Quotes About Candidates

Elections don't come cheap.

When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.

I like Chris Christie. I like Jeb Bush. I like those guys.

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.

The GSEs became powerful advocates for their own bottom lines, providing substantial financial support for political candidates who supported the GSE agenda.

I'm very confident that not only will the other candidates who ran for this office support me but all of their supporters will as well. So yes, I'm very confident that I will get their support.

I am supporting many Republican candidates who embrace the principles and policies set forth in Speaker Ryan's vision and who are committed to moving our country forward on the right path.

It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be.

Having presidential candidates say they are supportive of the concept of doing something like the Green New Deal is amazing, but it's not sufficient.

I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

He has selected from a group of overwhelming candidates. This candidate was nominated to the Supreme Court because of his extremely overwhelming qualifications.

Obviously it's always hard when you tell a patient you can't help them, because maybe it's a physical constraint with the surgery, but in regards to telling a patient that they're not realistic and they're not appropriate psychological candidates, we're pretty used to it.

I think most young professionals would be surprised to learn how accommodating employers can be to inquisitive potential candidates.

There are those who think that the private lives of candidates are none of our business. But when those candidates ask us for our attention as they explain their plans for how they will represent us, no one should be surprised at our interest in how they represent themselves.

Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive.

A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

Everyone wants to vote for the best and most qualified man, but he never runs for office.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.

In the United States 95% of the people who win elections have the most money. That's it. So, money is a big part of elections. But that happens all the time.

Money has much more power down the ballot.

In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans.

We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.