#selected

I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#confirmed #control #democratic #effort #electoral

We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#electing #francisco #grew #i #judges

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#back #called #cancelled #ended #got

I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate. ↗

— Harold Ford

#bump #came #convention #country #democratic

I love this company. I don't know how it was selected. It's a bunch of machers. They mean business. ↗

— Jeffrey Tambor

#business #company #how #i #i love

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines. ↗

— Alec Baldwin

#bush #elected #five #judges #lines

But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#once #person #point #selected

I am honored to be selected as the 2012 Miss Golden Globe. It's very exciting to be a part of an awards show like the Golden Globes so early on in my career. ↗

— Rainey Qualley

#awards #career #early #exciting #globe

But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#become #began #better #bit #candidates

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#altruism #because #been #confer #continuing