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Quotes About Candidates

Some will say, 'I wish I had a different choice. I wish there was a different candidate!' Listen: you have two choices. You have Donald and you have Hillary. And you have no other choice.
~ Sean Duffy
I knew that Trump was ghastly. I knew I'd vote for Hillary if I had a vote.
~ Mary Beard
If I were American, I'd vote everything but Hillary Clinton.
~ Marine Le Pen
I think that for the United States, Hillary Clinton, as awful as I find her, is a survivable event. I'm not so sure about Donald Trump.
~ Bret Stephens
When American workers are losing their jobs to people in other countries, Washington cannot afford to ignore this disturbing trend any longer. While Democratic presidential candidates want to just blame U.S. corporations, the reality is that their strategy won't help protect American workers or save their jobs.
~ Kevin Brady
Good candidates can arrive at the binary search tree as the right path in a few minutes, and then take 10-15 minutes working through the rest of the problem and the other roadblocks I toss out. But occasionally I get a candidate who 'intuitively understands' trees and can visualize the problem I'm presenting.
~ Robert Love
We need candidates who are deeply rooted in their communities, working-class people who understand the struggles their neighbors face. That is the future of the Democratic Party.
~ Richard Ojeda
The number-one defender of the Second Amendment rights is the National Rifle Association. The NRA works tirelessly to elect pro-Second Amendment candidates, and it fights fearlessly to win tough public policy battles and preserve those rights.
~ Thom Tillis
The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
~ Xavier Niel
In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.
~ Sarah Palin
Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
~ Carly Fiorina
I always run ahead of the ticket [compared to Democratic presidential candidates]. But this time there were a lot of people that just voted party line, a lot more than usual.
~ Collin Peterson
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.
~ Eban Goodstein
Our party for the longest time has relied on the votes of white guys. I think that all of these candidates are going to improve our party, our policies, and our nation.
~ Ken Mehlman
You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.
~ Michael Beschloss
I'm not going to talk about supporting somebody for a long time. I don't know who the two party candidates are going to be.
~ Michael Bloomberg
I recognize primaries are difficult things. We had a field of outstanding candidates. And primaries get a little bit rough. And it takes some time for people to get beyond those things.
~ Mike Pence
Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure, or criminally motivated, or mad.
~ Auberon Waugh
De todos los tópicos acerca de la política, existe uno que se defiende con más fuerza que el resto: el dinero compra elecciones.
~ Stephen Dubner
He showed people the pairs of photographs from each contest with no information about political party, and he asked them to pick which person seemed more competent. He found that the candidate that people judged more competent was the one who actually won the race about two-thirds of the time.
~ Jonathan Haidt
Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.
~ Eric Alterman
At the end of the party, each person will have selected certain players he would like to see more of, while others he will discard, regardless of how skillfully or pleasantly they each engaged in the pastime. The ones he selects are those who seem the most likely candidates for more complex relationships—that is, games. This sorting system, however well rationalized, is actually largely unconscious and intuitive.
~ Eric Berne
A new phrase occurs to him, and the neatness of it opens his face a little. "It's crystal-clear, at this election," he says. "It is a choice between me as prime minster and Bill Shorten as prime minister. You vote for me, you'll get me. You vote for Bill Shorten and you'll get Bill Shorten.
~ Erik Jensen
We worried that one or both candidates would try to use the crisis for political advantage, complicating any potential deal in the Congress.
~ Ben S. Bernanke