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It's highly unlikely she can succeed. Katherine Harris being our sole nominee is not in the party's best interest.

Al Cárdenas

I like the mayor, but it doesn't mean I'll endorse his candidacy, ... fine Democratic nominee.

David N. Dinkins

I don't think you'll have to worry that this mental midget, this hillbilly Hitler from Alabama, is anywhere near becoming the nominee of the Democratic Party.

Julian Bond

The President can believe in his heart of hearts that he is picking a conservative nominee, and he can be surprised.

Tom Goldstein

I am truly honored to have even been considered as a nominee for such a distinction, much less actually selected.

Joe Cannon

The debate over the next nominee will do far more to form the battle lines for the '06 midterm elections than anything involving the Congressional leadership.

Bob Stevenson

It's the 900-pound gorilla that's weightless. It's an empty symbol. It's almost as if the nominee is a hologram.

Dennis Hutchinson

We moved the president's agenda and have a Supreme Court nominee whom people are happy with.

Mike Dewine

It is still not clear who the DFL nominee will be.

Troy Young

Democrats are less prone historically to turn to a defeated nominee again.

Neal Thigpen

He's incredible and he's Hispanic, ... and I think the Democrats saw that and thought, 'The reason he's being nominated for a lower court is he's the next Supreme Court nominee, so let's block him now.' .

Jay Jorgensen

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Jane Horrocks

I have too many unanswered questions about the nominee to justify a vote confirming him to this enormously important lifetime position.

Harry Reid

There is a deep consensus between Gore and Bush, ... When you look at the last 10 years, there's not much you can think that would be different if George Bush (the former president and father of the current GOP nominee) had won and Bill Clinton had lost.

George Friedman

Our approach is that it's traditional for the nominee to be out there carrying the message and have other folks turning out the base and raising the money.

Douglas Hattaway

I have a feeling she might cry. She was pretty excited when I told her I was a nominee.

Rachel Williams

I have reluctantly concluded that this nominee has not satisfied the high burden that would justify my voting for his confirmation based on the current record.

Nevada Democrat

I'm really disappointed that Senator Wyden chose not to support this highly qualified nominee.

Jim Westwood

We won this election for the President, and we deserve to have the next Supreme Court nominee, we deserve to be heard, we deserve to have our policies implemented.

Christine Todd Whitman

Debating is something candidates are expected to do. If the debates are lively and cantankerous, it advances the cause of the public being able to make a choice for the Republican nominee.

Bob Loevy

I'm hopeful through the debate on this nominee, and the next Supreme Court nomination, we can avoid the destructive partisanship that approached the brink of absolutism in ideology.

Pat Robertson

A nominee more extreme than Judge Roberts would be unacceptable to the Democratic caucus, ... You could expect a major fight on the Senate floor.

Jim Manley

Right now you could flip a 12-sided coin and come up with the nominee.

Craig Shirley

I think we should write a platform that allows the nominee to argue his position.

James Bopp

Our Democratic nominee will only be mentioned in the press stories when the Republicans are attacking that nominee.

Kathy Sullivan

[Reacting to those comments by the Democratic presidential nominee, Cheney characterized them as an] attack ... the man American must stand beside to defeat the terrorists.

Ayad Allawi

John Faso, the Albany lobbyist, will need all the help he can get. At the end of the day Randy Daniels will be the nominee of the Conservative Party.

Robert Ryan

It would give an advantage in the election if a nominee is appointed in the interim. It would be appropriate to have the appointment only if it's not the nominee of one of the parties.

Russell Verney

The front-loading process will hurt the Democratic nominee, ... We will have a nominee in middle to late January, while Republicans are dominating airwaves for weeks or months after that.

Kathy Sullivan

My suspicion is that the next nominee will not be someone from the staff.

Fred Mcclure

At a time when these controversial issues need a leader who can find common ground, the president could not have chosen a more divisive nominee.

Philip Clapp

The biggest problem is that the Democrats will not go along. They will keep their current primary calendar, which means their nominee will emerge in March, while the Republicans continue to fight until May or June.

Charlie Black

We believe that the Senate should carefully review this appointment to ensure that this nominee will be the kind of watchdog on behalf of American coal miners that they need.

Phil Smith

A committed conservative with interpersonal skills equal to or superior to Rehnquist's would be a far more effective chief justice than a nominee of equal intellect who lacks those graces.

David J. Garrow

I just think he'll be an extremely strong candidate against a Republican nominee in eastern Iowa here, ... Pro-life candidates in this area appeal to a lot of Democrats here.

Mike Connolly

Instead of focusing on electing a president in 2008, this commission appears to be heading down a precipitous path. If you have all theses caucuses front-loaded, Democrats will end up with a nominee by the middle of January.

Kathleen Sullivan

The Democrats are in a very strong position. They have their nominee, and he's clearly a moderate.

Bob Loevy

We have said consistently that we do not believe there will be a primary because Ed Cox will be the candidate. We have stated clearly that we will support the nominee of the party, not the designated nominee.

Thomas Basile

We need to be careful here. This is a nominee who could shift the balance of the court, and thus the laws of the nation, for decades to come.

Charles E. Schumer

In the absence of any opposition to this candidate, the senator believed the president deserved his nominee.

Leslie Phillips

We have no way of knowing if someone is a nominee officer or a regular officer.

Scott Anderson

You know what the answer is. It's the same as Ginsburg said, it's the same as Breyer said, it's the same as Roberts said. It's just not appropriate to ask a nominee how they're going to vote on a particular matter.

Daniel R. Coats

The philosophies and positions and principles of the nominee are not just conservative, they are ultra-conservative.

Bruce S. Gordon

If a nominee has been very active in either organization, it raises some red flags. If you have that membership and a record of activism, that compounds the felony.

Sheldon Goldman

If their constituents think ideology is a good reason to vote against a nominee, ... they're going to vote against him.

Lee Epstein

After the Democratic nominee is all but certain in the late winter/early spring, it would not be surprising for us to fall behind for a bit.

Matthew Dowd

Roberts is going to be hard to oppose, on a principled basis. The next nominee is going to make someone unhappy.

Marci Hamilton

He's our nominee. I don't know about (his chances of winning) the White House.

Rusty Depass

John Kerry will be the Democratic nominee for president. Democrats finally found someone who is Al Gore without the flash and the sizzle.

Craig Kilborn

We'll support whoever the Republican nominee is, but we expect to be that nominee.

Edward Cox