Candidates Quotes - Page 29

• You can't get much more liberal than John Kerry is. I mean, he's my candidate, but, I mean, come on.

  Don Imus

  Mean, John Kerry

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• If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election.

  Hamilton Jordan

  Men, Years, September

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• Sure, it's fun to chat with people with interesting backgrounds who seem to have a passion for your company. But a job interview is not a friendly chat. You need to determine whether candidates, can they really do the job. So ask them to prove it.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Jobs, Fun, Passion

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• I have never seen . . . so slippery, so disgusting a candidate.

  William J. Clinton

  Disgusting, Slippery

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• I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.

  John F. Kerry

  Nra, Naacp

  "Dems battle over Confederate flag". www.cnn.com. November 2, 2003.

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• I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you right now, I am not the merger candidate. I am not interested in institutional marriages with other parties.

  Peter MacKay

  Party, Principles, Want

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• Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.

  Reince Priebus

  Doors, Political, Promise

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• Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

  Alan Rudolph

  Humanity, Able, Republican

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To the new 'Apprentice' candidates I would say to follow your gut instincts, be yourself and get ready to work hard for the next few months. Oh, and try to have some fun!

  Bill Rancic

  Being Yourself, Fun, Hard Work

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• If you think about it, candidate Obama, Sen. Obama, was running on sort of long-run economic issues, like restoring prosperity to the middle class, dealing with the perennial problem of health care in the United States. He talked a lot about the budget deficit, about the need to transition to clean energy.

  Christina Romer

  Running, Thinking, Class

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• People have their constitutional right to contribute to a campaign and if they have discretionary money that they want to contribute to a candidate, whether a Republican or a Democrat, they should be able to do so.

  Brian Sandoval

  People, Campaigns, Want

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• It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.

  Greta Van Susteren

  Lying, Way, Interviews

  "Candidate Fundraising: Is This All Messed Up, or Am I Wrong?" by Greta Van Susteren, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2012.

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• No candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one which makes our candidates look like hucksters.

  Greta Van Susteren

  Campaigns, Looks, Process

  "Candidate Fundraising: Is This All Messed Up, or Am I Wrong?" by Greta Van Susteren, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2012.

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• The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.

  Larry Sabato

  Government, Offering, Iraq

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• We need a candidate who's going to be a fighter for freedom. Who is going to get up and make that the central theme in this race because it is the central theme in this race. I don't care what the unemployment rate's going to be. Doesn't matter to me. My campaign doesn't hinge on unemployment rates and growth rates.

  Rick Santorum

  Race, Growth, Needs

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• Now Mitt is not a perfect candidate. He has a number of problems. It's hard for him, for blue collar families like mine to identify with him. It's hard for economic conservatives to identify with him. He needs to do more to reach out to Latinos.

  George Pataki

  Blue, Numbers, Perfect

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• We can't nominate such a weak candidate. I'd love to be able to get one-on-one with Gov. Romney and expose the record that would be the weakest record we could possibly put up against Barack Obama.

  Rick Santorum

  Would Be, Records, Able

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• I don't know who all of his advisers are, but I've seen some of the names and some of them are quite far to the right. And sometimes they might be in a position to make judgments or recommendations to the candidate that should get a second thought.

  Colin Powell

  Names, Might, Sometimes

  "Colin Powell Trashes Mitt Romney’s Team Of Foreign Policy Advisers" by Jennifer Bendery, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I just think that the independent voters are going to take their time and look at both candidates.

  Jim Talent

  Independent, Thinking, Looks

  "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien". www.cnn.com. June 14, 2012.

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• You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.

  Antonio Villaraigosa

  Party, People, Faces

  "DNC Chair: Democrats Will 'Set The Record Straight'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• You might have a warrior spirit in there somewhere, and it's just waiting for the opportunity to come out. If you do, you might be a candidate for the pathway to enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Warrior

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• I'm really the candidate who has really lived his whole life in suburbia.

  Bob McDonnell

  Whole Life, Suburbia, Whole

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• Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.

  Claire McCaskill

  Careers, Issues, Choices

  "McCaskill: Senate Could Live With Stupak Amendment" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate. In this age the myth is "the will of the people" ... but the problem changes only superficially.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Kings, People, Age

  "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1966.

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• You see, even though back then Barack was a Senator and a presidential candidate... to me, he was still the guy who'd picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger side door... he was the guy whose proudest possession was a coffee table he'd found in a dumpster, and whose only pair of decent shoes was half a size too small.

  Michelle Obama

  Coffee, Shoes, Doors

  Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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