Quotes About Nominating Someone

#1. I am fully aware of the fact that the Democratic Party, by nominating someone of my faith, has taken on what many regard as a new and hazardous risk.

John F. Kennedy

#2. I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.

Boss Tweed

#3. If you can laugh with your friends over something, you own it.

Jill Soloway

#4. Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.

Margaret Mitchell

#5. But this convention is about more than re-nominating President Obama. It's about Americans coming together to build one economy - not from the top down, but from the middle class out and the bottom up.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#6. People find it hard to get their heads around nominating a computer-generated character, but every time you see Gollum on the screen, that's me who is acting up there - even if it is behind a mass of pixels - and it's my voice you hear.

Andy Serkis

#7. We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.

Anne Lamott

#8. My first choice had always been my father. He's still my first pick. Now that the nominating process is over, tonight, I'm happy to announce that I'm going to be supporting Governor Romney.

Rand Paul

#9. I wish you couldn't figure me out, but you'd always want to know what I was about

Kate Nash

#10. With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

Theodore White

#11. In nominating young women and men to our service academies, it must only be about who you are, not who you know.

Ron Barber

#12. The no-secrets era of social media makes one consider the built-in risk factor of nominating high-testosterone men to positions of power at all. Everyone is under too much scrutiny now to take a chance on candidates who suddenly blow up into a comic meme, a punchline, a ribald hashtag.

Tina Brown

#13. Party machinery is not a fortuitous development, but is the direct result of the requirements of practical politics. The necessity of nominating candidates for offices leads inevitably to the development of caucuses and conventions.

Charles A. Beard

#14. I'm convinced Mr. Reagan would never be elected- I don't think his views are held by a majority of the American people ... it's the Republican party that's going to be committing suicide by nominating candidates of that genre.

John Anderson

#15. By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

Ron Fournier

#16. The G.O.P. is desperately seeking someone who can save the party from the fate of nominating Mitt Romney. But every time a non-Mitt throws his hat in the ring, the hat explodes.

Gail Collins

#17. Thoughts are universally and not individually rooted; a truth cannot be created, but only perceived. The erroneous thoughts of man result from imperfections in his discernment. The goal of Yoga Science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may mirror the Divine vision in the Universe.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#18. Where is it?" I asked, willing him to tell me.
He laughed suddenly, and I could hear the full-throated, grating sound of the white bear's laughter in it.
"East of the sun and west of the moon," he said.

Edith Pattou

#19. I don't care who does the electing, as long as I get to do the nominating.

Boss Tweed

#20. When you're making a film, it's a very technical process. You do things over and over again, and you have to hit your marks and your light and all that stuff.

James Marsden

#21. Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows.

Kathi Appelt

#22. The small is easy to scatter.

Laozi

#23. The future was chaos, war and blood and thirst, ending with everyone's bones bleached white in the desert. The sand would bury their buildings and bodies, and eventually it would be impossible to tell that anyone had lived in the desert at all.

Becky Allen

#24. From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business.

Michael Beschloss

#25. Every silver lining has a cloud.

Mary Kay Ash

#26. I am sometimes accused of being a dictator because I provoked the extraordinary elections by nominating the interim government. Can you imagine any dictator who provokes free elections in his own country?

Milos Zeman

#27. It is my hope that all of the Republicans who recognize that nominating a candidate who agrees with Hillary Clinton on a host of issues, who has a very similar record, is not the path to victory. And if we come together, if conservatives stand together, we're going to have a great night on Tuesday.

Ted Cruz