Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Mooney

After it's sewn up, its safe to vote for the odd candidate in order to make a statement.

Nancy Anderson

A couple of people are strongly considering running there but have yet to make their final decision. We're pretty confident that we will have a good candidate there.

Some patients aren't good candidates for current therapy strategies. Plus recent studies suggest that diet may play an important role in the development and recurrence of prostate cancer.

Scott Linehan

So we're going to be interviewing two or three candidates in the next four or five days and make sure they fit the requirements we have to coach our system and our defense.

So the African-Americans' candidates are progressing to the runoff.

Dick Cheney

Once you make the election you cannot change it, ... He had no knowledge at the time he would be a vice presidential candidate or that he might be going back into the government.

I've always been told someone will vote for a candidate they have met and shaken hands with. And let's face it. I'm that candidate. Tammy has been in this district for what, two months? I've been running for more than two years.

Sometimes the doctors that we were hoping to profile, or a hospital that understood our goal, would recommend a patient who would be a good candidate for a specific surgery. And sometimes we would find the patient and then help them find the doctor. Every case was different.

Rudy is definitely collecting some insider chits. But his problems remain at the grass roots. The rank-and-file Republicans who actually nominate candidates are much more conservative than Giuliani's record.

A candidate has no right to force himself upon an unwilling party.

David Dreier

A candidate for Congress who would be out knocking on doors, meeting with supporters, talking about issues, debating his or her opponent would come back to the headquarters and they would say, 'This guy, Tom DeLay, just sent home-baked cookies from Texas.

It's just a strategy that our district and other districts have started to employ. We're trying to ensure that we have a pool of qualified applicants by offering those opportunities in February or March rather than in August. Because by August, many of those candidates have found jobs.

It's fair to say that in this past cycle or two, we'll make some great strides. That could include contributing to some candidate victories.

Stuart Rothenberg

It seems to me there's a lot of smoke here, but I don't know how much heat. To the extent that any of these candidates are going to win, they will probably win because they are Democrats in a Democratic wave year, not because all of a sudden voters have embraced them because they are veterans.

It's a small truncated segment of the electorate, voters who are reasonably informed of the issues. I don't think the candidates have to do very much to win votes from those who share their views.

As long as FEMA is under DHS, problems are likely to continue. I'm told that at least three state emergency officials have turned down the job of FEMA Director because it is under the Department of Homeland Security. Everyone says FEMA needs a top-quality director, but how do we get one when the top candidates won't take the job?

That simple truth is that a libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, not in 2004, not in 2008, not in 2012.

Albany is a good candidate for that game as well. Also, the committee knows about everyone's injuries and those are a consideration.

This is a candidate who has been complaining for the better part of two years that Connecticut's jobs and economic development climate isn't everything it ought to be. Now he's proposing $350 million in new taxes on employers to pay for universal health care.

David Dinkins

This is about these particular candidates in this particular year. That's what motivates me.

This is a crucial time for the party. Voters will only have two more chances to meet the candidates before the primary in May.

A lot of other candidates from the wider financial industry wouldn't raise the notion of a conflict of interest.

The Yes vote sends a clear signal to candidate countries that we take their joining the European Union very seriously.

There were six qualified candidates before the primary. You could've put everyone's name in a hat and drawn out any name, and you would've been fine.

There needs to be a transfer of funds between the candidate and the political party. In this case that did not occur.

This many candidates can be daunting to voters. This forum allows the citizens to get to know more about the candidates. Plus, it gives the voters a chance to understand the important topics of our area.

This is the latest in a string of events that cause us serious concern about developments in Egypt, including reports of arrests of candidates and intimidation of voters in the recent parliamentary run-offs.

This is to give voters an informed choice about the candidates running for these two particular offices.

This is the time when good candidates decide whether they are going to run. And the atmospherics are not good for the party right now.

This is the time when good candidates decide whether they are going to run, ... And the atmospherics are not good for the party right now.

John Edward

They're interested in a candidate who they know could win some Southern states, which we have to do to win the general election. I'm the only candidate in the race, certainly now, who has any kind of record of being able to win a general election in a Southern state.

Jonathan Haidt

There's an enormous difference between voting for a candidate because you hate another ethnic group and voting for a candidate because he's a member of your ethnic group.

This is getting up there in unusual territory. Usually, you don't have that many candidates putting up a lot of money. Usually, there are one or two putting up big money, not six or seven.