Candidates Quotes - Page 6

• When I listen to candidates spend all their time attacking Barack Obama, I'm glad they're not driving this bus because they'd be looking through the rear-view mirror. I look through the windshield at the road ahead.

  John Kasich

  Mirrors, Views, Looks

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• Ben Carson and I don`t have much in common politically. But the fact is when you have kids getting involved in the political process, doing their best to elect the candidates of their choice, that`s what the American democracy is about.

  Bernie Sanders

  Kids, Choices, Political

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like - the anti-war government nig... America was a source for division around the world, that what we were doing was wrong.

  Rick Santorum

  War, Government, America

  "Rick Santorum: Another Slip of the Tongue but Was It the 'N-word'?". www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.

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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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• Our old - fashioned system is better than any new - fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but there is something I find appealing in putting a mark on a piece of paper for the candidate of your choice, as opposed to pulling a lever as if you were gambling on a slot machine in Las Vegas.

  Jean Chretien

  Vegas, Gambling, Choices

  Jean Chretien (2010). “My Years as Prime Minister”, p.287, Vintage Canada

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• If you have reservations about the system and want to change it, the democratic argument goes, do so within the system: put yourself forward as a candidate for political office, subject yourself to the scrutiny and the vote of fellow citizens. Democracy does not allow for politics outside the democratic system. In this sense, democracy is totalitarian.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Office, Political, Democracy

  "Diary of a Bad Year". Book by J. M. Coetzee, 2007.

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• I think especially in such an unstable economic environment, what people criticized him [Mitt Romney] for in 2008 his consistency, the fact that he was so strong, and I think people will find that appealing going into the 2012. That’s one of the things that I like about him — because he’s been consistent since he changed his mind.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Strong, Thinking, Years

  "O'Donnell: I Like Mitt's Flip". CNN Interview, www.politico.com. December 14, 2011.

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• I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus-group tested, blow-dried candidate or governor.

  Chris Christie

  Blow, People, Focus

  "Christie struggles to distance himself from George Washington Bridge traffic scandal". Interview with Ben Knight, www.abc.net.au. January 10, 2014.

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• While I hold my own views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the real issues

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Real, Views, Issues

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• The right to participate in the choice of representatives for Congress includes, as we have said, the right to cast a ballot and to have it counted at the general election whether for the successful candidate or not.

  Harlan F. Stone

  Successful, Choices, Election

  United States v. Classic, 313 U.S. 299, (318), 1941.

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• This is a very crucial period and we have got five fantastic candidates. All of them would make excellent leaders of the Party.

  Harriet Harman

  Party, Leader, Excellent

  "Abbott Will Give Male Rivals a Good Run, Says Harman". www.bbc.co.uk. June 13, 2010.

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