Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Grasso

If the test on Saturday were to prove to be problematic, long before Monday at 9:30 a.m. we will be very candid with member firms and the American public,

He would be a superb candidate for public office in the future.

Donna Shalala

He's your dream candidate for president of the United States, ... He's a moral man, an intellectual. He thinks through issues, he struggles. He shows the complexity of decision-making in the White House.

He's been a four-year starter and averaging a little over 10 points and six rebounds a game for his career. He's never been an all-conference player, but he's certainly a candidate this year.

Jack Reed

He must be candid and honest about the current situation, what is at stake, what it will take to succeed, how long the mission will last and what it will cost.

This wasn't an easy situation to start with. Nate wished he had been a candidate for the permanent position, but he understands why he wasn't. I told him, Here is another opportunity for you.'

Robert Heller

What each candidate wants to do will have an impact on the economy, there is no question about that. It's how they are proposing to implement their plans that is so dramatically different.

Geraldine Ferraro

The purpose of the debate is to find where the two of them are and where the two candidates are on the issues and I think the format is bad.

The people that control the money, chose the candidates, back the candidates so they can run and that's who you're given as a choice.

Mrs. Reagan has not endorsed any candidate in the campaign. Neither she nor President Reagan ever endorsed a candidate in a primary.

David Johnson

None of these candidates really seems to be energizing anyone.

One worry is that candidates will talk out of a thousand sides of their mouth. What if they have a thousand messages that are different for every tiny part of the population? It's much harder to get accountability for what candidates say.

Dick Gephardt

My dad was a Teamster, ... I think there are a lot of working families out there that want a candidate for president and want a president that will remember the struggle that people go through every day to make a living, to raise their kids, to educate their kids, to have health care for their family.

More limited- or low-income candidates need to be treated with respect. ... If we equate the dollars spent with the legitimacy of a candidate, we're in a dangerous situation.

More and more human resource executives are coming to the realization that they can no longer drag their heels on hiring decisions. If they do, it is increasingly likely that the candidate will be off the market before the offer is made.

My honest first, candid thought was, I hope this isn't messy,

Maybe he is the candidate I should have been looking for.

Julian Castro

Obviously I'm young and I'm also Hispanic, two important groups in this election. And I'm confident that I can do a good job in articulating why President Obama ought to be the candidate that Americans select for the next four years.

Tom Daschle

We want to make this as competitive a race as there is in the country, ... Frank Lautenberg's record, his reputation and the kind of candidate he is assures that, but we want to give him the resources to make sure he's got what he needs to get over the top.

We want to make sure the candidate we choose has the level of integrity we feel necessary to carry on the pride and tradition that has been established.

On all these levels, this guy's ready to go. He's done everything a candidate is expected to do.

Should the lieutenant governor decide to run, he will be a very formidable candidate and someone who will also have the resources necessary to mount a successful campaign.

most of those are on our target list of candidates that we're going to go after next fall.

Gerry Adams

We have a range of candidates who are ... working on a whole range of social and economic issues

Gerry Adams

We have a range of candidates who are bedded in their local constituencies over quite a long period of time, who are working on a whole range of social and economic issues as well as the big national question, as well as the peace process, as well as the whole issue of Irish unity -- so we're going to do well,

We have invited every single candidate who is running for office. It's a community thing. People need to see the community coming together and become a part of this movement and have some piece of ownership.

Larry Sabato

Lots of things that smell are legal. But if a candidate is putting an emphasis on ethics, then he has an obligation that the spirit of the law be adhered to, not just the letter.

Last year, we took several steps to improve the financial profile of the Company, and we now enter 2006 with a stronger financial position and the operating leverage that supports investment into later-stage clinical programs. Specifically, our financial strength enables us to invest comprehensively in VX-950 and develop this product candidate to its full clinical and commercial potential. We are committed to maintaining the trajectory toward a 2008 NDA filing for VX-950.

Many of the candidates are known only as names and not individuals. People in Iowa and New Hampshire want to get to know you individually, or feel they do. . . . That kind of courtship takes a lot of time and effort.

shares the university's mission in cultivating a diverse pool of candidates for coaching and staff positions.

She will be judged by the same metric that any other candidate in New Jersey will be judged.

Rick Perlstein

For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.

Steven Schier

Lightning probably won't strike again. Jesse's undistinguished tenure as governor in Minnesota, coupled with Arnold's troubles in California, make it unlikely that celebrity candidates will ever have the inviting luster of novelty that they had a few years ago.