#candid

One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#business #candidates #i #just #one thing

I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#between #candidate #clips #death #gap

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out. ↗

— David Sedaris

#case #change #ever #figure #got

No candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one which makes our candidates look like hucksters. ↗

— Greta Van Susteren

#candidate #candidates #could #current #dares

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#between #candidate #distinction #key #only

I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#anti-war #candidate #come #every #first

I want to be president because I have the sensitivity, as a woman, to listen. I'm a different candidate... different because I don't belong to powerful, privileged groups, because I'm honest. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#belong #candidate #different #groups #honest

Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#candidate #front #getting #meanwhile #movie

It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love. ↗

— Voltaire

#love #pangloss #voltaire #love

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 E. Stevenson

#box #breakfast #breakfast cereal #candidates #cereal