Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Condoleezza Rice

The United States is not going to support any particular political candidate or any particular party or list.

Tim Scott

Is Romney a tea party candidate? I'd probably say that he's the least of the candidates running for president right now that would be considered a tea party candidate.

Tom Daschle

When you look at what John Edwards has done for working families, for people who have been fighting hard all their lives to make ends meet, I can't think of a more qualified candidate than John Edwards,

What this practice does is really put candidates on guard wherever they are, and make delivering speeches even to groups of supporters even harder.

We've reached our own economy of scale where we're being considered as the primary candidate for headquarters.

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.

George McGovern

I hope Howard Dean is like George McGovern. I thought I was a pretty good candidate in 1972. It's true that I lost to Richard Nixon in the general election by a big margin. But that wasn't my mistake. That was the mistake of the voters

John Schuerholz

I hope he gets in there. I think he is a very deserving candidate and wonderful human being. He'd be a very wonderful recipient.

Jack Germond

I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

In Ward A and Ward C, in particular, you have a difficulty in getting candidates to run. A lot of times, you just have a single candidate. If you have everybody at large, and everybody can run, you have a chance to have more people running - and I always think that the more people who run, the better, because then you get more study and discussion of the issues.

In the past we found these fairs very successful for us. We've recruited very good candidates that have enjoyed coming over and we really enjoy being here.

In the race for U.S. Senate, John Spencer is the only candidate that stands firmly in support of securing our borders.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Internet companies created the social-media tools that fueled the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street insurgencies, and that have helped political candidates rally grass-roots support.

Christine Pelosi

In politics, all candidates and volunteers are ambassadors to voters who expect better than parroting the politics of personal destruction. Being able to find common ground at the higher ground is what separates the stateswoman from the stuntwoman.

If you say that only conservative Republicans need apply, then you have diminished the pool of potential candidates significantly,

I never voted for a tax increase. I'm the only candidate in this race who can say that.