Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

We called some candidates to relocate signs last week and when they were not moved this past weekend, we removed them. We collected 63 signs from six different candidates. We are not picking on anyone.

Sheldon Whitehouse

When you don't have accountability, there's no limit to the things that people will say. One of the restraints on the vitriol and the filth that so often is part of the American political debate is that candidates have to stand by their ads.

Filing fees have also been lowered for HUSA and Trustee candidates to encourage more people to run.

facilitated corruption by laying down and not putting up candidates who could win.

The governor wasn't there to endorse any candidate. He was simply there to create a format where Wisconsin residents could see and hear their candidates directly instead of through endless 30-second commercials.

Rebecca Jones

We were having difficulty recruiting qualified police officers, and we felt this policy may have prevented some good candidates from applying.

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.

We invite all the candidates to come and share their concerns and views. In the past some have not shown up but they are given the opportunity to come.

You are going to have candidates going into their hotel suites to watch the returns, knowing that anything could happen.

We've had concerns about the recent election where over 1,000 candidates were disqualified from running and there were many allegations of election fraud and interference,

We have communicated to the music-director candidates the current situation. It's our intention, as long as we are able to operate the season, to have those candidates come in.

We have candidates for seven of the nine races. None of these candidates are sacrificial lambs. They can all win.

Voters in the West are a neglected constituency. Presidential candidates have a responsibility to know the entire American family.

Voters elect candidates because they understand the issues rather than engage in leftwing fantasies.

Will Adams

We do not customarily endorse congressional candidates and we did not in this case.

We haven't had any sort of formal proposal but are concerned that we may lose good candidates to higher paying jobs.

The president has reviewed the candidates and we're planning to post them on Monday. The process is on schedule.

People want to feel good about the person they vote for. Candidates use values to evoke a positive impression.

Charles Schumer

New York has been the springboard from which the last two successful Democratic candidates for president won the White House, ... There is no doubt in my mind that New York's good fortune can launch a Democrat into the White House for the third time in 30 years.

Mark McKinnon

Presidential primary debates are an important part of our political process. But the media has wrested complete control from the parties and candidates over everything, including the number, the format, the qualifications, and the moderators. And they've become a circus.

Mark McKinnon

Donors, like voters, increasingly expect candidates to exercise fiscal discipline.

We have a model that's very acquisitive and we are looking at a number of acquisition candidates and we will continue,

Turnover is costly for employers, so they seek candidates with a history of job stability.

We did not seek him out. We notified the MPSA (Mississippi Private School Association) that we had a vacancy. We had a number of very qualified candidates that we interviewed.

We're not surprised that it's so close because you have four candidates in the race,