Quotes About Candidates

I have been really furious about the constant charges being lobbed against me about identity politics that, by the way, are only lobbed against women and candidates of color.

Leaders talk about gender equality but it is not seen during selection of candidates. They will talk about winnability and a woman candidate seldom fulfils the criteria unless she is from a political family.

I think people more and more are tired of the party system. People want good candidates and good people to win.

The gods in Lankhmar (that is, the gods and candidates for divinity who dwell or camp, it may be said, in the Imperishable City, not the gods of Lankhmar—a very different and most secret and dire matter)…the gods in Lankhmar sometimes seem as if they must be as numberless as the grains of sand in the Great Eastern Desert.

The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.

In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins.

A lot of our Democratic consultants have fallen into the self-defeating prescription that the candidate that runs the most negative ads wins. I have a new theory: Positive is the new negative.

The 2008 Democratic presidential candidates would be wise to note that unwarranted negativism is dangerous and badly underestimates the strengths of the American people to adapt to and prosper with change.

There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny.

We often feel a twinge of guilt over our own fascination with presidential candidates' wives - as if we are secretly reading the 'Star' for our campaign information instead of the policy journals.

The reality is I have a job as a national party chair that, one, requires a thick skin. It requires me to be able to absorb the body blows so our candidates can stay above the fray.

I think experience is a terribly overrated idea when it comes to thinking about who should become president.

That's what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they'd have to get new candidates.

Vote Smart has sent out thirty thousand questionnaires to every candidate running for office.

One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.

Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.

The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.

All around me, candidates were making wild promises and outlandish statements, while I was out there trying to offer up sound strategies and proven approaches—in other words, trying to be responsible. But you know what? That was seen as boring. Nobody seemed to care—at least, not in any kind of measurable way in this early going.

Candidates, of course, often claim that they want to run 'a purely positive campaign,' but this rarely materializes.

I think the Democratic Party has picked a lot of the wrong candidates, the kind that Middle America, or people who are more down the middle and more rational, can't side with. I think that's been the problem.

Effective campaigns must communicate the candidates' values and use issues symbolically—as indicative of their moral values and their trustworthiness. Recall

This is nothing negative about the other candidates. It's just a recognition of the fact that Governor Romney has won more delegates. He's the only person that really has a chance to take the winning number of delegates into the convention.

Newt changed the frame of reference of all of our candidates. That's why we won so big in 1994.