Ticking Off the Candidates

Jan. 3, 2008— -- As part of the "Meet the Candidates" series, Charles Gibson took us inside the presidential candidates' private lives to help us get to know the people behind the public figures who are campaigning across the country.

For tonight's segment, he asked the candidates, "What's your biggest pet peeve?"

Watch "World News With Charles Gibson" tonight at 6:30 p.m. ET for the full report

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., says that he gets irked by "hypocrisy."

"I hate hypocrisy," he told Gibson. "I really detest it."

What gets Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., really fired up?

"Cruelty," Obama simply said.

Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., seemed to agree.

"People being small-minded and ... cruel about other people, for no good reason." she said.

Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., says his pet peeve is "pettiness."

"You know, small minds, people who don't understand that you know the importance of the role they can play."

Former Sen. John Edwards just wants to get his own food.

"When you're out — when you're in a campaign — but you never get to order your own food." he said, "Somebody's bringing you stuff all the time, and they never bring you what you want. They bring you what they want, but they don't bring you what you want. And you never have time to order or complain about it — you just have to sort of take what you get," he said, laughing.

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., said he gets peeved by "people who are not considerate of others ... doesn't matter if it's on an airline, and they don't start gathering up their things until their rows are being emptied, or people who just seem oblivious to the fact that there are other people in the world besides themselves. That is, without a doubt, my pet peeve."

Rudy Giuliani admitted that he might be a little bit impatient.

Asked about what really irks him, he said, "I think, delay ... whenever there's delay ... I've got this inherent, I think, drive, to get something done, or you want the bad part of it — impatience," the former New York City mayor confessed.

Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., also had a practical pet peeve. "People who talk on their cell phones very loudly on the Metro," he told ABC News.

Don't keep Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M., waiting on an airport tarmac.

"Biggest pet peeve is the airlines. Commercial airlines. I'm for the Passenger Bill of Rights. Going on the runway, they don't tell you anything," he said, before adding, "They give you a pretzel this big."