Best Candidates Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 21

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

Stills Important Ideas Government Values Individual Liberty Notion Individuality Libertarian Debate Presidential Candidates Individual Liberty Presidential Candidate

Author:George Will

“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.”

Ifs Knows Home Democracy Media Harm Campaigns Candidates Coming Home Republic Association Cornerstones Inexperience Roost

Author:Sarah Palin

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

Vote Claims Candidates

Author:Glenn Greenwald

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

Should Different Would Be Party Heard Republican Green Democrat Candidates Green Party

Author:Peter Camejo

“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.”

Way Jobs Winning Libertarian Commit Cooks Presidential Candidates New Ways Taxation Theft Presidential Candidate

Author:L. Neil Smith

“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.”

Ifs Running Christian Millions Republican Devil Vote Election Democratic Clinton Conservative Presidential Ran Candidates Evangelical Lucifer Presidential Election Hillary Rodham Clinton

Author:Jerry Falwell

“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.”

Men World Persons Whole Christian Wish Prayer Animal Half Students Angel Believer Candidates Thinker Hereafter Admission Devotee Procession Whole Person

Author:Ludwig Feuerbach

“The Socialist Party will no longer be running a candidate for president. The Democratic Party is leading this country to Socialism much faster than we could ever hope to.”

Country Running President Party Democratic Socialism Faster Candidates Socialist Democratic Party Socialist Party

Author:Norman Thomas

“A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.”

Pages Election Candidates

Author:Nicolas Sarkozy

“I want to be the candidate placed on the ballot by the people, not the party.”

People Want Party Candidates Ballots

Author:Andrew Cuomo

“I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians.”

Political Politician Offers Lists Candidates Collectives Nouns Scum

Author:John P. Wheeler III

“The highest and best use of our time that really matters over the next decade will be working to elect clean-energy candidates, especially in swing states and swing districts around the country.”

Country Matter States Use Next Energy Highest Clean Climate Decades Our Time Candidates Swings Clean Energy

Author:Eban Goodstein

“I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.”

Want Stills Guy Candidates Flags Truck Confederate Pickups Confederate Flag Pickup Trucks

Author:Howard Dean

“Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.”

Men Wells Done School Law College Candidates Seats Acceptable Law School Columbia Vacant

Author:Constance Baker Motley

“... Grateful Dead - that's it !! ... nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn't like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, 'Yeah, that's great.' It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It's just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don't like it.”

Said Enough Names Parent Music Lucky Band Yeah Grateful Curious Candidates Filters Quirky

Author:Jerry Garcia

“I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake.”

Thinking Should Believe Would Be I Believe Mistake Office Picks Gender Candidates

Author:Jim Nussle

“I have made it clear that future candidates need to be completely understanding that they will be expected to vote pro-choice on any bills.”

Needs Made Political Choices Understanding Clear Politician Expectations Vote Election Bills Expected Made It Candidates Voting

Author:Justin Trudeau

“Even more dramatic, Alex Todorov at Princeton has shown us that judgments of political candidates' faces in just one second predict 70 percent of U.S. Senate and gubernatorial race outcomes, and even, let's go digital, emoticons used well in online negotiations can lead to you claim more value from that negotiation. If you use them poorly, bad idea. Right? So when we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others, how they judge us and what the outcomes are. We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals, and that's ourselves.”

“As a president I will be like the candidate that I am, a respectful candidate, a rallying candidate, a normal candidate for a normal presidency, at the service of the Republic.”

President Normal Candidates Republic Presidency Respectful Rallying

Author:Francois Hollande

“Though I am flattered that Governor Palin has chosen to cite me as a source of wisdom, what I said had nothing to do with politics. This is yet another example of McCain and Palin distorting the truth, and all the more reason to remember that this campaign is not about gender, it is about which candidate has an agenda that will improve the lives of all Americans, including women. The truth is, if you care about the status of women in our society and in our troubled economy, the best choice by far is Obama-Biden.”

“I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.”

People Thinking Rights Movement Color Traditional Civil Rights Legacy Candidates Civil Rights Movement

Author:Carol Moseley Braun

“The reason that minorities and women dont have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.”

