Political Nominations Quotes

President Trump has selected qualified, conservative nominees to serve in the federal judiciary and his administration.

Some people advocate public nomination and a three-track system - allowing voters and political parties to make nominations along with the committee. These people do not want any screening of candidates, but they have not clearly defined the concept of 'screening.'

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.

The point is that you see candidates running in these different kinds of contests. A primary shows you something that's different from a state party convention, which shows you something that is different than what a caucus shows you.

With the likely nominations of Barack Obama by the Democrats and John McCain by the Republicans, one of these two parties is headed for a 2009 crack-up that could prove as messy as any party civil war in recent history.

There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.

[Presidential] nominations are won consistently by the front-runners.

You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96.

In the end, the claim of a single Senator to control all nominations in his State will be found so preposterous that it will fall of its own weight.