Andrew Scheer Quotes

You've got to be known for what you're running on, what principles.

I'm running for president because there's no way we can elect Hillary Clinton to continue the policies.

The Republicans have a “me too” candidate running on a “yes but” platform, advised by a “has been” staff.

I am honored to be here as co-chair of President Obama's re-election campaign.

In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama's 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.

Gilles Duceppe avoids making campaign promises altogether so he can emphasize that his Bloc Quebecois has only one objective: to prevent Harper from forming a majority government.

If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.

I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.

When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.

Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on.

I have big ideas. If you don't like them, don't vote for me.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.

Politicians do not like to alienate voters no matter how lofty the goals.

[A prospective political candidate] should have a pleasing name, easy to pronounce and spell, and one suggesting statesmanship and Americanism, unless it is a name popular to nationalities and races among the electorate in his particular area.

[Campaign] Promises forecast governance.

Rare is the election campaign that truly hinges on a single issue.

In 1999, I established my political party.

We have big ideas. I just think that's part of how you campaign. You talk to the American people about big things.

President Obama makes fantastic stump speeches, but putting together an actual agenda is more complicated.

If you want a politician, then you probably shouldn't vote for me.

So far, I have looked and looked for a detailed plan from Hillary Clinton's campaign that can tell me where she really stands, but there is none. It is difficult to trust that a candidate will be the right one for our community when you don't exactly know what their plan is.

Everybody runs for political office knocking somebody, and very few run on 'This is what I stand for. This is what I believe will solve these problems.'

Having the ability to inspire a crowd and connect with voters doesn't mean a person has the skills to appease those same voters once in office.

When people speak of BJP being an 'election machine,' it is actually development and progress that is BJP's electoral machine.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.