Presidential Candidate Quotes:

Presidential candidates don't chew gum.

- Theodore C. Sorensen

topic: Presidential, Gum, Presidential Candidate

I may be the only person, the only presidential candidate who never carried the state in which he was born.

- George W. Bush

source: "To a Presidential Notion: Sorry, Mr. Bush, but No" by David Stout, www.nytimes.com. August 22, 2006.

topic: Presidential, Presidential Candidate

No Republican presidential candidate is a viable option for pro-choice voters of any political philosophy - Democrat, Republican or otherwise.

- Christine Pelosi

source: "Women’s Rights at Stake: Why Iowa Feminists Should Caucus for President Obama" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 31, 2011.

topic: Philosophy, Choices, Presidential, Presidential Candidate, Political Philosophy

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

- Ralph Nader

topic: Las Vegas, Gambling, Presidential, Presidential Candidate, Gambling And Love

Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

- Harry Reid

source: "Harry Reid’s Non-Gaffe" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 10, 2010.

topic: Country, Light, Racism, Presidential Candidate

Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep

- Benito Mussolini

source: "ITALY: Duce (1922-43)". content.time.com. August 2, 1943.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Sheep, Retweet, Kkk

It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Funny, Sheep, Years, Medieval War, Retweet

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole ***** nation of ***** driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Baby, People, Evil, Presidential Candidate

Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment.

- Ron Fournier

topic: Presidential, Honest, Surprise, Presidential Candidate, Candidates

There in front of me was the Senator on the floor being held by the busboy. There was nobody else around, and I made my first frame, and I forgot to focus the camera. The second frame was a little more in focus... then just for a second, while everything was open, the busboy looked up, and he had this look in his eye. I made that picture, and then suddenly the whole situation closed in again. And it became bedlam.(On the 1968 shooting of U.S. presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy.)

- Bill Eppridge

topic: Eye, Focus, Presidential, Bobby Kennedy, Busboys

It's starting to look like Donald Trump may be a serious presidential candidate. If you're in my line of work, Trump running for president for real is the greatest thing that has ever happened.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Running, Real, Presidential, Presidential Candidate

It is true that all of the current presidential candidates once denied that they had any intention of running. But the fact that I am also a liar, doesn't make me a candidate.

- Pat Paulsen

topic: Running, Liars, Presidential, Presidential Candidate

There's only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He's half African-American. Whether that will make any difference, I don't know. I haven't heard him have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation in the ghettos. Payday loans, predatory lending, asbestos, lead. What's keeping him from doing that? Is it because he wants to talk white? He doesn't want to appear like Jesse Jackson? We'll see all that play out in the next few months and if he gets elected afterwards.

- Ralph Nader

source: "Obama using 'white guilt,' Nader says" by Alexander Mooney, www.cnn.com. June 26, 2008.

topic: Strong, Ghetto, White, Payday, Predatory

There are some who would have a presidential candidate describe and explain his church's distinctive doctrines. To do so would enable the very religious test the founders prohibited in the Constitution. No candidate should become the spokesman for his faith. For if he becomes President he will need the prayers of the people of all faiths.

- Mitt Romney

source: Faith in America, delivered 6 December 2007, College Station, TX

topic: Religious, Prayer, People, Presidential Candidate

It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate.

- Richard Dawkins

source: Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.67, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Suicide, Presidential, Political, Presidential Candidate

That is the problem with this rich and anguished generation. Somewhere a long time ago they fell in love with the idea that politicians- even the slickest and brightest presidential candidates- were real heroes and truly exciting people. That is wrong on its face. They are mainly dull people with corrupt instincts and criminal children.

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

topic: Children, Real, Hero, Presidential Candidate, Real Heroes

The Republican presidential candidate [Donald Trump] provoked condemnation from leaders in both parties and around the world. He did that by proposing to bar all Muslims from entering the United States.

- Steve Inskeep

topic: Party, Presidential, Leader, Presidential Candidate

When I cover a major presidential, when I vote for a major presidential, or when I cover a major presidential candidate out on the campaign trail, I make it a policy not to vote on the presidential ballot in that election.

- Jim Acosta

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Presidential, Election, Vote, Presidential Candidate

Barack Obama may be black, but John McCain is the first Albino presidential candidate: he's completely see-through!

