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Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances. -- Jodi Kantor
If you are feeling overly optimistic the Republican Candidates Debate is on. -- Kristen Schaal
Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign. -- Jeb Bush
Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge. -- Charles Schumer
Candidates and their consultants keep making the same mistake. They assume that all independents are bundled neatly together ideologically between Republicans and Democrats. -- John Sununu
Candidates [Hillary Clinton and Donald trump], we look forward to hearing you articulate your policies and your positions, as well as your visions and your values. -- Lester Holt
The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial and in-kind, and corruption problems abound. -- Bradley A. Smith
Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended. -- Jack Germond
As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new. -- Dan Rather
Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads. -- Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely. -- Matt Taibbi
Candidates have been telling you that if elected they would 'pull you from this bog hole of financial misery.' Now is a good chance to get even with 'em, by electing 'em, just to prove what a liar they are. -- Will Rogers
Candidates run for election on campaign promises, but once they're elected they renege on those promises, which happened with President [Barack] Obama on GuantÃ¡namo, the surveillance programs and investigating the crimes of the Bush administration. These were very serious campaign promises that were not fulfilled. -- Edward Snowden
Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy. -- Fred Barnes
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. -- Jay Leno
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. -- Gore Vidal
One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues. -- Hanna Rosin
Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me! -- Stephen Colbert
The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful. -- Hillary Clinton
God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election. -- James Dobson
While I hold my own political 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
A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
It's going to be interesting to watch presidential elections in around 2040, when voters can dig up candidates' teenage angst pics and posts from old social media and discussion forum archives. -- Mikko Hypponen
In addition to being extremely expensive, and we have to put up with the stupidities that the candidates repeat, it's really being decided elsewhere who will sit in the presidential seat. -- Subcomandante Marcos
It's nice to have a lot of people in the field. Independent, third party, Libertarian, Reform and other party candidates can do what they want to do. I welcome them to the race. -- John Murray
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not. -- Alfred Nobel
There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners. -- Adam Rickitt
It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief. -- Gary Bauer
When you don't have accountability, there's no limit to the things that people will say. One of the restraints on the vitriol and the filth that so often is part of the American political debate is that candidates have to stand by their ads. -- Sheldon Whitehouse
Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust. -- Ralph Nader
Here is what the practical impact of Citizens United means. What Citizens United means is that corporations call hundreds of millions of dollars into television ads, radio ads, and other forms of advertising to defeat those candidates who stand up and take them on. -- Bernie Sanders
That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates. -- Donald Trump
It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not. -- Erskine Bowles
Blogging is a great way to show your talents and interests to prospective employers, while adding an edge to your resume. If you blog consistently it shows your dedication, passions and creativity - all of which are key attributes employers look for in job candidates. -- Lauren Conrad
Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words. -- Mark McKinnon
I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label. -- Jackie Robinson
Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in. -- H. L. Mencken
I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision. -- Colin Powell
For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights record, corruption, and rule of law. By not tackling these controversial topics, the candidates are protecting a strategic partnership with China at the expense of essential human values and beliefs. -- Ai Weiwei
Presidential candidates don't chew gum. -- Theodore C. Sorensen
Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises. -- Jim DeMint
I think President's candidates need shock collars or something. -- Ted Cruz
Donors, like voters, increasingly expect candidates to exercise fiscal discipline. -- Mark McKinnon
The candidates that can't face Fox, can't face al Qaeda. -- Roger Ailes
Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve. -- Ted Cruz
I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates. -- Jesse Jackson
The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous. -- Thomas Bulfinch
Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads. -- George W. Bush
I don't think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates. -- Ken Mehlman
Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates. -- Reed Hundt
The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry? -- Ross Perot
I trust people. So I make my music for people, not for candidates. -- Neil Young
I`ve never heard anybody [of president's candidates] talk about the poorly educated. -- Chris Matthews
I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns. -- Laurance Rockefeller
Each congressional race really depends upon the candidates and how they carry the message. -- George W. Bush
Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates. -- Carol S. Dweck
This is about these particular candidates in this particular year. That's what motivates me. -- David Dinkins
