Famous Quotes & Sayings

At that point, we will go to the county and engage the leadership there to provide potential candidates. We'll review applications and find a qualified candidate and the governor will appoint a replacement.

a training ground for democracy in which the candidates ... actually had to campaign, to get out the vote. These are all skills that Egypt doesn't have in large measures, and they are going to be critical if a real opposition will develop.

John Prescott

At present there are more Tory candidates than I've had hot dinners - and you can see I have had a few,

There have been occasions such as the 1988 debate involving Dan Quayle when questions were raised about whether the candidate was capable. The vice presidential debates don't matter until people mess up.

Bill Bradley

Washington can send a message to the rest of the country Tuesday that the nation wants a reform candidate who is going to clean up the mess in Washington (D.C.) and move us forward

We're very enthusiastic about the current candidates who are under consideration,

We don't want to say 'Hey, let's go close Bonita.' when maybe there's another school in the parish that would be a better candidate for consolidation.

You go through their bio with a fine-tooth comb, because candidates have a proclivity for overstating their qualifications, especially their education and their war records.

You get 16 candidates on the stage, it turns into ... there's not a lot of meaningful information that's going to be exchanged.

What's a little ironic, nowadays companies won't give character references. ... They will confirm and deny dates, job titles and overall duties. The things candidates are lying most about are the things you can easily check up on.

Fay Vincent

We gave each candidate a fair hearing, and I think the results will speak for themselves.

We have about six weeks to move John along. Hopefully he stays injury free. If he's not able to overcome any kind of injuries, he will be a candidate for possible replacement on the roster.

We have about 13 to 14 rebel candidates contesting the elections either as independents or on tickets offered by other parties.

Twenty-five candidates already considered and rejected doesn't suggest that there are many names left to consider.

You have to work harder at it. But you don't have to work as hard as if you were a U.S. Senate candidate or a congressional candidate.

We wanted to shut down the system and get our candidate out early. If ever there was a foundering ship that was it. The longer we went on, the lower we went down in the polls. If we'd had a year we'd have been down around zero.

Ralph Nader

To shut out legitimate third-party candidates from these debates is to limit the competitive democratic process on which the American electoral system is supposed to be built,

We all know the issues. We all know the candidates in this race. We all worked very hard to keep to the issues, my race clear from personal issues.

To my knowledge, I'm the only candidate who lives on the neighbor islands. The competition is probably going to be shaping up over the coming few months. It's hard to say exactly who is running.

The race is a jumble. There are half a dozen candidates who are in double digits, low double digits in the polls. Nobody's a front-runner.

The other candidates were kind of vicious on Jos coming from the school district.

There is no shortage of candidates for elimination. There is only the shortage of political will to make the difficult decisions.

Dom Starsia

There is still a lot of work to be done and decisions to be made at the defensive end of the field. There are a number of new, interesting and determined candidates that will fill important roles.

We will probably drop some tracts from the candidate list.

It would simply mean that there was another liberal candidate on stage.

It was very, very difficult. They have an All-American candidate (Crystal Langhorne). And if she steps off the court, they have another big girl coming in and picking up the slack.

Jon Soltz

These candidates truly are the A-Team. Every single one of them are in a position to win their races if given the proper support, which we promise to deliver to them.

These candidates tend to have cultural and geographical strengths, though they do lack industry experience. Still, that can be less risky in a technical setting, especially if this person is running a purely technical shop or research and development staff.

These results are great - I feel we've won. People are definitely supportive of the issue. I'm going to carry on - with the Minuteman Project and we'll be supporting candidates for Congress.

I showed empirically that in the general election those crossover voters stayed with the candidate they had crossed over to support in the primary. A lot of Republicans preferred her in 1976 and stayed with her.

I understand they are on schedule to invite candidates to talk about the position.

I understand there are four or five candidates who met the deadlines, and they'll go through the process just like any other coaching or teaching position.

They are all going to be making the same promises: more education, better economy. But if one candidate is more marketable, or comes out with a killer line, that could mean a lot.