#candidate

As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new. ↗

— Dan Rather

#access #bargaining #been #campaigns #candidates

The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture? ↗

— Jef I. Richards

#allows #candidates #honest #law #lie

When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#censoring #judgement #make #network #only

A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard. ↗

— Peter Camejo

#democrat #different #green #heard #party

There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines. ↗

— Ronald Steel

#affected #all things #between #briefings #candidate

This is a race in a heavily Democratic state that, for a Republican candidate, will require full-time devotion in order to win... I could not be a senator and a father during this campaign. I could only be a candidate. ↗

— Peter G. Fitzgerald

#candidate #could #democratic #democratic state #devotion

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. ↗

— Jay Leno

#given #god #had #us #vote

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#because #candidates #conservative #culturally #liberal

It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked. ↗

— Greta Van Susteren

#asked #candidate #controlled #exactly #good

The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#been #candidate #day #front #historically