Candidates Quotes - Page 20

• There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.

  Gail Collins

  Running, White, House

  "No Longer Debatable — Campaigns Matter". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. October 3, 2012.

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• 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

  Jobs, Creativity, Passion

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• I want to be the candidate placed on the ballot by the people, not the party.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Party, People, Want

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• The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice are immediate and discernible.

  George Will

  Average, Car, Choices

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• In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history.

  Juan Williams

  College, Florida, Worst Case Scenario

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• The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.

  Juan Williams

  Winning, Presidential, Political

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• While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to religious feelings. Some of the genes likely to be involved are those which control levels of different chemicals called neurotransmitters in the brain.

  Robert Winston

  Religious, Personality, Feelings

  "Why do we believe in God?" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2005.

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• I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.

  Bob Woodward

  Character, Thinking, Giving

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• I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Ideas, Trying

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• If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.

  Howard Zinn

  People, Vote, Given

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• One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.

  Hanna Rosin

  Party, Issues, Tea

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• No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to terms with the living process through which people choose products or candidates; they are looking at what people just bought or thought, and making calculations based on that after-the-fact data.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Technology, Data, People

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.8, Penguin

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• A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work.

  Bill Bryson

  Two, Age, Leisure

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• I heard one presidential candidate say that what this country needed was a president for the nineties. I was set to run again. I thought he said a president IN his nineties.

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, Country, Presidential

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom she's romantically besotted.

  Glen Duncan

  Girl, Years, Three

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.

  Charles Bukowski

  Baby, People, Evil

  "Ham On Rye". Book by Charles Bukowski, 1982.

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• When we support or vote for candidates outside the two major political parties we are immediately lectured about wasting our vote or making it easier for the less desirable of the two major candidates to claim victory. These lies are repeated every election and they must be ignored. You never waste your vote if you vote your conscience.

  Glenn Beck

  Lying, Party, Two

  Glenn Beck (2009). “Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• October is the cruelest month of any election year, but by then, the pain is so great that even the strong are like jelly and time has lost all meaning for anybody still involved in a political campaign. By that time, even candidates running unopposed have abandoned all hope of victory and live only for the day when they will finally be free to seek vengeance on all those treacherous bastards who once passed themselves off as loyal friends and allies and swore they were only in it because they all shared the same hopes and dreams.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Dream, Strong

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

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• We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me - and I welcome their hatred.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Hate, Struggle

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at Madison Square Garden, New York City, October 31, 1936).

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• If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Doubt, May, Want

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.321, Penguin

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• To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Years, Three

  "Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890".

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• Somehow I had come to believe that because a person is in need, they are candidates for sympathy, not just charity. It was not that I wanted to buy her groceries, the government was already doing that. I wanted to buy her dignity. And yet, by judging her, I was the one taking her dignity away.

  Donald Miller

  Believe, Government, Judging

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.54, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Ignorance, Track, Ignorant

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• When I propose a candidate for a job I don't do it because the person in question is the best but because he is the one the client will employ. I provide them with a head that is good enough, placed on a body they want. [...] The world is full of people who pay serious money for bad pictures by good artists. And mediocre heads on tall bodies.

  Jo Nesbo

  Jobs, Artist, People

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• There aren’t many honest men or women in Washington anymore. Politicians get where they are by the sheer force of their egos, not their convictions. And you know what? It’s our fault as voters. We don’t demand better candidates, so we end up getting what we deserve—on both sides of the aisle.

  Brad Thor

  Men, Ego, Demand

  Brad Thor (2012). “Brad Thor Collectors' Edition #3: The Last Patriot, The Apostle, and Foreign Influence”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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