Campaign Platforms Quotes

Everyone runs on an education platform. We have Education Presidents and Education Governors and Education Dog Catchers, but the dollars never match the rhetoric.

Competition for votes sends parties in a two-party system toward the center.

There is constantly a war going on between the two parties for the populist vote. The populist vote is always the swing vote.

To say that we should engage in some hypothetical about, 'Will I vote for Trump,' that's defeatist. I'm not going to be a defeatist.

We need more participation, so when I see someone like Trump, I go, 'You know something? Good for him'. I may not support him, but let him run.

This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!

Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.

I think Trump's gonna be a great president. And Hillary's a great woman too.

I haven't agreed with every one of my Republican colleagues or Democratic colleagues on every issue. But I'm supporting Donald Trump because we need change in this country.

I like Chris Christie. I like Jeb Bush. I like those guys.

Every four years since 1988, I have voted for the Republican presidential candidate.

There is no Republican out there who wants a Hillary Clinton presidency.

In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.

We should hold the presidential elections at least a few weeks before the congressional election so that the voters will know which party will control the White House.

If you stand at an election and put a manifesto in front of people saying you're going to improve health care, you have to stick by that.

President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.

The people who show up at the early primaries are very passionate and not much interested in compromise.

We have a cleaner system of government in this state where people run based on their ideas, not based on their ability to raise money.

I voted for President Bush, I voted for President Clinton, and, although I do want my vote back, I voted for President Obama.

I have probably never voted for a straight ticket in my life, and I am a Democratic U.S. senator.

The election campaign is no time to get involved in very, very serious issues.

I will never be able to endorse a nominee for president whose name is not known.

Experience shows a particular candidate's election platform has on several occasions changed most radically after he has become President.

Should Sen. McCain capture the nomination as many assume, I believe this general election will offer the worst choices for President in my lifetime. I certainly can't vote for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama based on their virulently anti-family policy positions.

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.