Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is no shortage of candidates for elimination. There is only the shortage of political will to make the difficult decisions.

Dom Starsia

There is still a lot of work to be done and decisions to be made at the defensive end of the field. There are a number of new, interesting and determined candidates that will fill important roles.

We will probably drop some tracts from the candidate list.

John Engler

We've never seen a candidate like John McCain who went out to rent Democrats for a day and get himself a nomination,

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.

This survey tells us that candidates who support pre-K have a better chance of winning at the polls.

Jacques Chirac

This summit of Nice will remain in European history as a summit that shaped the Union. It was important to keep our commitments to the candidate countries in central and eastern Europe.

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.

When donors have wealthy relatives, that enhances the value of the donation. A candidate loves to know wealthy people who have big families.

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.

Marcus Samuelsson

While I hold my own political views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the real issues.

Bob Barr

Presidential and vice-presidential debates are not about campaign staff or consultants, and it is high time we as a people took control and reminded them and their candidates of that important fact.

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.

Aaron Klein

When Obama was first proposed as a presidential candidate in 2007, the nation failed to have a meaningful debate concerning the serious constitutional issue of electing someone whose father was not a U.S. citizen.

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.

When a candidate looks at a community, they're looking to see if there's a match. Don (Yeoman) felt the challenge is the right challenge, but he had concerns about the support for education in the community.

We would have preferred a candidate who had a clear record on these issues.

Fay Vincent

We gave each candidate a fair hearing, and I think the results will speak for themselves.

We have about six weeks to move John along. Hopefully he stays injury free. If he's not able to overcome any kind of injuries, he will be a candidate for possible replacement on the roster.

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.

You have to work harder at it. But you don't have to work as hard as if you were a U.S. Senate candidate or a congressional 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.

For the 15 member states, it's strategic objective Number One. For candidate countries, it's a light at the end of the tunnel.

He called Weld ''an outstanding candidate for governor.

Her desire for self-aggrandizement is greater than her loyalty to the candidate the party supports.

Our Democratic candidates up and down the slate are honest, qualified, enthusiastic people.

People that were really good candidates didn't make the cut, and I'd like to know why.

Officially I can say the following: we have a candidate in place, and his personal terms have been agreed.