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.

Jim Lehrer

When I raise my right hand to you (just before the candidates arrive), ... that means, 'That's enough. Cool it. Let's go.'

There are fewer MBA candidates out there than there were five years ago because companies are hiring more.

George Fetherling

The heart was always seen as the noblest of the internal organs as well as the most vital. The hearts of martyrs or future candidates for sainthood would be preserved, but never their livers, say, or the entrails - at least not on their own; it was either the heart by itself or the whole lot together.

We have people who have served in local and county offices and school boards. They are serious candidates and will offer voters an alternative. We are going to take back our government fair and square. Through the electoral process.

The reality is candidates always do what candidates have to do. A candidate is going to go in and say, what do we need to do to win?

The reality is candidates always do what candidates have to do.

When we were fighting the third term 'King Cobra' was still in MMD. He fought all potential candidates and took them out of the MMD. He got out of MMD after 90 minutes of the game.

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

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,

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.

That's a huge expense. Most of these pre-presidential-type candidates will do this and use their leadership PACs as much as possible.

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.

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.

In Cairo this requirement fortunately does not apply, but it is perplexing and penalizes candidates from small parties.

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.

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.

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.

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.