Candidate Quality Quotes

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.

One thing is for sure: most of the people admitting candidates to universities for technical subjects are pretty dissatisfied with the level of math education.

Elections, like economic competition, produce winners, but these are not necessarily the best candidates, morally speaking.

Did it ever strike you, Jennifer [Palmieri], that maybe [Hillary Clinton] is a lousy candidate?

There aren’t many honest men or women in Washington anymore. Politicians get where they are by the sheer force of their egos, not their convictions. And you know what? It’s our fault as voters. We don’t demand better candidates, so we end up getting what we deserve—on both sides of the aisle.

Everyone wants to vote for the best and most qualified man, but he never runs for office.

[Donald Trump] was a better candidate; that's how he won.

If the Republicans embrace these great people that are showing up, the Republicans are going to have a massive victory. It's not going to be a Mitt Romney slaughter, because he was such a bad candidate.

I mean, obviously, one of the strongest arguments against evolution and selection of the fittest and progress, which is part of evolution, is the current field of the presidential candidates. We started off with Washington and Adams and Jefferson and then we had Lincoln, and now we moved ahead and look where we are now.

I think people more and more are tired of the party system. People want good candidates and good people to win.

It seems the more shallow and mean the candidates are the more they rise in the polls.

You can have all the money in the world, but if you're not a good candidate, it doesn't matter.