#candid

I'm fighting for the heart and soul of the Republican Party and I think if I win this campaign that people will take notice and the next time they select a candidate, they will look at the principles. ↗

— Doug Hoffman

#candidate #fighting #heart #i #i think

In creating superdelegates, the Democratic Party recognized the expertise that its top holders of public office have gained by running for office themselves. They are experts at winning. They know the issues. They are in a unique position to evaluate presidential candidates. ↗

— Jim Hunt

#creating #democratic #democratic party #evaluate #expertise

Today, I'm a candidate for the office of president of the United States of America. My kids can't believe I just said that. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#believe #candidate #i #just #kids

If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election. ↗

— Hamilton Jordan

#ballot #candidate #could #election #found

Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist. ↗

— Tim Kaine

#candidates #civil #civil rights #civil rights act #does

I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory. ↗

— Mickey Kaus

#anger #been #candidate #failed #i

I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#american people #audiences #between #candidates #fire

African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss. ↗

— Alveda King

#brown #candidate #disagreed #electing #him

Newt Gingrich had to work hard - getting Republican candidates to sign the Contract with America - to nationalize the election that swept Republicans to victory in 1994. A Democratic anti-Tea Party campaign would do that for the Republicans - nationalize the election, gratis - in 2010. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#campaign #candidates #contract #democratic #election

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#apparently #candidates #cost #democracy #elections