I consider myself an excellent candidate... because I care.
Vincent Frank

I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama.
Mitt Romney

I don't see a candidate on the scene right now, but it is going to have to be a candidate that people can look at as a leader and not as a man or a woman.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower

I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake.
Jim Nussle

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

I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.
Al Gore

I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it.
Hosni Mubarak

I never would have believed as a candidate for the U.S. Senate that the U.S. government could buy GM without a hearing, with no vote, yes or no. There are billions and billions of dollars at stake here.
Mike Johanns

I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
Victoria Woodhull

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

I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.
Joe Scarborough

I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. We can't beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats.
Howard Dean

I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.
William Howard Taft

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.
Dylan Moran

I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you right now, I am not the merger candidate. I am not interested in institutional marriages with other parties.
Peter MacKay

I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming.
Peter Camejo

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

I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.
John F. Kerry

I'm not sure a candidate ever feels his message is getting out.
Scott McCallum

I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.
David Herbert Donald