  Memorandum to Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington, D.C., 2004.

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• The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.

  Walter Lang

  Moon, Two, Mars

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• ...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is a gross violation of the cherished value of political equality. At the same time, it does not protect the interests of small states or racial minorities, nor does it serve as a bastion of federalism. Instead the Electoral College distorts the presidential campaign so that candidates ignore most small states - and many large ones - and pay little attention to minorities.

  George C. Edwards III

  College, Two, Presidential

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• As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college."

  G. H. Hardy

  Clever, School, Boys

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

  Eugene McCarthy

  People, Political, Democracy

  Eugene J. McCarthy (2004). “Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life”, p.124, Fulcrum Publishing

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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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• 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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• In ability choice education finance majorities people understanding voting A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to be one of the people. That means he must have the same superstitions, the same unbalanced prejudices, and the same lack of understanding of public finances that are characteristic of the majority. A better choice would be a candidate who has a closer understanding and a better education than the majority. Too much voting is based on affability rather than on ability.

  William Feather

  Education, Mean, People

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• The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Party, Mean, Race

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• What about our refusal to look squarely at the degradation of the planet we inhabit? In the last election cycle many candidates refused even to acknowledge the hard science, irrefutable science, of climate change. The president, while readily accepting the facts, has done far too little to alter them. How long are we, are you, prepared to wait?

  David Remnick

  Long, Waiting, President

  David Remnick's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 11, 2014.

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• So as far as leadership and patriotism goes, I think it's really important that those things have to take place. And I think he's the best Democratic candidate we've had since Bill Clinton. And that's coming from a Democrat.

  Toby Keith

  Thinking, Important, Bills

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• Today, possible presidential candidate Donald Trump released his birth certificate. It lists his eyes as blue and his hair as ridiculous.

  Conan O'Brien

  Eye, Hair, Blue

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• The conservative candidate who ignores moderates is as misguided as the moderate candidate who ignores conservatives.

  Mike Lee

  Conservative, Misguided, Moderates

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• The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review the mechanisms of large-scale integration that counterbalance the distributed anatomical and functional organization of brain activity to enable the emergence of coherent behaviour and cognition. Although the mechanisms involved in large-scale integration are still largely unknown, we argue that the most plausible candidate is the formation of dynamic links mediated by synchrony over multiple frequency bands.

  Francisco Varela

  Organization, Brain, Behaviour

  "The brainweb: phase synchronization and large-scale integration", Nature Rviews Vol 2, p. 229, 2001.

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• It's how you make decisions that matters, and that ought to be the question that people ask of any candidate for any executive office, whether it's mayor, governor or president. How do you make decisions? Who do you want in the room helping you make those decisions?

  Tom Vilsack

  People, Office, Decision

  "Energy Security". Interview with Vijay Vaitheeswaran, www.cfr.org. October 12, 2006.

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• If you haven't admired anybody in your whole life, you are the best candidate to be the world's greatest megalomaniac!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, World, Whole

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