Top 1200 Presidential Candidate Quotes & Sayings

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

I can't comment on what every single presidential candidate is saying or doing.

One in a while, you discover a presidential candidate who has the potential to change the political conversation, to elevate key issues in voters' minds, and disrupt and transform a tired Republican brand. Once in a lifetime, maybe, you will have an opportunity to support a transformative candidate who can do all of these things, and win.

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

In presidential campaigns, experience as a candidate is an invaluable asset.

In a new poll of Democratic voters, presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee came in with zero percent support. Or in other words: We're all tied with presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee.

Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment.

When 3 million more people vote for a presidential candidate, but that candidate still loses, the system sucks. Period. It's broken. I think it's broken if the candidate loses by one vote and still wins. Losing by 3 million votes, but still winning the election, is preposterous.

Barack Obama may be black, but John McCain is the first Albino presidential candidate: he's completely see-through!

Aside from Donald Trump, polls find [Hillary] Clinton to be the least-liked presidential candidate in recent history.

I did not know in the beginning how important the trip would be but we knew that Iran was in the crosshairs of the Neo-Conservative movement. And when you listen to Mr. Ted Cruz, the Republican presidential hopeful, and when you listen to Mr. Marco Rubio, a Republican presidential candidate, when you listen to their language, it says to me that they are agents of the Neo-Conservative strategy.

Presidential candidate Howard Dean is now being attacked for dodging the draft. I never knew this about the guy - but now I know this guy is presidential material.

With its emphasis on star power, the Obama campaign from Day One emphasized the candidate's perfectly cut presidential presence.

They say imitation is the best form of flattery. That is particularly the case if you're a U.S. presidential candidate and pundits are likening you to a conservative giant like Ronald Reagan.

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

Trump is not just unlike a Republican, he's unlike a presidential candidate. The whole elaborate presidential process is designed to screen out people like Donald Trump. And that process broke down in ways quite unlike anything in the recent experience of the United States.

You can be guaranteed a story on the presidential campaign is gonna lampoon the Republican candidate in every one of those news agencies.

Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before.

I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign.

A presidential candidate needs a slogan.

As a presidential candidate, Mr. Trump is going to get tough questions from the press and has to answer them.

I like Marco Rubio. But I don't know about as a vice-presidential candidate. He's a nice guy, and that role requires kicking the crap out of your opponents.

The people I really feel sorry for are all the writers out there who wrote these outrageous comedic romps about a grossly unqualified person who goes on to become a Vice Presidential candidate in a hotly contested presidential race. With hilarious results. They must be so bummed.

Donald Trump is a candidate who divided his own party more deeply than any presidential candidate has before.

Richard Nixon was a Republican presidential candidate who encouraged crooks to commit espionage against the Democratic National Committee in order to gain an edge in a presidential election.

A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.

As a presidential candidate, Trump seems heaven-sent just to make fools out of Republicans.

It's not beneficial when you have a presidential candidate like Donald Trump, telling his supporters "punch that guy in the face." I think everyone candidate ought to aspire toward civility, towards decency, towards bringing us together. I don't think we should be using angry and hateful rhetoric.

There are some who would have a presidential candidate describe and explain his church's distinctive doctrines. To do so would enable the very religious test the founders prohibited in the Constitution. No candidate should become the spokesman for his faith. For if he becomes President he will need the prayers of the people of all faiths.

It is true that all of the current presidential candidates once denied that they had any intention of running. But the fact that I am also a liar, doesn't make me a candidate.

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

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry came down pretty hard on fellow candidate Howard Dean this weekend. After Dean misspoke several times, Kerry said you can't misspeak 15 times in a week and be president. And Bush said, 'You can't'?

As a president I will be like the candidate that I am, a respectful candidate, a rallying candidate, a normal candidate for a normal presidency, at the service of the Republic.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has taken American politics by storm.

When candidate Donald Trump ran for the highest office in the land, he promised to fight for forgotten Americans. In the presidential election of 2016, the forgotten Americans of the Upper Midwest and the coal country of Kentucky and West Virginia, many of them life-long Democrats, delivered a decisive win for this first-time Republican candidate.

I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate made it through the public airways.

It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate.

It is reckless for a presidential candidate to publicly raise doubts about honoring treaty commitments with our allies.

The top two goals of every presidential nominating convention are to unify the party and to define the candidate for the grueling weeks ahead.

Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.

I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot.'

Donald Trump may be the loudest voice in the Republican presidential field, but on his heels is the candidate quietly surging to the front of the pack: Ben Carson.

I may be the only person, the only presidential candidate who never carried the state in which he was born.

You have Hillary Clinton who has called black teens or black kids super predators, you have Donald Trump who's openly racist. We have a presidential candidate who has deleted emails and done things illegally and is a presidential candidate. That doesn't make sense to me because if that was any other person you'd be in prison.

When I cover a major presidential, when I vote for a major presidential, or when I cover a major presidential candidate out on the campaign trail, I make it a policy not to vote on the presidential ballot in that election.

Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president?

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

Mr. Trump is an entertainer, bringing a rawness and wildness to the presidential race that no other candidate can come close to matching.

Wouldn't it be something if Liberty's votes were enough to change which presidential candidate won Virginia and maybe even the presidency itself?

Donald Trump is not a normal presidential candidate.

It's sobering to realize that there's a huge chunk of the U.S. voting population that doesn't think of sexual assault as something horrendous enough to disqualify a presidential candidate.

There is only one Republican presidential candidate that has a proven, courageous, and conservative record on national security: Marco Rubio.

In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.

Every four years since 1988, I have voted for the Republican presidential candidate.

I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.

We have a presidential candidate who's deleted emails and done things illegally and is a presidential candidate. That doesn't make sense to me, because if that was any other person, you'd be in prison. So what is this country really standing for?

Midterms behave very differently than presidential elections. Midterms, for a federal candidate, often times are a referendum on the president, where in presidential years, voters make two separate choices: one for president and one for a federal officeholder.

You can't be what you can't see, so it's harder for women to say, "I'm going to be a [presidential] candidate," so we need to go to women who would be good candidates and say, "You would be a good candidate and I'll help you." It's not a passive question, it's not when will it happen, but an active question, when will we make it happen?

In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins.

Bill Clinton's legacy on job creation should be assailed by none and admired by every presidential candidate who hopes to do the same.