#candid

I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

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

— Mickey Kaus

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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

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

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

I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal. ↗

— John Bolton

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I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community. ↗

— Ken Mehlman

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I don't think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates. ↗

— Ken Mehlman

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Our party for the longest time has relied on the votes of white guys. I think that all of these candidates are going to improve our party, our policies, and our nation. ↗

— Ken Mehlman

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If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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