Quotes About Candidates

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.

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.

Nothing is the matter with Mr. Gore except that he can't be elected.

NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.

I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign.

In this country people don't vote for, they vote against.

are two types of the mentally deficient in this world. The first type mistake their lack of understanding for bold perception. This type of deficiency is often found in urologists and presidential candidates and is as dangerous as the plague.

Not to mention that a crown is too high a reward ever to be given to merit alone, and will always induce the candidates to employ force, or money, or intrigue, to procure the votes of the electors: so that such an election will give no better chance for superior merit in the prince, than if the state had trusted to birth alone for determining the sovereign.

the nation faced a constitutional crisis in which both major presidential candidates—Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden—claimed victory in the 1876 election, raising concerns about who would govern the Republic.

When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.

If God told Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann, and Herman Cain to run for president, then God obviously wants Barack Obama to win.

I think God has blessed us. He has blessed the Republican Party with some very good candidates. The Democrats can't even find one.

Each achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about themselves and being good to liberal candidates.

The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

If you vote for candidates who think it's the role of the state to provide health care, don't complain when your hospitals are as badly run as everything else run by the state.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the most disliked and untrusted candidates for president in American history.

Don't forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you're voting for Dole.

My worry is that Donald Trump may inspire copycats, also in Europe. That's why I hope Hillary Clinton wins.

I hope that in the days to come, I'll be able to convince my colleagues that I should be one of the candidates that Conservative party members can choose from.

It is clearly important for all leadership candidates to be open and transparent about their tax affairs. I was very happy to publish mine today, and hope others will follow suit.

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.