Election Platform Quotes

The elections have a different platform, the town hall is the platform for it. But the other question behind all this is should I run for president?

[Campaign] Promises forecast governance.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

Obviously in a campaign, people say lots of things that they find, when they get in the office, life's a little different.

You're not just voting for an individual, in my judgment, you're voting for an agenda. You're voting for a platform. You're voting for a political philosophy.

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

I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy is strong and in place to get them successfully re-elected.

I'm not going to change who I am. I'm not going to change why I'm running... I'm running for president [in 2016], and I'm running because we can't afford another four years like the last eight years.

We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly willingness to compromise but we're not going back on the fundamental things we're running on in this campaign.

The candidate who promises the most has the best chance of winning.

The [American] President says one thing during the election; something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves

There are a lot of different demands on the campaign trail, but what matters most is that you connect with voters and take the time to really hear their concerns.

The stuff that I propose are things that I'm ready to govern with. They're not tools to get elected. They are programs and plans to do when you get elected.

It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.

What's important is that, come the general election, people think the right things of you. They think that you've got the right values and the right policies. And that you're the right kind of person to lead the country.

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

When [Jimmy] Carter ran for President, he made many promises to people in big cities.... I never believed a word he said, and therefore did not believe he was lying.

For the Presidency, you run on a record and not on your legs.

We have seven months before the election. Our top priority as fiscal conservatives is to make sure President Obama retires.

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

As a presidential candidate, Mr. Trump is going to get tough questions from the press and has to answer them.

A Presidential candidate must not only show that he is big enough for the race, but big enough for the times.

I think it becomes incumbent upon a candidate to essentially disavow some of the things that are in that party platform. Otherwise, I think the assumption is that you are a true believer.

We have to be very realistic as a party as to what we're promising Canadians going into the 2019 election.