Martin O'Malley
Gilles Duceppe avoids making campaign promises altogether so he can emphasize that his Bloc Quebecois has only one objective: to prevent Harper from forming a majority government.
My all-time favourite political promise - more a boast than a promise, really - came from former Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, who said in the lead-up to the 1976 Olympics, 'The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.'
I have 15 years of executive experience as a big-city mayor and as a governor.
The presidency of the United States is not some crown to be passed between two families.
History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.
We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.
I believe that there are new perspectives that are needed in order for us to resolve the problems that we face as Americans and also the problems we face as people on this planet, and I believe that new perspective and new leadership is needed.
Senator Mikulski has done an outstanding job representing Maryland in the U.S. Senate for nearly 30 years.
I did not dedicate my life to making Baltimore a safer and more just place because it was easy.
There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are told they are unneeded by this economy. And that extreme poverty breeds conditions for extreme violence.
The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.
I believe marriage is a human right, not a state right.