Candidate Platform Quotes

The nominee of our party, which at this - is presumed to be Donald Trump - I think that's the right team to support. That's what I've always said I would.

In 2000, Trump could have won the Reform Party nomination. I chaired his presidential exploratory committee.

When the candidate must seek support from all levels of his community, his political creed will be tolerance, not hatred; equal protection for every minority, not discrimination.

Our job is not to dictate the policies of our candidates or even influence them but simply to articulate them in the most clear and meaningful way to the relevant audience.

We have to have campaign contributions to apprise the public about our qualifications.

Here's what I've found in Louisiana: The voters want to know what you believe, what you stand for, and what you plan to do, not what shade your skin is.

I think this transition to a candidacy will allow me to be more direct about my advocacy of the leadership skills necessary for the next president to fix a few things, and as a candidate, contrary to someone who has been listening and learning along the way, I'll offer up alternatives to the path we're on as well, so I'll be more specific on policy.

I am running for president as a Democrat. And if elected, not only do I hope to bring forth a major change in national priorities, but let me be frank, I do want to see major changes in the Democratic Party.

Today’s cabinet members are yesterday’s board members … I am running for President to eliminate this kind of crony capitalism.

I would say a successful campaign reflects the desire of the people who are there to support a candidate.

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.

I'm going to support the candidate that the voters chose. The voters get to choose who's best to represent them.

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

But to make a long story short, I decided that I was going to run, and I announced that I was going to run for president in Florida, I would be the favorite son from Florida, and that would stop Johnson and Kennedy from dividing up the state.

Carly Fiorina has campaigned hard in New Hampshire to earn support from voters.

Mark Udall wants to run a social issues campaign. He definitely wants to run as the social issues candidate.

If a candidate puts together a small business platform, I'll go out on the road for him. You know, I'll support him.

I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal.

A platform is something a candidate stands for and the voters fall for.