Candidates Quotes - Page 39

• It is often just as important to be perceived as something as actually to be that something and, as a matter of fact, a candidate need not be anything ideologically at all.

  Jimmy Carter

  Important, Needs, Matter

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• Politics is a damn expensive business. I had one hell of a time trying to raise money as a candidate. I had to put a second mortgage on our house to get that campaign started, and I ended up spending over $300,000 to get elected. I believe that public financing of federal election campaigns is the only thing that will insure good candidates and save the two-party system. It is the most degrading thing in the world to go out with your hat in your hand and beg for money, but that's what you have to do if you haven't got your own resources.

  Joe Biden

  Party, Believe, Hands

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• Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls "make up" and politics calls "character" - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture.

  Christine Pelosi

  Baseball, Character, Maturity

  "Play Ball: 7 Lessons From Baseball for Politics" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2014.

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• Whatever happens in Washington, Wall Street, Hollywood or Silicon Vally in the next ten years, it will be irrelevant if our families don't come together at a much higher level. Without a renaissance of family, no new candidate can rise to save us. No new legislation, policy or program will heal our land.

  Oliver DeMille

  Wall, Years, Land

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• I get out of all of these things that many of these candidates would rather take legislation to build a time machine and go back in time to where, uh, we had, you know, no women voting, slavery was cool. I mean, it's just kind of ridiculous.

  Thomas Roberts

  Mean, Voting, Machines

  "MSNBC's Thomas Roberts: GOP Wants to Go Back to When No Women Voted, 'Slavery Was Cool'" by Tim Graham, www.newsbusters.org. September 23, 2011.

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• Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.

  Jim DeMint

  Integrity, Character, Promise

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• I think President's candidates need shock collars or something.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, President, Needs

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• Barack Obama didn't get elected president, would never have been elected president, had he decided to run as a black candidate. In order to reach the broadest number of people you have to speak to their interests as broadly as you can.

  Gwen Ifill

  Running, Order, Numbers

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm not quite certain how you can force a candidate to stick by the rules.

  Gwen Ifill

  Sticks, Force, Certain

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If you say in advance there is going to be a main candidate and then that doesn't count later, then that's going to be a highly problematic occurrence in a democracy.

  Martin Schulz

  Democracy, Ifs

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• Tolling plan is a wonderful opportunity for political pandering, and some candidates are taking full advantage of it.

  Robert James Thomson

  Opportunity, Political, Wonderful

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• From 1976, Judy to 1996, we had six presidential elections. And it was run under the Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1974. In all six of them, every candidate agreed to limits of what he could collect in contributions and what he could spend in seeking a nomination. And they all abided by it.

  Mark Shields

  Running, Presidential, Reform

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• During the election people from visible minorities stood as candidates on both the left and the right. And only one African woman was elected in a very left-wing constituency in Paris. The French don't seem to be ready to elect people from a visible minority. So maybe this society is not ready to have a woman from a foreign background in this important post. That really surprised us, because we thought we had evolved.

  Patrick Gaubert

  Wings, Paris, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• One GOP Congressman named Carlos Curbelo actually suggested that Donald Trump may be a 'phantom candidate' that has been planted by Democrats. The DNC strongly denied this - while Hillary said, 'Crap, they figured it out! Take off the wig, Bill.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Wigs, May, Bills

  "Jimmy Fallon gets wind of Miami congressman's Donald Trump conspiracy theory" by Patricia Mazzei, miamiherald.typepad.com. July 25, 2015.

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• Republican candidate Ben Carson told reporters he thinks American prisons might be too comfortable. As opposed to Mexican prisons that have personal showers with $5 million escape tunnels.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Thinking, Tunnels, Mexican

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• Republican candidate George Pataki said his dogs would give him the best endorsement for becoming our next president. Until they hear Chris Christie always carries bacon in his pockets. (Joke's on them, though, he's never going to give them any of that pocket bacon. It's what gets him through long meetings!)

  Jimmy Fallon

  Dog, Giving, Long

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• When the media worries about what Hillary’s hair looks like or what my hair looks like, that’s a real problem. We have millions of people who are struggling to keep their heads above water, who want to know what candidates can do to improve their lives, and the media will very often spend more time worrying about hair than the fact that we’re the only major country on earth that doesn’t guarantee health care to all people.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Real, Struggle

  "Bernie Sanders Has Heard About That Hashtag". Interview with Ana Marie Cox, www.nytimes.com. August 27, 2015.

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• One of the candidates at the early GOP debate, George Pataki, said his routine before every debate is to drink a diet lemon Snapple iced tea and pray. Which is also the advice Chris Christie gets from his doctor.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Doctors, Advice, Tea

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• Three years ago we said you'd have to think long and hard about hiring a recruiter with less than a couple of hundred LinkedIn connections. Now the same holds true for candidates in general.

  Kris Dunn

  Couple, Thinking, Years

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• This fight means the world to me. It's what I've been dreaming about since I was 10 years old to win a world title. I'm going in their with nothing less than a victory. I think it's safe to say the fight is not going the distance and it's going to be a fight of the year candidate. He's going to come to fight, I'm coming to fight and I plan on leaving September 8th as the new world champion

  John Molina, Jr.

  Dream, Distance, Mean

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• When I evaluate a candidate, one of the most important criteria is what I call “the first derivative.” Is this person learning? Is this candidate moving forward, or have they stagnated.

  Eric Sink

  Moving, Important, Firsts

  Eric Sink (2006). “Eric Sink on the Business of Software”, p.103, Apress

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• When I ask candidates to tell me about their weaknesses, I am hoping for a wise, honest, and self-confident answer. When I hear a candidate rationally admit a weakness, I am impressed. When I hear a candidate duck the question with language straight out of a book, I start thinking about the next candidate.

  Eric Sink

  Wise, Book, Thinking

  Eric Sink (2006). “Eric Sink on the Business of Software”, p.104, Apress

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• If you see a candidate that Washington embraces, run and hide.

  Ted Cruz

  Running, Embrace, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Ted Cruz from Aug 10, 2015

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• I think like a lot of people in this country I want to see a vision. And, again, that would be true of candidates on all levels. It's time to see a clear, bold vision for progressive economic change.

  Bill de Blasio

  Change, Country, Thinking

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. April 12, 2015.

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• I've never seen a candidate - I've never seen a human being - who, with the most limited briefing, can understand the dimensions, the parameters, the nuances of everything of any kind of a policy or political problem.

  James Carville

  Political, Dimensions, Nuance

  "Clinton". www.pbs.org. February 20, 2012.

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