1.
I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.
John F. Kerry
2.
Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.
Neil Simon
3.
I'm the candidate who forgot to take off her hat before she threw it in the ring.
Gracie Allen
4.
Any attempt to wriggle, especially from leadership candidates who campaigned to leave the EU by focusing on immigration, will be unacceptable to the public.
Theresa May
5.
Every candidate is going to come to you and say they are the most conservative person that ever lived.
Ted Cruz
6.
The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.
Thomas Bulfinch
7.
If you say in advance there is going to be a main candidate and then that doesn't count later, then that's going to be a highly problematic occurrence in a democracy.
Martin Schulz
8.
One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected.
Bernard Meltzer
9.
The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.
Kin Hubbard
10.
I'm not just a candidate, I'm the President
Barack Obama
11.
You never agree with any one candidate 100 percent. I don't agree with myself 100 percent. You don't even agree with me 100 percent.
Rudy Giuliani
12.
You can never find a candidate that will agree with everything you believe. Then you would just have a clone and that doesn't exist.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
13.
I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.
Al Gore
14.
Just because somebody else likes a candidate doesn't necessarily mean everybody else will like him.
Roger Ailes
15.
I consider myself an excellent candidate... because I care.
Frank Vincent
16.
I am not now, nor will I ever be, a candidate for offensive coordinator of Iowa.
Marco Rubio
17.
The conservative candidate who ignores moderates is as misguided as the moderate candidate who ignores conservatives.
Mike Lee
18.
George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.
Ed Gillespie
19.
I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.
Glenn Greenwald
20.
My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate.
Angie Stone
21.
A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.
Nicolas Sarkozy
22.
You can't get much more liberal than John Kerry is. I mean, he's my candidate, but, I mean, come on.
Don Imus
24.
I could never endorse any candidate because not one of them is saying that which would save America from the Wrath of Allah (God).
Louis Farrakhan
25.
None of the candidates are ever perfect, ok? Then you have to get them in there and you have to hold them accountable. You have to make noises.
Marian Wright Edelman
26.
I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central.
Lucy Powell
30.
I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.
Neil Young
31.
I don't get asked a lot of questions about who is the best political candidate or what my position is on what the Senate is about to do.
Max Lucado
32.
If you see a candidate that Washington embraces, run and hide.
Ted Cruz
33.
The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
Cormac McCarthy
34.
The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.
Peter Jennings
35.
I'm the perfect candidate to be affected by SARS. I'm highly susceptible to infections.
Ron Santo
36.
The Manchurian Candidate was the most important movie I was in, let's face it.
Angela Lansbury
37.
Republicans are good at standing by their candidate.
George Clooney