Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think there?s a lot of viable candidates and a lot of times they look at somebody that?s done more, shown more ... It?s a real commitment for a kid, in the short term, to come back for a fifth year. And I think that makes an impression on (the players).

I thought we had nine good candidates. It wasn't that we eliminated any candidates because of what they said. It was that we kept these because they were better. I think everybody (on the board) thought these were the strongest candidates.

I thought they would be two candidates that should be interviewed. That's not going to happen.

John McLaren

I thought they were well prepared and I thought I was well prepared and we had good dialogue. I felt good about the way it went. Like all the other candidates feel like they're the guy, I feel like I'm the guy.

I think they want real candidates who really tell people what they think, and are actually willing to lose rather than distort their position,

Really, it's the foundation of democracy. Any citizen can go to the precinct convention, take an issue or a concern, and ultimately take it to the state party and in other years all the way to the national party and the presidential candidates themselves.

David Newman

Organizations that have been granted tax-exempt status ought not endorse specific candidates for public office. What we have in Odessa, what some people actually seem to be proud of, is an ongoing problem with separating the prerogatives of church and state.

But they are still the candidates on the general election ballot. You issue the candidate a declaration of his candidacy,

There are numerous candidates out there. The point I was trying to make was, we will get a home run. We'll find him and we'll make it work.

When they look at how the candidates stand on their own merits, then I think they'll see that I'm the stronger one.

It is a list for change and reform, composed of candidates from a new generation, our historic leaders as well as women and prisoners.

There are so many candidates in the race. Whoever can get a critical mass of voters will win the race.

Rick Perlstein

For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.

Steven Schier

Lightning probably won't strike again. Jesse's undistinguished tenure as governor in Minnesota, coupled with Arnold's troubles in California, make it unlikely that celebrity candidates will ever have the inviting luster of novelty that they had a few years ago.

David Johnson

None of these candidates really seems to be energizing anyone.

One worry is that candidates will talk out of a thousand sides of their mouth. What if they have a thousand messages that are different for every tiny part of the population? It's much harder to get accountability for what candidates say.

More limited- or low-income candidates need to be treated with respect. ... If we equate the dollars spent with the legitimacy of a candidate, we're in a dangerous situation.

most of those are on our target list of candidates that we're going to go after next fall.

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

Many of the candidates are known only as names and not individuals. People in Iowa and New Hampshire want to get to know you individually, or feel they do. . . . That kind of courtship takes a lot of time and effort.

shares the university's mission in cultivating a diverse pool of candidates for coaching and staff positions.

If the situation in Iraq has not improved, and if the hurricane causes an economic downturn, then Republican candidates have something to worry about.

I think he's one of the top two or three candidates for Coach of the Year.

Bill Clinton

I think he's got it. The Democrats need candidates whom people can relate to in a personal way, people who understand their lives and their concerns and share their values. And I think that's something Tim can do without even pretending.

I think he has come to realize the joy of coaching. I told him we will start preparations to list up candidates for his replacement. He said we need not to hold anything back because of him.

It created an opportunity for alternative candidates to emerge to exploit this dissatisfaction. None of them won, but certainly the elections were hotly contested.

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

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.

It's just a strategy that our district and other districts have started to employ. We're trying to ensure that we have a pool of qualified applicants by offering those opportunities in February or March rather than in August. Because by August, many of those candidates have found jobs.

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

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,

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