Nomination Quotations

In 2010 and 2012, I won the Democratic nomination in the 22nd Congressional District on the program 'Save NASA Impeach Obama,' without any organizational or financial backing from the party.

The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process.

With her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,' Rooney Mara gave fashion fans a new Gothic-chic muse.

If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with soldiers deployed in two theaters of war, has had multiple meetings with Dick Cheney, the former vice-president of the United States, to discuss Petraeus's candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency.

I'm from North Carolina, and I stand here humbled, honored, and proud to place in nomination for the office of vice-president of the United States of America, my friend and my senator from the great state of North Carolina: John Edwards.

Barack Obama's official nomination as the Democratic Party's standard-bearer was a very poignant moment for millions of Americans. As the first non-white major party nominee, Obama is carrying a big load on his shoulders. He's holding the hopes and dreams of a lot of folks who thought the presidency was only reserved for white men.

For people to even think that I'd be considered or a good candidate for a supporting actress nomination is mind blowing to me.

We applaud the five judiciary members who voted their conscience and took a principled position in opposition to the nomination of John Roberts to be Chief Justice of the United States. However, we are profoundly disappointed that the committee, as a whole, ignored compelling evidence against his nomination.

We still plan to complete Senate floor action on the Roberts nomination by the start of the new Supreme Court session, Oct. 3, 2005.

What a great ending to a magical year! The nomination is made all the more sweet by the fact that I'm in the company of my dear friends and co-stars.

We failed to agree over the nomination mode between the electoral college of delegates and direct party membership system.

Would any of his aides have the nerve to tell him that as Supreme Court jurists go, Gonzales would be mediocre - and not a solid bet to move the court in a constitutionalist direction? Would any of them have the nerve to explain to the president that a Gonzales nomination would utterly demoralize many of his supporters, who are sticking with him and his party, through troubles in Iraq and screw-ups with Hurricane Katrina, precisely because they want a few important things out of a Bush presidency - and one of these is a more conservative court?

There are too many questions still to be answered, too many doubts still to be alleviated to say that this nomination is a slam dunk,

Luckily nobody was harmed. The Oscar nomination has cheered everyone up.

One of the things that I talked to her about was the complexity of a Supreme Court nomination hearing because there are a lot of complicated issues. And I said to her, 'You've got a pretty good road map in what went on with Chief Justice Roberts.

Now that Roberts' nomination has been reported out of committee, we strongly urge senators to vote their conscience and reject his nomination when it reaches the floor. The stakes are too high and the consequences too great to gamble.

One of the great ironies of this nomination is that it requires the White House machine to stop and spin in the opposite direction than they did in Roberts.

I would be honored to be speaker if I am fortunate enough to be re-elected and we are fortunate enough to retain the majority. I believe I will be the only nomination from our (Democratic) caucus.

I am humbled by this nomination and so grateful to Al Gore for choosing me, and I want you to know, I will work my heart out to make sure Al Gore is the next president of the United States.

I believe the next nomination is going to be a great deal more contentious than the Roberts nomination. I say that because, bubbling just below the surface was a lot of frustration in the hearing that we just concluded.

I believe that such a transgression undermines the good order and discipline of the military, ... ... It places the nomination in doubt in the U.S. Senate.

But certainly there's no panic going on, as has been displayed by the nomination of the squad.

I did not have anything to do with the nomination or the final award selections so I am rather pleased to see that two people from Andalusia received such prestigious awards.

I'd watch for a rematch with these gentlemen--absolutely. If the loser goes out in a dignified manner, he'll be a shoo-in for his party's nomination in four years.

Giving an Oscar nomination to this film glorifies inexcusable actions. It may even encourage future homicide bombings.

What Ma should do now is not get involved. He should take the chance to establish a nomination mechanism and allow the primaries to decide the final candidate.

We're on par to win the nomination with flying colors. It remains to be seen what kind of showing Jim Gilchrist is going to make. ... He's talked about one issue and this is a fairly sophisticated district.

What we have been preparing for the entire time is a nomination process that's going to go well into March. We're prepared for that. We have the resources to do that.

Here in the West, our word is our bond and a promise and a handshake mean something. This is President Bush's second nomination to replace a Western justice with one from the East Coast. I think we need more Western common sense and ethics on the Supreme Court, not less.

Gonzales's nomination may very well do us more harm internationally because of his relationship with the terror memos and that is a different story.

There are simply too many reasons to doubt this nomination and not enough reasons to have faith in it.

