Candidates Quotes - Page 27

• The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.

  Mary Cheney

  Presidential, Vices, Vice President

  Mary Cheney (2006). “Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life”, Pocket Books

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• It doesn't matter if the Republican or the Democratic candidate wins the governorship [of Hawaii]. Either one is already in the kingdom.

  Ed Silvoso

  Winning, Hawaii, Kingdoms

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• I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.

  David Herbert Donald

  Presidential, Today, Not Sure

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• Good luck to progressive candidates in U.S. Senate elections against the usual rich, white, racist, women-hating pricks they run against.

  Irvine Welsh

  Running, Hate, Good Luck

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• PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single sentence lost him the job.

  Max Levchin

  Jobs, Fun, Engineering

  Interview with Peter Thiel, gist.github.com. 2012.

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• How does it feel to be the 's third choice? Humiliating? You could have thrown a dart. That's how close they were. We had so many excellent candidates.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Choices, Doe

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• I want to say that I cannot be intimidated or stopped. In order to put an end to various attempts to get rid of me as a possible candidate, I want to say that I'm running for president.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Running, Order, President

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• If you care about the 2012 election and value the voices of regular Americans who lost hope in their hope and change candidate, this is one documentary you won't want to miss.

  Jedediah Bila

  Voice, Missing, Care

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• The candidates that can’t face Fox, can’t face al Qaeda.

  Roger Ailes

  Als, Faces, Foxes

  "Murdoch, Ailes, Weymouth Pump Bloomberg At Breindel Awards". observer.com. June 6, 2007.

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• The Russian Federation has a growing Muslim minority, which is causing cultural and religious clashes. This is similar to mass immigration of Mexicans to America, and certain presidential candidates are tailoring their campaigns to get Mexican votes.

  David Duke

  Religious, Ku Klux Klan, America

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• Neither this nation nor this party can afford a candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up re-electing a president of the incompetent left.

  Arlen Specter

  Party, President, Demand

  "Stand Up to the `Intolerant Right'" by Arlen Specter, www.sfgate.com. May 15, 1995.

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• Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the motives of their accusers because the fact of their guilt was undeniable. In the 1960s, over a thousand psychiatrists who'd never even met Barry Goldwater signed a petition saying the GOP candidate was too mentally unstable to be president.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Guilt, Spy, President

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• [Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of Gore.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Politics, Clinton, Charm

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• Democratic candidate John Kerry on Tuesday chose fellow Senator John Edwards to be his running mate. Asked about Edwards' lack of foreign policy experience, Kerry revealed his new campaign slogan, 'I Promise Not to Die.'

  Dennis Miller

  Running, Tuesday, Promise

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• In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans.

  John F. Kerry

  Morning, Winning, Wake Up

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• You must understand printing lies about Republican candidates is OK. It's called vetting. Printing the truth about liberals - that's called "swift-boating."

  Howie Carr

  Lying, Politics, Republican

  "Media loves to hate Sarah Palin" by Howie Carr in Boston Herald, September 7, 2008.

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• I feel that this is my first year, that next year is an election year, that the third year is the mid point, and that the fourth year is the last chance I'll have to make a record since the last two years; I'll be a candidate again. Everything I do in those last two years will be posturing for the election. But right now I don't have to do that.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Years, Two

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• A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.

  Jim Lehrer

  Ideas, Two, Purpose

  "The GQ+A with Jim Lehrer". Interview with Luke Zaleski, www.gq.com. October 15, 2012.

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• When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when these things are heard without regard, as above or below us, then is the Commonwealth sick or dead.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Heart, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.127, Harvard University Press

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• Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Doe, Would Be, Use

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• A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

  Marya Mannes

  Office, Syntax, Language

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Wife, Chance, Telling The Truth

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army

  Joseph Campbell

  God, Army, Hell

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.279, Anchor

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• Everyone knows the presidential candidates and has an opinion about them. But as you get to smaller races, that evaporates and you can win through sheer elbow grease.

  Joe Greene

  Winning, Race, Presidential

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• If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

  John Jay Chapman

  Party, Curiosity, Magic

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