My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate.
Obviously a candidate has to be held responsible for the words that come out of his mouth, regardless of where they came from.
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.
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.
Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.
I'm a daughter, not a clone. So, of course, daughters often disagree with things their fathers say. But I share my viewpoints with him privately, not publicly. I'm not the candidate.
I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.
I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.
The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.
In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the outset of the French Revolution, was 'the son of a half-breed Indian squaw' who would put opponents under the guillotine.
There are a number of candidate vaccines that are in development for HIV/AIDS.
I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake.
There's an enormous difference between voting for a candidate because you hate another ethnic group and voting for a candidate because he's a member of your ethnic group.
George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.
There is a line between scurrilous nonsense and serious discussion that laps over, especially in this day and age when you've got all this electronic media and these blogs and this kind of fanatical impulse to bring down the opposing candidate.
Donald Trump has had political success positioning himself as a 'law-and-order' candidate.
We need candidate schools to recruit more young African-Americans to run for office and more diverse law enforcement communities.
The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.
It's time for Republicans to rally behind this campaign in order to put forth the best candidate to stop Hillary Clinton in November. I am confident Ted Cruz is that person, and I'm thrilled to endorse him for president.
No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.
Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.
I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.
You can't be the candidate and the campaign manager.
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.
The National Popular Vote is about getting states to convert from the winner-take-all rule. The states that pass the legislation will assign all their electoral votes to the candidate that got the most votes in the country, not just in the state.
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.
Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?
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.
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
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.
There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.
When you look at the calculation, it's amazing that every time you try to prove or disprove time travel, you've pushed Einstein's theory to the very limits where quantum effects must dominate. That's telling us that you really need a theory of everything to resolve this question. And the only candidate is string theory.
I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.
Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words.
In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins.
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.