#candid

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

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

I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#candidate #caution #flawed #going #i

I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide. ↗

— Voltaire

#voltaire #misery

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#candidates #how #impressions #just #lasting

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#allowed #being #candidate #democracy #dislike