Remember, at the end of the day [election] campaigns are always about the candidates. -- Chris Christie
All of the candidates agree that the Democratic Party needs to undergo fundamental reforms. -- Martin Frost
Successful candidates follow a simple fundamental rule: Define yourself before your opponent can define you. -- Nina Easton
There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny. -- Tom Ford
It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner. -- Niklaus Wirth
Republican candidates have won whites with college degrees in every presidential election since polling began. -- Mara Liasson
[Tom] Steyer is specifically spending money on candidates who will take action against climate change. -- Jane Mayer
I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates. -- Bob Graham
I favor candidates who are biblically oriented, who hold the views of the Ten Commandments. -- Bill Bright
If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates. -- Howard Zinn
I don't know if the presidential candidates are running for the White House or Animal House. -- Bob Hope
If free will exists, why do the tallest candidates with the best hair usually win elections ? -- Scott Adams
The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates. -- Thomas Jefferson
The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win. -- Will Rogers
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the most disliked and untrusted candidates for president in American history. -- Jill Stein
Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum. -- H. L. Mencken
NHPrimary Trivia: The Republican candidates have not spoken to a black person since Herman Cain dropped out. -- Andy Borowitz
The American people should be free to advocate for their candidates and their positions without burdensome limitations. -- Mitt Romney
In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates. -- Michael Moore
We need a wide variety of ways for voters to get a good look at our candidates. -- Hillary Clinton
There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around. -- Ronald Reagan
One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business. -- Rupert Murdoch
Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists. -- Rich Lowry
Tolling plan is a wonderful opportunity for political pandering, and some candidates are taking full advantage of it. -- Robert James Thomson
Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote. -- Zephyr Teachout
Newt changed the frame of reference of all of our candidates. That's why we won so big in 1994. -- Pete du Pont
Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media. -- Maureen Reagan
Sometimes we're actually right when we go with our gut and stand on principle in supporting underdog candidates. -- Sarah Palin
If we had known we were going to win control of the Senate, we'd have run better candidates. -- Bob Dole
The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves. -- Hunter S. Thompson
In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect. -- Karl Rove
One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected. -- Bernard Meltzer
I just think that the independent voters are going to take their time and look at both candidates. -- Jim Talent
Wouldn`t it be great for some of the Republican candidates to stand up to the money guys -- Chris Matthews
Some businesses offer such a lousy customer experience that they are prime candidates for competition from Internet based stores. -- Walt Mossberg
It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits. -- Ralph Nader
Start-up teams are always in flux, so, like all start-ups, we're always talking to candidates for various key roles. -- Sean Parker
I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community. -- Ken Mehlman
I don't think the federal government or federal candidates should be making decisions on everything and opining on everything. -- Rick Santorum
Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs. -- Paul Krugman
Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates. -- Barbara Mikulski
[American Communist Party] legally exists in the U.S.A., it nominates its candidates in the elections, including Presidential elections. -- Joseph Stalin
The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values. -- Susan Estrich
Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed. -- John Podhoretz
Republican primary voters, whether they're close primaries or open, are voting for anybody but candidates attached to the Republican establishment. -- Rush Limbaugh
Some candidates can sit in an office for 10 hours a day asking for money. That's just not who I am. -- Paul Sadler
Given a choice between two bald political candidates, the American people will vote for the less bald of the two. -- Victor Gold
Republican primary voters, whether they're close primaries or open, are voting for anybody but candidates attached to the Republican establishment. -- Rush Limbaugh
It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts. -- Will Rogers
We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco. -- Sarah Palin
When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view. -- Tim Robbins
Thank heaven Election Day is over. No more campaign ads, no more mud-slinging, no more candidates pretending they're straight. It's over! -- Craig Ferguson
Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role. -- Kim Campbell
Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. -- Jimmy Breslin
Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. -- Jimmy Breslin
Good luck to progressive candidates in U.S. Senate elections against the usual rich, white, racist, women-hating pricks they run against. -- Irvine Welsh
I believe that presidential candidates actually have a responsibility to point out substantive differences: to point out perspectives that are different. -- John Edwards
Like manchurian candidates, we have been made into manchurian consumers, who subconsciously buy when we are triggered by our brand masters. -- Bryant H. McGill
Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I'll be damned if Rick Perry didn't take me up on that. -- Bill Maher
My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money. -- David Frum
There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections. -- David Ogilvy

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