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

The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself.
James L. Buckley

The day I'm inaugurated, this country looks at itself differently and the world looks at America differently. If you believe that we've got to heal America and we've got to repair our standing in the world, then I think my supporters believe that I am a messenger who can deliver that message around the world in a way that no other candidate can do.
Barack Obama

The Manchurian Candidate was the most important movie I was in, let's face it.
Angela Lansbury

The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff.
Adlai Stevenson

The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.
Mary Cheney

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

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

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
David Brinkley

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.
James Baker

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.
David Frum

Today, I'm a candidate for the office of president of the United States of America. My kids can't believe I just said that.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Vote Smart has sent out thirty thousand questionnaires to every candidate running for office.
Betty Hill

We can take this country back. All we need is to nominate the right candidate. It's no more complicated than that.
Rush Limbaugh

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
Kin Hubbard

Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots.
James Stockdale