Just look at the Judiciary Committee, ... You have some people on the Judiciary Committee who may well decide not to send the nomination to the floor, and now it all depends on what Democrats do.

Just take our name off the list. .Ê.Ê. The nomination is meaningless, because it's not voted on by the fans .Ê.Ê. .

Just take our name off the list. . . . The nomination is meaningless, because it's not voted on by the fans . . . .

I think you should do one nomination at a time, even though it would be nice to know who the president is thinking of,

I think you'll see, just by yourselves, taking a look at the energy and fire and the numbers here, this nomination belongs to us,

I think that the difficulty for Al Gore is that he started with the sense that the nomination was coming his way, that major opponents like (House Minority Leader) Dick Gephardt and (Nebraska Sen.) Bob Kerrey dropped out. I don't think he realized how formidable the challenge would be coming from Bill Bradley or just in general.

It is hardly possible that a person could achieve nomination for appointment to the United States Supreme Court and yet have no opinions about the significant constitutional issues and cases of our day, ... And the fact that the nominee does have such opinions and voices them will not undermine impartiality or the appearance of impartiality such that he or she would be disqualified when those issues or cases come before the court.

I will not be able to support his nomination on the Senate floor.

Open nominations means it is local Liberals who choose who gets to be their representative. But what that doesn't mean is that somebody can behave any which way and bully other people out of the nomination and then be the last person standing.

Our focus has been on having a hearing and putting the Senate in a position to move on the nomination prior to the expiration of Chairman Greenspan's term,

Our whole strategy has been to get through the primary, get the nomination and then things will open up,

Roberts' nomination was the result of surprise, not consultation,

Many folks, including me, frankly, were disappointed that Senator Landrieu a few years ago filibustered and supported that filibuster of Miguel Estrada ... after she had expressed strong support of that very nomination in her re-election campaign,

I will win the nomination and I will beat Al Gore,

I was hoping the album would do well. But the nomination gives it a little validation, I guess. I mean, for a first project, it really did well, and I was a little surprised.

I think she should consider it. I think her nomination is a mistake. She doesn't have the intellectual distinction or the track record to really justify putting her on the Supreme Court. I think she should consider withdrawing her name, going to the President and saying 'thank you for the honor but I can serve you as WH counsel and there are plenty of other qualified people to go to the Supreme Court.'

I think most of the American people were upset during the Zoe Baird nomination that she hired an illegal alien. That was what upset them more than the fact the she did not pay Social Security taxes,

I think if Edgar gets in the race, he'll win the GOP nomination and beat Blagojevich,

I think it would be an extreme poverty indeed if there weren't more than one person willing to compete for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party.

Just because his nomination might not meet the threshold of extraordinary circumstances doesn't guarantee that I will vote to confirm him. We will have to examine his record and wait and see.

I would like to see the nomination withdrawn. If I were in the Senate today I would vote against it. My guess is, she will not be confirmed, and she will be withdrawn.

My central question still remains .... Is there objective, written evidence from prior to her nomination that fully shows that she has a truly consistent and well-grounded conservative judicial philosophy?

You can get a nomination and the individual winning is unacceptable to a large faction of the party. That's a problem.

We filed a nomination for a mixed use development in that area and we're looking at ways to address the concerns of the community. Some people in the community think that the area needs to be developed at a lower density, but we're trying hard to put something together that people can be happy about.

was the complexity of a Supreme Court nomination hearing because of there are a lot of complicated issues.

The reaction of many conservatives today will be that the president has made possibly the most unqualified choice since Abe Fortas who had been the president's lawyer. The nomination of a nominee with no judicial record is a significant failure for the advisers that the White House gathered around it. However, the president deserves the benefit of a doubt, the nominee deserves the benefit of hearings, and every nominee deserves an up or down vote.

Walk the Line' has done very well so far but there are still a lot of people haven't seen it. A Best Picture nomination could increase the turnout.

We will fight this nomination tooth and nail. We have taken the position of: By all means necessary.

We think this is going to be an easy sell, particularly now that party nomination for Republicans is closed and we have a sharp distinction between Bob Dole and Bill Clinton,

This time around they are not going to get their nomination until a decision has been made. You cross somebody and lose their trust, it becomes very difficult to do things the second time around.

The party would not accept the nomination if the candidate did not sign the nomination form.

The only thing that's going to be fatal to this nomination is how she performs before the committee. If she performs all right, then she's obviously going to be approved. But if she doesn't perform well, she probably won't be approved.

