Famous Quotes & Sayings

Election years make the Lincoln-Reagan Day Gala even more important. There are normally more candidates during an election year ? the time people really want to speak to and meet the candidates.

(Early voting) is always a time which the best-organized candidates have a little more of an advantage. The better-organized candidates can get their people to the polls early.

Essentially the same men who would be candidates for a prostate surgery are also candidates for radiation therapy.

Edmund White

Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office.

(Ferguson) is clearly one of the strongest candidates we got to look at.

Everything reflects the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the demographics of the city. That impacted how many white candidates perceive their political fortunes.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Stephen Harper

I like the position we're in. I think we're ready for an election. I think we've got the members, the money and candidates and the support we need to have an election at any time.

I like the idea of changing it so that everybody runs at large - because I think you get better candidates to run.

I'm certain we'll have candidates step forward, but I couldn't speculate on who they may be at this time, because I don't know. It will be interesting to see who runs.

If Utah goes on February 5th, all these candidates have to come to Utah early in the schedule.

Mike Wallace

If you feel that strongly that we can get better candidates from California, let's get our next mayor or our next commissioner from there.