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I know New Yorkers are gonna vote for a candidate - me - who has the longest record of delivering for them. They want a mayor who can deliver for them. And I'm the only one - I don't care who gets in - who has that record.

~Christine Quinn

Topics: Candidate Care Deliver Delivering Gets Gonna Know Longest Mayor Me New New Yorkers Only Record Them Vote Want Who

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Every election, a presidential candidate inevitably proposes a new cabinet agency. The idea is that this is the only way to solve a particular problem. Just create more government.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Agency Cabinet Candidate Create Election Every Government Idea Inevitably Just More New Only Particular Presidential Problem Proposes Solve Way

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Try, if you will, to imagine Dwight Eisenhower or JFK or Lyndon Johnson or, for that matter, Ronald Reagan chin-wagging with Jack Paar or Johnny Carson. Richard Nixon did, famously, go on 'Laugh In' in 1968, but as a candidate; and to his credit, he rued the day and hated every second of it.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Candidate Credit Day Did Eisenhower Every Every Second Go Hated He His Imagine Jack Johnny Johnny Carson Johnson Laugh Lyndon Lyndon Johnson Matter Nixon Reagan Richard Richard Nixon Ronald Reagan Second Try Will You Jfk

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Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Alcohol Came Candidate Day Did Die Every Every Day Everyone Go Got Honestly Interruption Make Many Millions Millions Of People Occasional Particular People Sixties Smoke Sometime Tumor Use Very Which Years You Your Yourself

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I don't view our approach as negative. I view our approach that when you have a candidate in a Republican primary make statements that would make his position to the left of Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama on immigration... we need to bring that out to the people.

~Chuck Fleischmann

Topics: Approach Barack Barack Obama Bring Candidate His Immigration Left Make Nancy Nancy Pelosi Need Negative Obama Our Out People Position Primary Republican Statements View Would You

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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.

~Chuck Norris

Topics: Best Candidate Case Conservative Flattery Form Giant Imitation Like Particularly Presidential Pundits Reagan Ronald Reagan Say They Say You

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Many of you may remember that I supported Mike Huckabee for president in 2008. He was doing great, beating out Mitt Romney, when some shenanigans were pulled by bringing in Fred Thompson as a candidate to compete against Mike for the evangelical and conservative votes in South Carolina.

~Chuck Norris

Topics: Against Beating Bringing Candidate Carolina Compete Conservative Doing Evangelical Fred Great He Many May Mike Mitt Mitt Romney Out President Pulled Remember Romney Some South South Carolina Supported Thompson Votes Were You

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The most successful politicians are the ones who embrace their best traits while turning their liabilities into loveable attributes. And yet, many a candidate tries to run as something they aren't simply because the strategy dictates it.

~Chuck Todd

Topics: Attributes Because Best Candidate Dictates Embrace Many Most Politicians Run Simply Something Strategy Successful Traits Tries Turning While Who

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I believe that any candidate who supports the war should not receive our support. It doesn't matter if they're Senator Clinton or whoever.

~Cindy Sheehan

Topics: Any Believe Candidate Clinton Matter Our Receive Senator Should Support Supports War Who Whoever I Believe I Believe That

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Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.

~Claire Mccaskill

Topics: Always Been Candidate Career Controversy Entire Issue Obviously Political Pro-Choice Surrounding

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