271 Quotes About Candidates

There is no shortage of candidates for elimination. There is only the shortage of political will to make the difficult decisions.

What this practice does is really put candidates on guard wherever they are, and make delivering speeches even to groups of supporters even harder.

So the African-Americans' candidates are progressing to the runoff.

A number of candidates who have been talked about are extreme.

In every election cycle that I can recall, there comes a moment - or a few - where charges of elitism and claims of commonness are wielded by presidential candidates like a sword and shield: 'Vote for me 'cause I'm one of you. It's the other guy who's out of touch.'

Really, it's the foundation of democracy. Any citizen can go to the precinct convention, take an issue or a concern, and ultimately take it to the state party and in other years all the way to the national party and the presidential candidates themselves.

I am not now, nor will I ever be, a candidate for offensive coordinator of Iowa.

More limited- or low-income candidates need to be treated with respect. ... If we equate the dollars spent with the legitimacy of a candidate, we're in a dangerous situation.

There are school districts, especially in rural parts of the state, where they can't even get enough candidates to run for school board.