#nominee

'Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#appointment #build #congress #factor #friends

I absolutely believe that, come November 2012, I'm going to be governor of New Jersey and not in any other office. But the fact of the matter is, if Gov. Romney, who's going to be our nominee, picked up the phone and called me to talk about this, I love my country enough and I love my party enough to listen. ↗

— Chris Christie

#absolutely #any #believe #called #come

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

#believe #built #christian ethic #end #ethic

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House. ↗

— George McGovern

#american #better #businesspeople #concerns #firsthand

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

#best #changed #dice #enough #expect

No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do. ↗

— Orrin Hatch

#comes #discuss #how #judges #judicial

It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#authority #bench #comes #congress #consent

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

— John Jay Hooker

#governor #i #nominee #political #side

Far be it from me to denigrate Senator McCain's advice on vice presidential nominees. ↗

— David Axelrod

#denigrate #far #mccain #me #nominees

I will support the Republican nominee. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#nominee #republican #support #will