Reason Difficult Office Shots Raises Campaigns Traditional Finance Candidates Minorities Senate Campaign Finance

Author:Carol Moseley Braun

“I am not a party candidate, and if elected cannot be President of a party, but the President of the whole people.”

People Ifs Whole President Party Candidates

Author:Zachary Taylor

“Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.”

Needs Should Doe Social Term Race Rights Security Republican Civil Rights Candidates Mainstream Social Security Civil Rights Act Civil Rights Act Of 1964

Author:Tim Kaine

“Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.”

Thinking Next Found Areas Obvious Candidates Introspection Time To Think

Author:Megyn Kelly

“Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots”

Ifs Firsts Wells Shows President Kings Becoming Committed Candidates March Telephones Ballots Larry

Author:James Stockdale

“The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure [science] fiction. Theories and laws do not bring matter/energy into existence. The view that they nevertheless somehow have the capacity seems a rather desperate refuge...from the alternative possibility...Trying to avoid the clear evidence for the existence of a divine intelligence behind nature, atheist scientists are forced to ascribe creative powers to less and less credible candidates like mass/energy and the laws of nature.”

“Russia and Ukraine are candidates for the entry to the WTO and their dispute would be easy to understand and tackle if they are both members of this organization.”

Ifs Would Be Easy Members Organization Russia Candidates Disputes Ukraine Entry

Author:Pascal Lamy

“It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.”

Solutions Tests Candidates Systematic

Author:Niklaus Wirth

“Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance.”

Years Has Beens Names Team Intention Careful Candidates Transition Vary

Author:Richard V. Allen

“There is only one candidate in this election who can universally mobilize conservatives, and as evident from the variety of primary victors, none of them is a Republican. It's Hillary Clinton.”

Republican Election Clinton Variety Primaries Candidates Evident

Author:Matt Labash

“Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.”

Sports Heard Fame Decided Candidates Halls Hall Of Fame Hoping For Something

Author:Gabriela Sabatini

“Companies who have been able to groom CEOs internally have done significantly better. We came to the conclusion that the quality of several of the reviewed internal candidates was so high that it did not merit to go outside.”

Has Beens Done Able Quality Company Conclusion Merit Candidates Internals Ceo

Author:Jorma Ollila

“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.”

Two Office Democrat Candidates Unsuccessful

Author:Jack L. Chalker

“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.”

Want Different President Powerful Groups Honest Candidates Privileged Sensitivity

Author:Josefina Vazquez Mota

“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.”

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

Community Issues Republican Importance Committed African American Presidential Candidates Addresses Presidential Candidate

Author:Ken Mehlman

“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.”

Thinking Littles Book Real Soul Found Force Wonder Real Life Candidates Brown Cynical Portraits Foxes Jerry Good Souls

Author:Jeremy Larner

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

Important Leadership Style Research Important Things Candidates Voters

Author:Robert Teeter

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

Firsts Government Special Training Election Locals Alternatives Candidates Soviet Local Government

Author:Anatoly Chubais

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

Government Next Candidates Resignation

Author:Rafik Hariri

“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.”

Want Wells Seeing Satisfaction Partners Candidates Clients Hunters

Author:Bruce Bennett

“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.”

Giving Jobs Language Strong Republican Democratic Congress Edges Opponents Candidates Distinction Capture Very Strong Profile Newts High Profile

Author:Pete du Pont

“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.”

Should Firsts Looks Done Jobs Moving Candidates Examining One Piece

Author:Alexander Kotov

“First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.”

Firsts Winning Streets Wall Vote Candidates Catering Occupy Wall Street

Author:Jim DeMint

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

Stars Rocks Fronts Candidates Rock N Roll

Author:Joe Eszterhas

“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.”

Would Be Prejudice Candidates Rooted Misogyny Orientation Homophobia Priesthood Rejecting

Author:Timothy Radcliffe

“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.”

Thinking I Can Ideas Enough Song Clever Candidates Parody

Author:Al Yankovic

Candidates Quotes

Related topics

Candidates Quotes