Candidates

Famous quotes containing the word candidates:

“The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?”
—H. Ross Perot (b. 1930)

“The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal—that you can gather votes like box tops—is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.”
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)