Famous Quotes & Sayings

We want to run candidates (for City Council) that will dissolve the city.

We have never had a more qualified and capable champion of personal and economic freedom than the 2012 Libertarian Party candidate for President of the United States - Governor Gary Johnson.

Harry Reid

We want him to give us a candidate who is mainstream, not extreme.

The perception that candidates who are war veterans are influencing the national party is wrong.

We started the process in October, had 12 candidates which we reduced to three, then two, and today was the day the decision was made.

We're in talks with about three to four Chinese candidates for a joint venture brokerage, and we should be able to set it up sometime this year.

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.

What we're seeing around the country is a concerted effort by Democrats to manufacture momentum by talking up a lot of candidates with no resources.

Steve Ross

What this decision stands for is that there is a limit to the circumstances under which the federal government can dictate to the citizens of Nevada who they can or can not have as candidates for state or local office,

while we do not know this evening which of the two candidates will be chosen as the newly elected leader of Liberia, we do know that today, Liberian voters haven taken a major step towards rebuilding their nation.

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.

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.

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.