Political Candidates Quotes

• We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Witty, Freedom

  "The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin’s Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe’s Neighbors, His Almanack, Comic Drawings". Book by Kin Hubbard, October 1, 1984.

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• If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Voting, Political Wisdom

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?

  Erica Jong

  Art, Media, Selling Things

  Erica Jong (1994). “The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller”, p.4, Grove Press

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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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• 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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• Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent of what they give to males.

  Maureen Reagan

  Giving, Political, Males

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• One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Resent You, Support, Political

  "Murdoch's eldest will inherit power" by Stephen Brook, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2006.

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• Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on a smaller scale and lacks the advantage of having made enormous soft-money campaign contributions to political candidates.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Children, Humorous, Kids

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.722, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Our Supreme Court has lifted the practice of buying legislation to the level of a constitutional principle by repeatedly protecting corporate spending for and against political candidates, as well as promises and threats of such spending to bribe and blackmail such candidates, by appeal to the free-speech clause of the First Amendment.

  Thomas Pogge

  Practice, Political, Promise

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I don't get asked a lot of questions about who is the best political candidate or what my position is on what the Senate is about to do.

  Max Lucado

  Political, Position, Candidates

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• A September 2015 poll found that, by a 3-1 margin, voters are more likely to support political candidates who favor raising the minimum wage.

  David Rolf

  Political, Support, Minimum Wage

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think it may be that the fans of your least-favorite political candidate, whoever it is, are much more likable and light-side types than you might think going in. One way to reach them is to talk about Star Wars.

  Cass Sunstein

  Stars, War, Thinking

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• You see sort of the difference in the way that Marco Rubio was talking in that kind of way. That kind of [Donald] Trump imitating way, which is designed to connect with certain people who want to see that from their political candidates as opposed to kind of speaking in the measured tones that we`re used to from Republican politicians who are trying to become president.

  Donald Trump

  Talking, Differences, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We have felt for some time that if political candidates or their staff are willing to make the pilgrimage to North Iowa, the least we can do is show hospitality. And it's also a wonderful way to get to know these people who make our political system work.

  Kurt Meyer

  Iowa, People, Political

  "'Tranquility' Is A Way Station On Iowa's Campaign Trail". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 24, 2015.

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• I think all of us could insist on preserving the truth and preserving the peace. We could insist that political candidates tell the truth about controversial issues. And secondly, we should be sure to encourage our political leaders, after they're elected, to preserve the peace.

  Jimmy Carter

  Thinking, Issues, Leader

  "President, Peanut Farmer and Sunday School Teacher". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• I have always gone through public life and saying that with respect to political candidates, I always measure each candidate against what I think the country needs at that time, and I will vote for the person I think who is most qualified to serve the nation at that time.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Thinking, Political

  "Interview With Former Secretary Of State Colin Powell". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 2, 2011.

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• I have on many occasions spoken my mind from stage. I have offered organizations table space by the merch booth. I have donated a dollar-a-ticket, or the entire guarantee, to different causes. I have registered voters. I have played on behalf of political candidates.

  Conor Oberst

  Organization, Space, Political

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• America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.

  Mark McKinnon

  Law, America, Self

  "America’s Artists Are the Ultimate Entrepreneurs: Let’s Give Them a Hand" by Mark McKinnon, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2011.

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• Television is likely to do more to revolutionize politics than sound broadcasting did. Political candidates may have to adopt new techniques to benefit from visual radio: their dress, their smiles and gestures, all will be important. How they look, as well as what they say, may determine to an appreciable extent their popularity. The eyes of the public will be upon them.

  David Sarnoff

  Eye, Political, Important

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• Even more dramatic, Alex Todorov at Princeton has shown us that judgments of political candidates' faces in just one second predict 70 percent of U.S. Senate and gubernatorial race outcomes, and even, let's go digital, emoticons used well in online negotiations can lead to you claim more value from that negotiation. If you use them poorly, bad idea. Right? So when we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others, how they judge us and what the outcomes are. We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals, and that's ourselves.

  Amy Cuddy

  Thinking, Ideas, Race

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