Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stuart Rothenberg

While they have received plenty of ink, it is far from clear that any of them will win... A military record is a credential that voters may consider, but they often prefer to use other vote cues to pick the candidate for whom they will vote.

While the numbers game will not necessarily give a true picture as to which candidate has the inside edge, it is still a momentum booster,

While the impact of endorsements is somewhat suspect, in a close three-way race like this, the third-place candidate could exercise influence and impact." ()

You cannot please each and everybody. Winning chances of a candidate is what we are looking at.

That's a huge expense. Most of these pre-presidential-type candidates will do this and use their leadership PACs as much as possible.

Every vote that goes to a PC candidate that should be going to Lois is a concern to us. It could cost Lois the election.

Alan Dershowitz

The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn't been completely candid in describing the facts or the law.

The midterm elections will be decided in places like Washington state and Michigan, not in Washington, D.C.. Our candidates will have a clear message and clear vision. That's not something you see from Democrats either in D.C. or from their challengers in the states.

The middle-of-the-road voter is interested in the future, where we are going to go, where the two candidates want to lead the state.

There's very little to gain from a debate and there's always a possibility they'll make a mistake and give the other candidate a chance to get back in.

These numbers aren't a whole lot different than a year ago despite the fact that we've had four candidates taking shots at us for the last year. Jim Gibbons has been able to weather all that.

I want to make sure that this party fields the strongest possible candidate that can defeat Hillary Clinton. So I think it is very important that we have a very strong candidate. And until we are comfortable that we have that strongest possible candidate, we need to continue to look.

The NDP wanted to delay the elections to gather themselves. The make-up of the local councils in the current situation ... makes the candidate of the NDP the only player in presidential elections.

The NDP (National Democratic Party) wanted to delay the elections to gather themselves. The make-up of the local councils in the current situation makes the candidate of the NDP the only player in presidential elections.

Jim Gilmore

It's not about me. I want (the people of Virginia) to vote for the candidate who has demonstrated real leadership as the head of a state government.

In Cairo this requirement fortunately does not apply, but it is perplexing and penalizes candidates from small parties.

Nan Aron

In most cases, a candidate enjoys a honeymoon period after the nomination.

In late 1993, (Wilson) was at 31 percent, which is even lower than the governor's numbers today, ... He went on to win by 10 points in 1994. There was a lot of grumbling about Pete Wilson, but he was able to distinguish himself from (Democratic candidate) Kathleen Brown, latched onto illegal immigration as an issue and it propelled him to victory. The quality of the campaign, the way candidates raise the salience of issues - all those things matter.

Catherine Helen Spence

In all my travels and visits I saw little of the theatre or concert room, and some of the candid confessions of Mrs. Oliphant might stand for my own.

I know when we started soliciting candidates to challenge incumbents that people had this fear that we would end up with a group of people right out of the Cantina from Star Wars.

I knew there were two guys interested. Two guys that I thought would be possible candidates to interview. After four weeks we were told that we shouldn't interview them. That was my list. My list had two guys.

I'm not being cynical. I'm being realistic. Most people have an honest view of how the candidates are selling themselves. Voters should be included in the situation and get some of the windfall.

I have several other candidates that are good prospects, so onward and upward.

Jeff Cohen

I'm sure he did. We inquired into a million guys' interest. Was he a candidate that we talked about? Absolutely. Was he one of my top five? No.

In general we would be talking about enhancing the existing properties. There are some that would be candidates for being torn down, the Imperial Palace being the first on the list.

Oh my goodness, we've heard such horribly accented Spanish in the past six months, I can't tell you. You kind of wince and you say, 'OK, let's get through the Spanish,' because you know the candidate is really trying to say something to Latinos.

It's wonderful. The speakers, such as keynote speaker (U.S. Sen.) Lamar Alexander, will speak, sign autographs, and we will have tables with various prizes such as the ones sent by presidential candidate John McCain.

Jeffrey Sachs

It's time for other candidates to come forward that have experience in development.

It's to prevent any interference by local police, which the candidates have complained about,

The two candidates have worked very hard to raise the money and I am very thankful to them.

The volunteer task forces were a major phenomenon in this campaign. Having found that the official task force had members who were also candidates who had to look for their own votes, these groups emerged in different regions and for different purposes specific to those areas.

There should be a transformation and reform in our electoral system starting with the moral fiber of our own candidates including the leadership in the commission and our field people.

There's nothing that we do that would cause a candidate to quit the course.