"The David Palmer presidency became mired down in treachery, a dead wife and lies to the police about where the wife (before she died) had been at the time of the death of a man who was blackmailing the president. In view of this I just don't think America is ready for another black president so soon after the last one."

"The choice is clear. It's either a black president, a female president or the oldest president ever to take office in history.

George W Bush's true legacy might turn out to be that he is the last middle aged, middle class white man ever to be president. That I can live with if we avoid even just one more Bushism."

"David Palmer listened to the intelligence services a bit too much for my liking. I want a president with a mind of his own.

So when, say, Jack Bauer phones up Barack Obama to tell him of a problem... I just hope that Obama refuses to listen to a word he says, and questions everything. That is who I want in the White House - a guy who doesn't listen to anyone other than his own gut instincts."

"David Palmer may have been a better president than Obama will ever be, but I never liked Palmer's choice of a wife. How can a man so supremely competent in the face of national disasters have married such a scheming bint?"

"I think the only thing to do is to ask Keifer Sutherland, who plays Jack Bauer in TV's 24, who he wants as president, and then take it from there. It's the least we can do as Bauer has sacrificed so much for his country."

"I will be voting for John McCain. Before I die I want to have just one more president who is older than me. I say: Let's have no more whipper snappers in the White House, vote McCain!"