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

It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.
Frank Luntz

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
Eugene McCarthy

It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.
Martin Sheen

It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not.
Erskine Bowles

Lebanon is restless, Syria got its walking papers, Egypt is scheduling elections with more than one candidate, and even Saudi Arabia, whose rulers are perhaps more terrified of women than rulers anywhere else in the world, allowed limited municipal elections.
Suzanne Fields

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

My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life.
Nick Cassavetes

Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance.
Richard V. Allen

No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.
Dick Morris

No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.
Roger Mudd

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.
Ralph Nader

Now the fact that terrorists throughout the world see this as an opportunity to defeat the United States, we have to be - and every Democratic candidate, even those who opposed us going in, now say we just simply can't cut and run.
Al D'Amato

One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.
Pierre Salinger

People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.
Howard Dean

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
Dick Gregory

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.
Lamar Alexander

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

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.
Horatio Alger

The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.
Ken Follett