- George Lopez

topic: Funny, Humor, Presidential, Presidential Candidate

I mean, obviously, one of the strongest arguments against evolution and selection of the fittest and progress, which is part of evolution, is the current field of the presidential candidates. We started off with Washington and Adams and Jefferson and then we had Lincoln, and now we moved ahead and look where we are now.

- William Kristol

topic: Mean, Presidential, Progress, Presidential Candidate

Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romneys is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired.

- Jodi Kantor

topic: Play, Presidential, Special, Chosen By God, Presidential Candidate

You can't be what you can't see, so it's harder for women to say, "I'm going to be a [presidential] candidate," so we need to go to women who would be good candidates and say, "You would be a good candidate and I'll help you." It's not a passive question, it's not when will it happen, but an active question, when will we make it happen?

- Gloria Steinem

source: Source: bluestockingsmag.com

topic: Presidential, Would Be, Needs, Presidential Candidate

In an interview, former vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan said he does not have a racist bone in his body. However, he admitted he has three sexist bones and his spine is homophobic.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Presidential, Racist, Body, Presidential Candidate

[When asked, as a prospective Presidential candidate, whether she had ever committed adultery:] No. But then most congresswomen don't have 25-year-old lifeguards throwing themselves at their feet around this place.

- Patricia Schroeder

topic: Sex, Years, Feet, Lifeguard, Presidential Candidate

Tonight the Republican presidential candidates had a big debate, 10 candidates. The last time that many rich white guys got together, I think Exxon merged with Mobil.

- Jay Leno

topic: Thinking, White, Guy, Presidential Candidate

The New York Times is reporting that back in the '60s, presidential candidate Howard Dean used a letter from a doctor about a back condition to keep himself out of the draft in Vietnam and then spent 10 months skiing. Well it sounds like he's done the impossible. He actually made Bill Clinton and George Bush look like war heroes.

- Jay Leno

topic: New York, War, Hero, War Hero, Presidential Candidate

Presidential candidate Howard Dean is now being attacked for dodging the draft. I never knew this about the guy - but now I know this guy is presidential material.

- David Letterman

topic: Guy, Presidential, Dean, Presidential Candidate

Presidential candidate Donald Trump had a meeting with Ted Cruz. He said he does not know why he agreed to fly to New York to meet Ted Cruz and then he promised to bring that kind of leadership to the Oval Office.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: New York, Office, Presidential, Presidential Candidate

In a new poll of Democratic voters, presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee came in with zero percent support. Or in other words: We're all tied with presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee.

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: Zero, Support, Presidential, Presidential Candidate

They say John Kerry is the first Democratic presidential candidate in history to raise $50 million in a three-month period. Actually, that's nothing. He once raised $500 million with two words: 'I do.'

- Jay Leno

topic: Two, Presidential, Three, John Kerry, Presidential Candidate

One in a while, you discover a presidential candidate who has the potential to change the political conversation, to elevate key issues in voters' minds, and disrupt and transform a tired Republican brand. Once in a lifetime, maybe, you will have an opportunity to support a transformative candidate who can do all of these things, and win.

- Matt Kibbe

source: "FreedomWorks’ Matt Kibbe to help run super PAC for Rand Paul", www.foxnews.com. June 18, 2015.

topic: Change, Tired, Winning, Presidential Candidate

Donald Trump is not a normal presidential candidate.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Presidential, Normal, Trump, Presidential Candidate

There's nothing in the 14th Amendment about anchor babies.

- Rush Limbaugh

topic: Baby, Anchors, Amendments, 14th Amendment, Presidential Candidate

People are really excited by Obama abroad because he seems to be the first American presidential candidate who has ambition to go out of the country. In a sense, with the power of globalization, you are kind of electing the leader of the Western world to an extent.

- Irvine Welsh

source: Source: gapersblock.com

topic: Country, Ambition, People, American President, Presidential Candidate

It's not beneficial when you have a presidential candidate like Donald Trump, telling his supporters "punch that guy in the face." I think everyone candidate ought to aspire toward civility, towards decency, towards bringing us together. I don't think we should be using angry and hateful rhetoric.

- Ted Cruz

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Thinking, Guy, Presidential, Presidential Candidate

Trump is not just unlike a Republican, he's unlike a presidential candidate. The whole elaborate presidential process is designed to screen out people like Donald Trump. And that process broke down in ways quite unlike anything in the recent experience of the United States.

