Candidates Quotes

• When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Judgement
  • Candidates
  • Censoring

• During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.

  

  Everett Dirksen
  • Political
  • Wonder
  • Busy

• The difficulty with the lease remains a troublesome issue, ... I've been in touch with all eight of the ownership candidates, and we're trying to move the process forward as rapidly as possible so the eventual owner can plan for the coming season.

  

  Bob DuPuy
  • Season
  • Move
  • Issue

• The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.

  

  Thomas Bulfinch
  • Long
  • Candidates
  • Knighthood

• We think what Americans at the end of the day want to know is, if this person [a candidate] going to go out and be a fighter for me? Does this person understand my concerns, my issues, and will this person fight for me?

  

  Karen Finney
  • Thinking
  • Fighting
  • Issues

• I think that what is really important is that, at the grassroots level, Indian-Americans really engage in the political process. That means voting and volunteering and assisting candidates who support the agenda that is friendly to their values.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Support
  • Americans
  • Volunteering

• 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
  • Understand
  • Democratic
  • Communities

• I think all of us could insist on preserving the truth and preserving the peace. We could insist that political candidates tell the truth about controversial issues. And secondly, we should be sure to encourage our political leaders, after they're elected, to preserve the peace.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Truth
  • Peace
  • Leaders

• It has been reported that Rudolph Giuliani has trademarked the name 'Rudolph Giuliani' so other candidates can't use his name in negative campaign ads. ... For similar reasons, Hillary Clinton has trademarked the words 'ballbuster,' 'castrater,' and 'nutcruncher.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Words
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Rudolf Giuliani

• We just want to make sure the best candidates get the attention they deserve.

  

  Terry Sanford
  • Attention
  • Deserve
  • Candidates

• One of the traditional rites of passage for political candidates is the revelation of financial status - a catechism-like recital of money mistakes made and debts owed.

  

  Stacey Abrams
  • Financial
  • Mistakes
  • Passage

• While Domald Trump chose a running mate, Mike Pence, who wrote a letter to an Indianapolis newspaper about how women shouldn't work because it's bad for the family. So we're really facing such a stark contrast between the candidates. Not to mention the vulgarity that Trump has been spouting about women for his entire life and continues to throughout his campaign. It's just a different world that we'd be living in if he won.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Family
  • Letters
  • Newspapers

• Running for office in our country takes a lot of money, and candidates have to go out and raise it. New York is probably the leading site for contributions for fundraising for candidates on both sides of the aisle, and it's also our economic center. And there are a lot of people here who should ask some tough questions before handing over campaign contributions to people who were really playing chicken with our whole economy.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Money
  • Running
  • Office

• Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates.

  

  Reed Hundt
  • Television
  • Candidates
  • Voters

• Republicans are good at standing by their candidate.

  

  George Clooney
  • Republican
  • Standing
  • Candidates

• When I ask candidates to tell me about their weaknesses, I am hoping for a wise, honest, and self-confident answer. When I hear a candidate rationally admit a weakness, I am impressed. When I hear a candidate duck the question with language straight out of a book, I start thinking about the next candidate.

  

  Eric Sink
  • Language
  • Weaknesses
  • Self-confident

• Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates.

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • Problem
  • Partners
  • Candidates

• Does it make any sense at all that the chair of a national party would want fewer voters to see our candidates?

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Voters
  • Chair
  • National party

• When you read Trump's tweets or see candidates interact online like Jeb did with Hillary, you're like, 'Yes, it's just like my friends.' That's the magic.

  

  Harper Reed
  • Online
  • Candidates
  • Trump's tweets

• In newspapers, as various studies have found, stories began to focus less on what candidates said and more on the tactical motives for their statements.

  

  Bill Kovach
  • Newspapers
  • Statements
  • Tactical Motives

• I saw great hope in the Sanders campaign - a flawed candidate, not perfect, but pretty damn close. Millions of young people were inspired by him.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Inspired

• We need a wide variety of ways for voters to get a good look at our candidates.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Candidates
  • Voters
  • Variety of ways

• We've continued to meet and talk, probably on a daily basis, with the commissioner and with members of the committee, ... Several of the candidates have come in over the last couple of weeks and have gone down to mlb.com and have spent some time down there continuing their due diligence. Again, I see no reason why we can't make an announcement by Labour Day.

  

  Bob DuPuy
  • Meet
  • Commissioner
  • Labour Day

• I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out. This simple change shocked me, because I found myself interviewing different-looking candidates - even though I was 100% convinced that I was not being biased in my resume selection process.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Change
  • Selection
  • Recruiter

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