#candid

Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#changes #choice #election #elections #expression

Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt. ↗

— Roscoe Conkling

#bureaus #candidate #committees #effort #favor

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

#book #candidate #favored #him #i

The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork. ↗

— Walter Lang

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The Manchurian Candidate was the most important movie I was in, let's face it. ↗

— Angela Lansbury

#face #i #important #most #movie

The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#competitive #congressional #depending #increase #means

For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts; and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#after #any #believe #campaigning #candidates

Presidential candidates don't chew gum. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#chew #gum #presidential

The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#breakfast #breakfast cereal #candidates #cereal #democratic