Famous Quotes & Sayings

Those that are elected on Tuesday, we're likely to have as presidential candidates six and 10 years from now.

What's a little ironic, nowadays companies won't give character references. ... They will confirm and deny dates, job titles and overall duties. The things candidates are lying most about are the things you can easily check up on.

We have about 13 to 14 rebel candidates contesting the elections either as independents or on tickets offered by other parties.

Twenty-five candidates already considered and rejected doesn't suggest that there are many names left to consider.

These are the kinds of issues that whip up people in primary elections. The turnout is going to be really low, so I think these candidates are looking for something that whips up the faithful and increases the turnout for them.

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.

I understand they are on schedule to invite candidates to talk about the position.

I understand there are four or five candidates who met the deadlines, and they'll go through the process just like any other coaching or teaching position.

When all of the conditions are right, we can carry out facial transplants at once. While we already have five or six candidates who might be the first to have such a kind of operation, we still need time to study their conditions.

The public is very smart and they look at the individual candidates more and more, I think, in this country and certainly in this city than they do party labels,

John Ridley

In every election cycle that I can recall, there comes a moment - or a few - where charges of elitism and claims of commonness are wielded by presidential candidates like a sword and shield: 'Vote for me 'cause I'm one of you. It's the other guy who's out of touch.'

I personally was happy that all three senatorial candidates were able to get their 20 percent and get on the ballot.

E. P. Thompson

Clinton playing the sax -- that's the gold standard. Number one -- because very few candidates had made such appearances before and -- number two -- because he did it on Arsenio Hall, which was kind of a cool, late night thing at the time. But most importantly, he played the sax. That would even be unusual today.

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.

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,

Because of all the money that was spent, it got voters more interested. If it had just been candidates who couldn't self-fund, I think turnout would have been much smaller.

Honestly, it wasn't (too tense). I know all of the candidates quite well, and I'm not a terribly competitive person, so I wasn't taking it as a personal battle.

Candidates who come within a narrow margin of defeat have a right to a discovery recount. There's definitely options for candidates who wish to pursue that route.

Candidates must figure on the short-list at least two years running to win,

Candidates have to look and see if, realistically, there is a way to get there.

Candidates are strategic about their decision to run. I'm sure there are people in the city of Murfreesboro, as vibrant as it is, who care about politics and would like to be mayor. They've just decided this isn't the right time to run.

Because we're very comfortable with our current lineup on our studio and game side of things, ... But we're always open to exploring potential candidates if the opportunity presents itself.

Elizabeth Smith

I don't think some of the candidates addressed some of the issues that should have been addressed.

Then from that group, we interviewed eight candidates (off-campus) and invited these candidates.

That's quite a lot of job candidates hitting the market. It depends on what the timing is going to be. If it is gradual, that would the transition easier.

It's important that the people of Cherry Hill get to know their candidates and what they stand for before they choose who they want to represent them,

It's nice to have a lot of people in the field. Independent, third party, Libertarian, Reform and other party candidates can do what they want to do. I welcome them to the race.

They don't want someone in office who truly signifies change, ... They want to hand-pick the candidates so they end up with someone who won't threaten the status quo here.

There were six qualified candidates before the primary. You could've put everyone's name in a hat and drawn out any name, and you would've been fine.