This is about these particular candidates in this particular year. That's what motivates me.

- David Dinkins

When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.

- J. B. Pritzker

Quite frankly, Oklahomans are pretty smart. They know how to choose candidates.

- James Lankford

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.

- Jeb Bush

I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

- Jesse Jackson

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

- Jay Leno

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.

- Howard Zinn

We have always had many more franchisee candidates than available locations.

- Fred DeLuca

People read inevitability as entitlement, and the American people want their candidates to sweat for the job. They want them to actually make a case for the job.

- Deval Patrick

People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.

- Dennis Kucinich

I like candidates who tell me something that is going to make a difference to me.

- Ann Richards

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

- David Sedaris

As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.

- Dan Rather

I think the American people aren't looking for loyalty amongst candidates to other candidates. What the American people are looking for is loyalty to the American people.

- Cory Gardner

These candidates are all beholden to these super PACs.

- Corey Lewandowski

The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.

- Barbara Olson

Like manchurian candidates, we have been made into manchurian consumers, who subconsciously buy when we are triggered by our brand masters.

- Bryant H. McGill

I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.

- Bob Woodward

What people are looking for are candidates and representatives that are going to work hard, tell it like it is. I'm unafraid to do things when it doesn't poll well.

- Adam Hasner

Ultimately, presidential campaigns are - or at least should be - about the candidates, not their spouses or surrogates.

- Andrew Rosenthal