The governor is extremely pleased the nomination is going forward and she looks forward to the confirmation.

While this nomination did not warrant an attempt to block the nominee on the floor of the Senate, the next one might.

The recent nomination of John Roberts has spurred our country into a conversation about the court's role in our society,

There can be no turning back, and for that reason I oppose the nomination of Judge Roberts as chief justice.

What's changed? It's not the quality of the nominees, it's the qualities of the process. I really do worry that we're going to take the Supreme Court nomination process and boil it down to abortion. That won't be good for the country.

We will win this nomination battle, but as in the past it's going to take a huge amount of effort by the entire community, everybody pitching in. In the end, I do think we'll prevail.

We certainly hope to fill all of our nomination categories. And make an award in each of those categories.

This nomination will not move forward until there is a yes or no decision on Plan B.

This nomination is a catastrophe, ... I don't think there is a way she can end up being confirmed.

This nomination did not set off alarm bells with any of us, and we're pleased about that,

This nomination certainly raises the stakes in making sure that the American people and the Senate know Judge Roberts' views fully before he assumes perhaps the second most powerful position in the United States.

This nomination brings controversy to an agency that's at a crucial, critical time in its history,

Even if you get a nomination for best picture but have no chance in hell of winning you can reap incredible profits at the box office.

Bill's competition for this nomination has contributed a great deal to the debate about making the Commonwealth a better place for all Pennsylvanians.

a troubling new allegation which needs to be fully investigated at the time of the hearing. It's already an extremely troubling nomination because of her long-standing hostility to the basic rights of American workers.

I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president,

It would have been useful to have had a nomination of a successor prior to Jackson Hole because, in a way, Jackson Hole is a farewell to Chairman Greenspan.

It would have been a very difficult scenario for me to have voted against your nomination simply because you did not fulfill the requirements you were supposed to fulfill.

They agreed to return the nomination sheet to me by the first of next week, and we'll put together a ballot for them, just like a regular election.

The word is that the justices very much applaud his nomination to be chief justice, ... He has the potential, almost from a running start, to bring a new day and a new era to the Supreme Court.

Presidential standing is always a factor with any nomination that is so highly visible and so symbolic of a president's power, and I think it will be here.

Pro-Choice Minnesotans are proud that Sen. Dayton stood up for our fundamental freedoms and opposed John Roberts' nomination to serve as chief justice,

Pro-Choice Minnesotans are proud that Senator Dayton stood up for our fundamental freedoms and opposed John Roberts' nomination to serve as chief justice.

probably the most mismanaged nomination I've ever seen by the White House.

No Republican can win their party's presidential nomination without the institutional backing of Republican power-brokers like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. Over the past few months, we have seen John McCain back anti-marriage amendments, stump for anti-gay activists running for elected office and demonstrate his dependence on social conservatives.

The ones who are in favor of the nomination live near the 50 acres of forest we want to preserve. The majority of people who are opposed to it say they think this type of mid-rise condos is out of keeping with the rest of the development in the area.

Once you step down, you can do whatever you want, but the premise would be to seek nomination for the party, go back to your riding in a by-election or general election, and seek the mandate of the people. The bill also allows for an individual to sit as an independent.

Anyone who thinks that this nomination is a foregone conclusion is sadly mistaken.

A nomination does not mean it will have clear sailing to being listed. What gets listed on the national register, unfortunately, is subject to the will of the governor's office.

Anything less may generate opposition to the nomination from the president's own supporters.

Any rubber stamping of this new nomination would be a disservice would be a disservice to the country.

As a graduate of both our undergraduate program and our school of law, she brings honor to SMU through this nomination and through her distinguished legal career,

The calls to withdraw are serious, and they're going to increase. The more that we heard from the nomination's defenders, the more people became convinced that there was no substance in the nomination and that her friends were her worst enemies.

The calls to withdraw are serious, and they're going to increase, ... The more that we heard from the nomination's defenders, the more people became convinced that there was no substance in the nomination and that her friends were her worst enemies.

The buzz I'm hearing around town is he's a relatively unknown choice, but an interesting one. It will be interesting to see how the nomination hearing goes.

You're always surprised. Even people who were considered locks for a nomination were surprised. This year, there are so many first-time nominees, 14 out of the 20 in the acting categories, I believe. I'm sure it was overwhelming for everybody, but I definitely was surprised.

This is a nomination that was launched with little momentum, and the momentum is decreasing by the day,