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Letter "C" » candidate
«During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected»
Author: Everett Dirksen
(Senator)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
campaign, candidate, political campaign, wondering
«If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, / then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.»
Author: John Jay Chapman
| Keywords:
American politics, at present, blindness, candidate, Democratic Party, era, exhibit, lantern, lanterns, look to, New Era, quaint, Republican Party, slide, stand for, The Magic, tragic
«A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a candidate precisely because of the candidate'spermissive stand on abortion and/or euthanasia. When a Catholic does not share a candidate's stand in favor of abortion and/or euthanasia, but votes for that candidate for other reasons, it is considered remote material cooperation, which can be permitted in the presence of proportionate reasons.»
Author: Pope Benedict XVI
(Pope)
| Keywords:
abortion, and or, candidate, Catholic, Communion, cooperation, deliberately, euthanasia, formal, Holy Communion, not guilty, permissive, permitted, proportionate, remote, stand in, unworthy, votes
«Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.»
Author: Robert Byrne
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Democracy,
Funny,
Politics
| Keywords:
allowed to vote, candidate, dislike
«[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.»
Author: Ronald Steel
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
briefings, candidate, competent, deadlines, Reporters, sandwiches, seats, staff
«Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?»
«. . . a businessman's candidate, hovering around the status quo like a sick kitten around a hot brick.»
Author: William Allen White
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
brick, candidate, hover, hovering, hovers, status
«If you are for smaller government, then our candidate is for you. We are for better government and smaller government.»
«From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
candidate, delivery, good looks, nominate, nominated, nominating, predict, theatrical
«He can take a batch of words and scramble them together and leaven them properly with a hunk of oratory and knock the White House door-knob right out of a candidate's hand.»
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