Nominee Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (N) Quotes

"It`s like you`re getting ready to go to Cinderella`s ball. And then, when you lose, it`s like you wake up and realize you`re not Cinderella." (on being an Oscar nominee)

- Judy Davis

(stating that the best moment in the 2004 campaign for Democratic presidential nominee was Howard Dean`s post-Iowa speech) "Because clearly everybody was captivated by it. I think that`s an argument why he should be President, because he can capture everyone`s attention. Listen, George W. Bush was a cheerleader. I`m sure he screamed like that when he was at Yale, and I don`t see why that disqualifies someone from being President. But George Bush did it in a human pyramid.

- Stephen Colbert

We`ll support whoever the Republican nominee is, but we expect to be that nominee,

- Edward Cox

There is no one right now in my judgment that can unite the Black electorate in such a way to present our agenda to a nominee to have them forthrightly address our concerns.

- Louis Farrakhan

No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic and we believe that this nominee is going to see to it that those truths are upheld.

- Rod Parsley

In the absence of any opposition to this candidate, the senator believed the president deserved his nominee,

- Leslie Phillips

Instead of focusing on electing a president in 2008, this commission appears to be heading down a precipitous path. If you have all theses caucuses front-loaded, Democrats will end up with a nominee by the middle of January.

- Kathleen Sullivan

The commission has recommended a very bad plan. It is my belief that it makes the nominating process much more narrow and less democratic. You will have a Democratic nominee chosen in three weeks in January of 2008.

- Kathleen Sullivan

I have a feeling she might cry. She was pretty excited when I told her I was a nominee.

- Rachel Williams

John Kerry will be the Democratic nominee for president. Democrats finally found someone who is Al Gore without the flash and the sizzle.

- Craig Kilborn

We have no way of knowing if someone is a nominee officer or a regular officer.

- Scott Anderson

The chief justice for 33 years has been the personification of the value of judicial restraint, and that is something that the president is equally committed to. I`m certain the president will abide by those beliefs as he looks for a nominee to replace him.

- Chuck Cooper

One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.

- Paul Begala

And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The Constitution doesn`t say that. The Constitution doesn`t say that that nominee shall have any vote at all. There doesn`t have to even be a vote.

- Robert Byrd

With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It`s not good enough to think, `This is the best we can expect from this president`.

- Barbara Boxer

we in the civil rights community need to hold the senators accountable, all the senators, for their vote on any nominee. And we need to ask them, ... what are you looking for in a judge and where do you draw the line and at what point will you step up and do the right thing?

- Stephanie Jones

I`ll leave it to others to try to determine whether or not that was unfair or not. I`m not the nominee.

- Aidan Troy

Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.

- Al Nigrin

On the political side, I was the Democratic nominee for the Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998.

- Alison O'Connor

Sen. Frist has every right, and indeed the duty, to see that every presidential nominee for the Federal bench at every level gets an up or down vote.

- Alison O'Connor

So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960`s, part of the drama was the fact that you didn`t know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week.

- Amanda Simmons

Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee.

- Amanda Simmons

I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.

- Andi Wise

After days of White House winks implying that Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers would be a reliable conservative vote because she is a devout Christian evangelical, President George W. Bush himself yesterday suggested that he picked her in part because of her faith.

- Arthur Alvarez

This is part of a strategy to put major people on first (to) get the nominee off to a big bang. The presenting of presidents, in particular, is a show of force ... It`s also sort of a gamble, but they are all going to reinforce Kerry`s qualifications and character.

- Arturo Sarukhan

The politics are going to get pretty hot once the new nominee comes in, because it`s the O`Connor spot. Why mess with the Roberts` nomination?

- Ashley Verplank

Roberts is going to be hard to oppose, on a principled basis. The next nominee is going to make someone unhappy.

- Ashley Verplank