A potato candidate.The best part of him isunderground.

-Anonymous
  Of  Adlai Stevenson and his respectable ancestors. In the Washington Post, 9  Jan.

This is a candidate of probity and integrityöI am going to back him to the full.

-Hague,William
  On  Jeffrey Archer as a London mayoral candidate, at the Conservative Party conference, Oct.

   The only candidate who can whistle Dixie while humming the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

-O'Brien,JohnJ
  Of President Johnson. Quoted in HaroldBrayman (ed)  The President Speaks Off the Record (1976).