Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

I showed empirically that in the general election those crossover voters stayed with the candidate they had crossed over to support in the primary. A lot of Republicans preferred her in 1976 and stayed with her.

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.

They are all going to be making the same promises: more education, better economy. But if one candidate is more marketable, or comes out with a killer line, that could mean a lot.

The way I see it, there are three types of studies in science: one that moves a theory along, one that closes it and another that opens a new door altogether. This one opens a new chapter, introducing an entirely new molecular candidate for the study of anxiety, and we're going to be hearing a lot about it in the next 10 years.

We've been talking about this for a while, ... We had all the candidates in to talk to us. We talked about doing a vote long before this week.

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,

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.

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.

We wanted to shut down the system and get our candidate out early. If ever there was a foundering ship that was it. The longer we went on, the lower we went down in the polls. If we'd had a year we'd have been down around zero.

Ralph Nader

To shut out legitimate third-party candidates from these debates is to limit the competitive democratic process on which the American electoral system is supposed to be built,

We all know the issues. We all know the candidates in this race. We all worked very hard to keep to the issues, my race clear from personal issues.

To my knowledge, I'm the only candidate who lives on the neighbor islands. The competition is probably going to be shaping up over the coming few months. It's hard to say exactly who is running.

We're very enthusiastic about the current candidates who are under consideration,

We don't want to say 'Hey, let's go close Bonita.' when maybe there's another school in the parish that would be a better candidate for consolidation.

You go through their bio with a fine-tooth comb, because candidates have a proclivity for overstating their qualifications, especially their education and their war records.

You get 16 candidates on the stage, it turns into ... there's not a lot of meaningful information that's going to be exchanged.

At that point, we will go to the county and engage the leadership there to provide potential candidates. We'll review applications and find a qualified candidate and the governor will appoint a replacement.

a training ground for democracy in which the candidates ... actually had to campaign, to get out the vote. These are all skills that Egypt doesn't have in large measures, and they are going to be critical if a real opposition will develop.

John Prescott

At present there are more Tory candidates than I've had hot dinners - and you can see I have had a few,

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.

He's my candidate for defensive MVP, because what matters is how you play in November and December.

I consider the phase we're in now as the preprimary phase, where a candidate actually tests out whether or not they have any support or if they have any potential for winning their party's nomination. It's a very important first step ... and how we react in New Hampshire plays a big part in whether the candidate runs or doesn't run.

I congratulate the candidates of MAS that have carried out a good campaign.

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.