Election Debates Quotes

Mexico isn't a country of routine debates among presidential candidates.

I can't wait for the Republican debates to start and there's literally 65 guys on one stage.

John Kerry says that he wants to debate President Bush once a month until the election. This could be a risky move for Senator Kerry. If Bush doesn't show up for the debates, John Kerry may end up debating an empty chair. And that could be pretty much a toss up as to which one has the better personality.

I'm just an old storyteller, and I always wanted to know, what the hell were these candidates really like?

Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.

If you're kept off the debates, you can't reach more two percent of people even if you campaign every state and fill the big conventions like Madison Square Garden.

Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.

Because I have moderated two general election debates - in 2004 and 2008 - I know better than to carp from the sidelines. I am confident in my accomplishment of having had Queen Latifah portray me on 'Saturday Night Live' both years.

Presidential nomination debates have turned into mud wrestling instead of expositions of the candidates’ views.

I think it's one of the challenges of modern politics, which is, how do you communicate who the candidate is, and what they really believe, in the short time period you have? And for me, the best opportunity was the debates, and I think I was in real trouble before the debates, and I think the debates helped me a lot.

In 1840, William Henry Harrison is the first one to really campaign as a candidate, and the campaigns were totally frivolous. I mean, people were drinking hard cider all day. They were big parades; no one was debating the issues.

Hyperbole has been part of elections since the days of John Adams, and there's nobody better than Joe Biden to give us a little hyperbole, as we all know.

The Commission on Presidential Debates is a corrupt stranglehold on our democracy.