Candidate Quotes
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I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.
Ezra Cornell
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Under the system that we now have to nominate presidential candidates, for instance, I would prefer that we have a system that is closer to, say, the one we had in the 1960s.
Michael Beschloss
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Network news accustoms audiences to assertion not argument. Over time, it reinforces the notion that politics is about visceral identification and apposition, not complex problems and their solutions. ... sound bites aren't very helpful. They can tell a voter what a candidate believes, but not why. And many issues are too complex to be freeze dried into a slogan and a smile. ... What's lost in a world in which everything's an ad? Perhaps the country that created the assembly line has simply found a more efficient way to do politics.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
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I still think there's some tension . But it's pretty clear that, when the president made his statements as a candidate, he's following through with those as a president.
Amy Walter
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He says he's got too many important things to do than to assist an ambitious candidate to continue to milk the press for free publicity.
Alice Stewart
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This is pop music. You've got a candidate for president of the United States using it, that's hitting the biggest audience you're ever going to hit in your entire friggin' life. And you don't want that? Bullshit. That's what you want. It's not even for success or fortune, it's because that's the power of the song.
Sammy Hagar
Van Halen
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Party leaders aren't responsible for every candidate's gaffe.
William M. Daley
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As a candidate for Congress, I proposed a federal infrastructure bank to help local governments fund badly needed projects, including ones in my district. We need to repair and expand our crumbling transportation systems by creating many good-paying construction jobs.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
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Rarely does a candidate think ahead and take the time to understand what the hiring company's priorities are, and then carefully presents himself as a 'solution' to the company's existing gaps/needs.
Azran Osman Rani
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If you want to beat Donald Trump - then you need to be the candidate that is not the establishment in your thinking, in the way you're presenting yourself.
Dalia Mogahed
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The problem with the Democratic Party is, we're like, 'If we just get another presidential candidate in there, everything will be OK.' We should be focusing on school boards, city council races, state legislatures.
Eric Garcetti
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I believe, and that is that I am the strongest candidate to take it to the Republicans and win in November 2016.
Hillary Clinton
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Let me just say that I'm the only candidate in this race now that has any firsthand experience fighting terrorism. And both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, I think, have proven in different ways that they're unprepared for that challenge.
Evan McMullin
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Trump is not going to win the presidency because he himself is a weak, weak candidate.
Evan McMullin
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Thus far, no candidate has appropriately addressed these and other much-needed operational issues of the House.
Charles Bass
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I'm a huge fan of a Hillary Clinton candidacy. I think Hillary will be an incredibly strong candidate, and hopefully it will inspire my party to put up someone great.
Nicolle Wallace
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We never had a conversation about which candidate Rick Greenspan liked. I gave him my opinion. I said, 'Steve Alford would be a great candidate.' I gave him my opinions. But it wasn't until recently that we had conversations about who was out there, who was available, who was interested, what our options were, that sort of thing. It hasn't been a very long time.
Jeff Cohen
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The only candidate pocketing big money from people who want to destroy coal is Mitch McConnell.
Alison Lundergan Grimes
