Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Green

That doesn't mean we will exclude other candidates that may live and work in the district. I'd just as soon have a local candidate.

Name recognition gets less important as the race goes on. The key candidates are all going to have enough money to get their own name out there. People will know who they are.

Grover Norquist

I tend to think that the more pro-reform candidate will win.

I think he's the most qualified, serious candidate Clay Shaw has ever faced.

I think he has come to realize the joy of coaching. I told him we will start preparations to list up candidates for his replacement. He said we need not to hold anything back because of him.

It created an opportunity for alternative candidates to emerge to exploit this dissatisfaction. None of them won, but certainly the elections were hotly contested.

I think it would be a good candidate for a warning. It's something that should be seriously considered.

I think Joe, really under the circumstances, did a great job for us. It's just that we really don't consider him a candidate right now.

I thought he was a very effective interim leader. I was disappointed that he evidently didn't consider himself to be a candidate for the permanent job. I think he stabilized the company during a disruption in the management team.

John Robertson is a strong candidate and one of the front-runners. He has a lot of the skills we are looking for. But there are a couple of dark horses on our shortlist.

Just because he is the last man standing doesn't necessarily mean he is going to be the candidate. Other candidates are going to emerge.

Donna Brazile

It is far better to have a candidate who is loose and not affiliated.

Harry Reid

It is especially important to identify a consensus candidate to succeed Justice O'Connor, who has been a voice of reason and moderation.

Making those under investigation candidates could send a message that the mafia appreciates, a message of impunity, a challenge to the justice system.

It is more important than ever to come up with a consensus candidate everyone can respect.

Don Johnston

I was a little surprised. It shows you how strong he is down district, because this was taken before we had our first candidate forum.

Really, it's the foundation of democracy. Any citizen can go to the precinct convention, take an issue or a concern, and ultimately take it to the state party and in other years all the way to the national party and the presidential candidates themselves.

David Newman

Organizations that have been granted tax-exempt status ought not endorse specific candidates for public office. What we have in Odessa, what some people actually seem to be proud of, is an ongoing problem with separating the prerogatives of church and state.

Pataki is the governor of New York, after all, and an unannounced candidate for president. If he's out of commission for a week or more, people will want to know why, even if the details make them squeamish.

Past election results show most 19th District residents don't want a far left candidate representing them.

Part of the problem is if the word is out that they're using your list, there's a sort of subtle insinuation that you're endorsing the candidate - and I'm not,

Paul is a candidate with a lot of talent, enormous potential, and if he runs a good campaign, he may win. If he runs a good race and doesn't win, he will be a more prominent commodity for the future.

The re-emergence of Kerry as a viable candidate has also put some pressure on health care stocks.

With those two, I told them I'd be glad if they'd be candidates in this particular race. They have experience.

John Thune

With this much clutter out there and this much money being spent on the airwaves, the candidates start losing control of the message,

Ben Affleck

would make a superb public candidate for public office in the future.

We're looking for hard-working individuals who recognize this as a great professional opportunity and possible career path into federal service. Our ideal candidate has equal parts desire to protect the flying public and strong commitment to America's security.

We're not here to influence voters; we're here to make sure they get to vote for the candidate of their choice.

Mohammed Dahlan

Thousands of names of voters and many of the names of candidates were dropped off (registration) lists.

While the ACLU understands that candidates will have a more difficult time reaching dislocated voters, the privacy rights of those individuals far outweigh the narrower interests of office seekers.

Jeff Cohen

We never had a conversation about which candidate Rick Greenspan liked. I gave him my opinion. I said, 'Steve Alford would be a great candidate.' I gave him my opinions. But it wasn't until recently that we had conversations about who was out there, who was available, who was interested, what our options were, that sort of thing. It hasn't been a very long time.

Judd Gregg

Unless you've got a national organization and a capability to run nationally, you aren't going to be a viable candidate of our party.

Karen Hughes

We are now in uncharted waters. We're in an unprecedented period where a presidential candidate is going to court essentially to try to contest and overturn the results of an election that has now been certified.