Quotes About Candidacy

Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.

Up until Trump announced his candidacy, the conventional wisdom was that you had to be a professional politician in order to run. You had to have a background that was politically scrubbed. In other words, smart people who didn't live perfect lives could never run.

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

McGovern is the only major candidate—including Lindsay and Muskie—who invariably gives a straight answer when people raise these questions. He lines out the painful truth, and his reward has been just about the same as that of any other politician who insists on telling the truth: He is mocked, vilified, ignored, and abandoned as a hopeless loser by even his good old buddies like Harold Hughes. On

Since Day 1 of his candidacy, Donald Trump has divided our country and threatened our democracy, attacked the middle class and alienated our allies. Under his administration, real people are being hurt.

Throughout his eight years in office, Barack Obama endured a campaign of illegitimacy waged either by pluralities or majorities of the Republican party. Donald Trump rooted his candidacy in that campaign. It's fairly obvious.

There is a no-man's land in our politics: on the one hand, bounded by what we know to be true, and on the other hand, bounded by what the media says is politically correct. And that's where Donald Trump lives. And it's our failure to admit what we all know to be true in the guise of political correctness that fuels the Trump candidacy.

I predict after this whole thing is over, what we'll remember about the failed candidacy of Donald Trump is, 'You're fired.'

Frankly, Donald Trump won the candidacy for the Republican Party. Let's get on board and help him win.

Donald Trump's whole candidacy from the time he started has been filled with myths by the media that he couldn't - he was not a serious candidate.

I think Donald Trump's had a pattern of leaping on the bandwagon of anything that he feels will further his candidacy, and if that means sowing more fear and paranoia and playing into a kind of xenophobic populist strain, then that's what he will do.

Hillary Clinton wants to run on the historic nature of her candidacy. I will force her to run on accountability for the Clinton way.

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

I was the first Latino member of Congress to support Senator Obama's candidacy. For quite a while, I was the only one.

I think he tries to be nice. But he has absolutely zero self-awareness. None. Zip. So we see the public Donald Trump, the candidate, as being different than the in-person Donald Trump.

My candidacy is a compelling argument for my candidacy. I want to be President.

Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.

I just don't see anonymous sources as fair against a candidate. I think if someone has a real concern, they should come out and say it.

But then, in 2016, Trump announced his own presidential candidacy on a platform of America First, and he stopped repudiating the really staunch Right wacko vote. David Duke quickly endorsed Trump, saying he was "overjoyed to see Donald Trump and most Americans embrace most of the issues that I've championed for years. My slogan remains America first.

Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore's 2000 acceptance speech that relaunched his candidacy and nearly saved him. John Kerry's speech and overall ineffective convention nearly sank him in 2004 (though he was almost saved by the debates).

In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too general to provide a guide to what he might do if elected.

I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.

His response was priceless. After a moment of thought, he said, $70 to 80 million: that would be a yacht. This would be a lot more fun than a yacht! That's when Callista and I learned that a Trump candidacy was likely -- and a Trump presidency was possible.

I am convinced that my dark-horse candidacy helped pave the way for women and members of underserved communities to seek political office.