Candidates Quotes - Page 22

• A platform is something a candidate stands for and the voters fall for.

  Gracie Allen

  Fall, Voters, Platforms

  "How to Become President". Book by Gracie Allen, 1940.

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• You know, I think, people of all stripes in California, Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals, frankly, as I have traveled the state, the number one issue is jobs. And they are looking for which candidate can get the economy back on track.

  Meg Whitman

  Jobs, Thinking, California

  Interview with Teddy Davis, abcnews.go.com. November 17,2009.

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• Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

  Harry Reid

  Country, Light, Racism

  "Harry Reid’s Non-Gaffe" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 10, 2010.

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• Tainting the Tea Party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There's no evidence that Tea Party adherence are any more racist than other Republicans and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats in November, having one's opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.

  Mary Frances Berry

  Distance, Party, Winning

  "Andrew Breitbart on 'Hannity': 'This Is Not About Shirley Sherrod'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 20, 2010.

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• We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks.

  Newt Gingrich

  Political, President, Finest

  "Newt Gingrich: Obama Is 'Food Stamp President'". www.cnbc.com. December 6, 2011.

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• Gunn would be an important figure-rewarding, delightful, accomplished, enduring-in the history of English-language poetry even were his life not as fascinating as it now seems; he would be an important figure in the history of gay writing and in the history of transatlantic literary relations even were his poetry not so good as it is. With his life as it was and his works as they are, he's an obvious candidate for a volume of retrospective and critical essays, and this one is first-rate.

  Stephen Burt

  Writing, Gay, Important

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• The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.

  Susan Estrich

  Party, Character, Presidential

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• 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

  Believe, Reality, Political

  "The Return of Big Government". www.weeklystandard.com. March 9, 2009.

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• I think we should know about candidates desires and views, but I think it would be a mistake to assume that they will become reality.

  Sung Won Sohn

  Mistake, Reality, Thinking

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• While patriotism is often lauded as an unquestionable value, the status of patriotism is a problem for many thoughtful people. It is particularly troublesome for people who care about the common good but are alienated by the all too frequent use of patriotism and patriotic symbols to stifle debate, tarnish the images of rival candidates, or arouse popular support for aggressive military policies.

  Stephen Nathanson

  Military, Patriotic, Thoughtful

  Stephen Nathanson (1993). “Patriotism, Morality, and Peace”, p.11, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Mudslinging - In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called 'making a good point.

  Richard Turner

  Political, Doe, Opponents

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• Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

  Lamar Alexander

  Winning, Race, Presidential

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• Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Men, Political, President

  Jimmy Breslin (2012). “Table Money: A Novel”, p.204, Open Road Media

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• I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and to be elected as a member of the Legislature.

  Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr.

  Political, Politics, Legislature

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• Despite romantic fantasies about caring candidates who learn of America in donut shops, most politicians rely on media to teach them what concerns the average person.

  Dick Morris

  Caring, Media, Average

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.117, St. Martin's Press

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• I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: ... At the end of the war in the Persian Gulf, press for a comprehensive Middle East settlement and for a 'new world order' based not on Pax Americana but on peace through law with a stronger U.N. and World Court.

  George McGovern

  War, Order, Law

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• I think utopianism and eschatology are really two sides of the same coin. They both assume that some massively transformative event is going to happen that's going to completely change the nature of society. They only disagree on whether we get a happy ending or all die horribly. And so utopianism is on the wane right now because at the moment most of the plausible candidates for huge historical transformation look like they're going to kill us.

  Phillip Sandifer

  Thinking, Two Sides, Historical

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• Libertarian presidential candidate André Marrou's idea is that "government power is opposed to individual liberty." Must we still debate such sophomoric notions?... Besides, liberty, although very important, is not the only value.

  George Will

  Government, Ideas, Presidential

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• We know that Obama wasn't vetted through the campaign, and now, you know, some things are coming home to roost, if you will, which is inexperience, his associations, and that ultimately harms our republic when a candidate isn't-isn't vetted by the media, that cornerstone of our democracy.

  Sarah Palin

  Home, Media, Democracy

  "Today's Power Play: Bloomberg Bid Would Help Obama" by Chris Stirewalt, www.foxnews.com. November 17, 2010.

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• I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Vote, Claims

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• I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.

  Harry Browne

  Temptation, Promise, Trying

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• A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard.

  Peter Camejo

  Party, Different, Would Be

  "Raw Data: Foxnews.com Interviews Peter Camejo". Foxnews.com Interview, www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2004.

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• A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.

  L. Neil Smith

  Jobs, Winning, Presidential

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• Nothing will motivate conservative evangelical Christians to vote Republican in the 2008 presidential election more than a Democratic nominee named Hillary Rodham Clinton - not even a run by the devil himself ... I certainly hope that Hillary is the candidate. She has $300 million so far. But I hope she's the candidate. Because nothing will energize my [constituency] like Hillary Clinton. If Lucifer ran, he wouldn't.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, Running, Presidential

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• My only wish isto transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, devotees of prayer into devotees of work, candidates for the hereafter into students of the world, Christians who, by their own procession and admission, are half animal, half angel into persons, into whole persons.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Christian, Prayer, Angel

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