Candidates Quotes - Page 24

I am a registered Democrat (there are only two Republicans in Maryland and they're both in office) and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office myself.

Jack L. Chalker

Two, Office, Unsuccessful

"Dance Band on the Titanic".

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I want to be president because I have the sensitivity, as a woman, to listen. I'm a different candidate... different because I don't belong to powerful, privileged groups, because I'm honest.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

Powerful, President, Groups

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At Rome there were nothing even vaguely resembling modern political parties - although given the stifling impact of these, this may well have made it more rather than less democratic than many countries today - and each candidate for office competed as an individual. Only rarely did they advocate specific policies, although commenting on issues of current importance was more common. In the main voters looked more for a capable individual who once elected could do whatever the State required.

Adrian Goldsworthy

Country, Party, Rome

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I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community.

Ken Mehlman

Issues, Community, Presidential

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Some good souls found The Candidate cynical. I wonder what they'll think when they read this portrait of the real-life Jerry Brown... This is the book that could force the little fox into the open.

Jeremy Larner

Real, Book, Thinking

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Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.

Robert Teeter

Leadership, Style, Important

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During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.

Anatoly Chubais

Government, Training, Special

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I have... submitted the resignation of the government, and I have declared that I will not be a candidate to head the (next) government.

Rafik Hariri

Government, Next, Resignation

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As a head-hunter I get a lot of satisfaction from seeing my candidates do well and therefore my clients happy. I want to work with clients more as a partner than simply a head-hunter.

Bruce Bennett

Hunters, Want, Satisfaction

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Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language.

Pete du Pont

Strong, Jobs, Giving

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All candidate moves should be identified at once and listed in one's head. This job cannot be done piecemeal, by first examining one move and then look at another.

Alexander Kotov

Jobs, Moving, Looks

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Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.

Joe Eszterhas

Stars, Rocks, Rock N Roll

"The Hollywood hitman" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.

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Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual orientation.

Timothy Radcliffe

Prejudice, Would Be, Priesthood

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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

Al Yankovic

Song, Clever, Thinking

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

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You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.

Michael Beschloss

Hard Times, Years, Presidential

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I believe that any candidate who supports the war should not receive our support. It doesn't matter if they're Senator Clinton or whoever

Cindy Sheehan

War, Believe, Uprising

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When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to compromise dark matter in the universe, Feynmann snapped, "Why do you want to know his bias? Form your own bias!"

Richard P. Feynman

Learning, Dark, Want

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All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally, the case that will most concern us here, a crisis may end with the emergence of a new candidate for paradigm and with the ensuing battle over its acceptance.

Thomas Kuhn

Acceptance, Words Of Wisdom, Battle

Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.84, University of Chicago Press

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Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.

Eric Sevareid

Wisdom, President, Essentials

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ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

Ambrose Bierce

Wisdom, Latin, America

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2504, Delphi Classics

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My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master.

Lev Polugaevsky

Psychology, Champion, World

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He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love, Law, Imperfection

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.109, Jazzybee Verlag

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We are asking the wrong question. The issue is not who should be trusted with all the power of the Presidency. Instead, we must ask how much power any candidate can be trusted with.

James Bovard

Issues, Asking, Should

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Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates.

Reed Hundt

Tv News, Television, Voters

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Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else. By voting, the people decide only which of the oligarchs preselected for them as viable candidates will wield the whip used to flog them and will command the legion of willing accomplices and anointed lickspittles who perpetrate the countless violations of the people's natural rights. Meanwhile, the masters soothe the masses by assuring them night and day that they - the plundered and bullied multitudes who compose the electorate - are themselves the government.

Robert Higgs

Night, Government, Rights

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