Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Daschle

It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be.

I thought we had nine good candidates. It wasn't that we eliminated any candidates because of what they said. It was that we kept these because they were better. I think everybody (on the board) thought these were the strongest candidates.

I thought they would be two candidates that should be interviewed. That's not going to happen.

John McLaren

I thought they were well prepared and I thought I was well prepared and we had good dialogue. I felt good about the way it went. Like all the other candidates feel like they're the guy, I feel like I'm the guy.

David Weinberger

Every embarrassing moment is going to be shown on the Internet, whether the candidate likes it or not. The ones that can't deal with that are going to fail.

We are confident there are viable candidates in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

We are limiting each candidate to two minutes and questions will be posed to only the judge-executive candidates.

Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.

Robert Bell

The only reason the other candidates for the Senate are not here is because there are no corporations here writing checks.

Donna Brazile

If you rely on the media for your information, to educate yourself about the candidates and what issues are facing the country, then you get just part of the equation. I think it's important that we as citizens of this democracy take the responsibility to get as much information as possible before we go into the voting booth.

We will move just as quickly and efficiently as we can to focus on those candidates around the country who possess the talent and experience to lead our program back to its traditional position of prominence within the Big Ten and at the national level.

Marcus Samuelsson

While I hold my own political views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the real issues.

Bob Barr

Presidential and vice-presidential debates are not about campaign staff or consultants, and it is high time we as a people took control and reminded them and their candidates of that important fact.

I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.

Ben Horowitz

A good engineering interview will include some set of difficult problems to solve. It might even require that the candidate write a short program. In addition, it will test the candidate's knowledge of the tools she uses in great depth.

Al Sharpton

I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.

John F. Kennedy

I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters - and the church does not speak for me.

Chris Patten

We have to come away from Nice able to look the candidates for membership in the eye

There are lots of external candidates out there.

We made a conscious decision to become more involved politically. It's kind of been an evolution of the process in which we recognized that not necessarily to get a seat at the table but to get someone's ear, to be able to be an influencer, if you would, to support candidates that support our objectives for our customers, that we were going to have to be more involved.

This survey tells us that candidates who support pre-K have a better chance of winning at the polls.

Jacques Chirac

This summit of Nice will remain in European history as a summit that shaped the Union. It was important to keep our commitments to the candidate countries in central and eastern Europe.

There have been wealthy candidates before in California, but this is the first time we've seen wealth-on-wealth. The most obvious impact for voters is that they are going to see lots and lots of television ads.

When donors have wealthy relatives, that enhances the value of the donation. A candidate loves to know wealthy people who have big families.

Bob DuPuy

We've continued to meet and talk, probably on a daily basis, with the commissioner and with members of the committee, ... Several of the candidates have come in over the last couple of weeks and have gone down to mlb.com and have spent some time down there continuing their due diligence. Again, I see no reason why we can't make an announcement by Labour Day.

We clearly no longer are just the land of Humphrey and Mondale. We are a swing state, and I think you'll see a lot of candidates making their way here over the next two-and-a-half years.

We have four viable candidates to win the job.

Aaron Klein

When Obama was first proposed as a presidential candidate in 2007, the nation failed to have a meaningful debate concerning the serious constitutional issue of electing someone whose father was not a U.S. citizen.

We will do what we can to be helpful. We will be talking to all the various campaigns. The president wants to play a role in the final two weeks of the election -- helping Democratic candidates around the country, from the vice president to the first lady to various congressional members.

When a candidate looks at a community, they're looking to see if there's a match. Don (Yeoman) felt the challenge is the right challenge, but he had concerns about the support for education in the community.

We would have preferred a candidate who had a clear record on these issues.

The program is very important because it helps the recruiters be more effective to target qualified candidates for specific missions.

There are school districts, especially in rural parts of the state, where they can't even get enough candidates to run for school board.