Unconventional Candidates Quotes

I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the presidency of the United States. People who say, 'It can't happen,' are many of the same people who said we'd never elect an African American.

The 2016 Presidential Campaign had the most bizarre and unusual occurrences in all my years of covering politics, I have never seen so much that was unique and unheard of. My favorite one was when the Republican Speaker of the House referred to the Republican Senator Ted Cruz, the "Devil Incarnate". And then the Society of Satan Worshippers put out a Press Release denying it.

I think a lot of people - to be candid about it - are like, if Donald Trump can be president, so can I. And I think there's a whole crop, a new generation of people who aren't on the tip of anyone's tongue, just like Bill Clinton wasn't on anyone's tongue; just like a lot of people didn't expect Barack Obama to take off like he did. I think we will have a lot of new people running, and there are obviously a lot of fantastic people who have run before, or standard-bearers, right. All right. So, I think there's just going to be a ton of those people.

We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?

I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

Corbyn and Trump don't seem to have anything in common except the assumption on the part of anyone subscribing at any level to the standard thinking that they could never achieve electoral success. They were supposed to doom, if not destroy, their party's future.

Side note, I was Prom Prince. My friend and I campaigned to be Prom King and Queen, and we got the rest of the non-popular people in the school to vote for us. We didn't win, but we got Prince and Princess.

Weird things happen when strange men run for election. See Donald Trump for details.

There are some who might say that somebody named Barack Obama can't be elected senator in the state of Illinois. They're probably the same folks who said that a guy named Rod Blagojevich couldn't be elected governor of the state of Illinois.

We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through.

It is very unusual for a country to ask guys who are not politicians to come and run the country.

The classic rules of American politics are dying, if not dead, if you look at the last two presidential elections. An African-American could never be president until one was; a TV reality star couldn't become president until one was.