- David Frum

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: People, Presidential, Republican, Presidential Candidate

Star Wars may be kind of a cartoon, but the original trilogy depicts a political paralysis which breeds an interest in a strong leader who will make a significant break with the past. And Hillary Clinton is a person - whether you like it or not - of extraordinary experience. I don't know if we ever had a presidential candidate with that level of political experience. There's no learning curve for her. And that, in some periods, would be a huge plus. In the end, I think it will be a significant plus for her now.

- Cass Sunstein

source: Source: www.marieclaire.com

topic: Strong, War, Past, Presidential Candidate

This is so sexist. I mean, are we really going to put this as a standard of something we are going to judge our presidential candidates by?

- Stephanie Miller

topic: Mean, Judging, Presidential, Presidential Candidate

The Donald Trump phone call with the president of Taiwan seems very much in line with his rhetoric during the campaign that he intended to be tough on China. And don't forget, we have seen a lot of presidential candidates, memorably, Bill Clinton, who used to criticize George Herbert Walker Bush for coddling dictators and then take the much softer line with China once he's in office.

- Karen Tumulty

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Office, Presidential, Tough, Presidential Candidate

You want to talk about doing damage to our elections and damaging our stature, to have it just thought and stated repeatedly that the strongman of Russia can pick an American presidential candidate and get him or her elected? Do you think if Hillary had won and the Republicans had tried this line that Putin chose her, do you think that would have gotten past a day in the Drive-By Media? They wouldn't have even taken the story. They'd laughed at it, sloughed it off, and you'd-a never heard about it.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Taken, Past, Thinking, Presidential Candidate

I hate the word surrogate, because what does that mean? Like when people talk about I`m my father's confident, at one point, they were actually saying major newspapers were publicly were writing that I was Vice Presidential candidate. I`m saying no. I`m a daughter.

- Ivanka Trump

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Daughter, Hate, Writing, Presidential Candidate

The people I really feel sorry for are all the writers out there who wrote these outrageous comedic romps about a grossly unqualified person who goes on to become a Vice Presidential candidate in a hotly contested presidential race. With hilarious results. They must be so bummed.

- Samantha Bee

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Sorry, People, Presidential, Presidential Candidate

There are people who believe that there should be a standard psychiatric examination for every presidential candidate and for every president. But these are difficult issues because they can't ever be entirely psychiatric. They're inevitably political as well. I personally believe that ultimately ridding the country of a dangerous president or one who's unfit is ultimately a political matter, but that psychological professionals can contribute in valuable ways to that decision.

- Robert Jay Lifton

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Presidential Candidate, Psychiatric

Think of the French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, Ciudadanos in Spain, Nowoczesna in Poland. These are early efforts to reimagine a liberalism which is neither right-wing nor left-wing in the traditional sense.

- Anne Applebaum

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Emmanuel, Presidential Candidate

Trump did more interviews, he explained his agenda more than any political presidential candidate ever has, in my memory, and he has tried to stick to it as people perceive it.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Memories, People, Presidential, Presidential Candidate

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

source: Source: www.politico.com

topic: Presidential, 1960s, Instance, Presidential Candidate

I always run ahead of the ticket [compared to Democratic presidential candidates]. But this time there were a lot of people that just voted party line, a lot more than usual.

- Collin Peterson

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Running, Party, People, Presidential Candidate

In my mind, there's no question that Donald Trump has energized the Latino community more than any other presidential candidate. Unfortunately for him, he's done that in a negative way.

- Julian Castro

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Community, Presidential, Mind, Presidential Candidate

It's the first time in U.S. history a presidential candidate has not revealed his tax returns, or a president.I think that the poll ratings are in the gutter right now, right? Donald Trump's, even before he's been inugurated.

- Katrina vanden Heuvel

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Thinking, Presidential, Firsts, Presidential Candidate

I worry about women globally. When we talk about having a presidential candidate who would tear up the Paris accords, who doesn't believe in global warming, we know that poor women and children are going to be the most vulnerable when we start seeing rapid effects of global warming.

- Patricia Arquette

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Children, Believe, Paris, Presidential Candidate

Former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina also criticized Donald Trump during the campaign, but now she was arguing that the new president deserves a chance to prove himself, and that, perhaps, you know, having a march just the day after his inauguration is kind of disrespectful.

- Michel Martin

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Presidential, Campaigns, Chance, Presidential Candidate