“A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws.” LawCourtSupremeSupreme CourtAppointmentsNominationsRoving Author:John Cornyn
“Judge Samuel Alito, millions of Americans are concerned about your nomination. They're worried that you would be a judicial activist who would restrict our rights and freedoms.” Would BeMillionsRightsJudgingConcernedWorriedActivistJudicialNominationsRights And Freedoms Author:Dick Durbin
“It was all for the eventual payoff and thank-you by giving Hillary Clinton the Democrat Party presidential nomination. And it went awry in 2008 because somebody they liked better came along. Somebody they really liked better. I mean, somebody they loved better. They threw her overboard like an unwanted sack of potatoes down on the farm for Barack Hussein Obama. And she seethed, felt betrayed. Don't blame her a bit. They betrayed her big time.” GivingMeanBigsFeltBitsPartyBlameClintonDemocratBarackPresidentialFarmsBetrayedPotatoesHusseinNominationsUnwantedPayoffOverboard Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Hillary Clinton made history becoming the first woman to win a major party nomination for president. She's done so even as many Americans say they don't trust her. Her close friends and family say there's a disconnect between the Hillary Clinton that they know and the one the rest of American knows.” KnowsFirstsMadeDoneWinningPresidentPartyBecomingMajorsClintonFamily And FriendsDon't TrustClose FriendsNominations Author:Audie Cornish
“In your telephone call, you [Malcolm Turnbull]said that neither you nor the Cabinet would be supporting my nomination. When I asked the reasons for this, you said that neither you nor the Cabinet has the view that I had the qualifications for the position [of UN's secretary-general].” SaidReasonWould BeViewsPositionSecretaryTelephonesCabinetsQualificationsNominations Author:Kevin Rudd
“Bernie Sanders lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Hillary Clinton, but he won more than 12 million votes in the primaries and was respectfully and elaborately saluted by Hillary Clinton, whom he has endorsed.” LostMillionsVoteDemocraticClintonPrimariesPresidentialNominations Author:Scott Simon
“The nomination of John McCain is another milestone. So whether black, women, or bald, yes we can.” BlackBlack WomenMccainNominationsMilestoneYes We Can Author:Donna Brazile
“I think Hillary Clinton's nomination and I think Donald Trump's nomination, I think the media played decisive roles in both of them.” ThinkingRolesMediaTrumpClintonNominations Author:Ted Cruz
“What happened was that none of that [Emmy nomination] really happened. Numbers flew under the radar, and so around the fourth season, I got really jaded and I wanted to quit.” WantedNumbersHappenedSeasonsQuittingFourthFlewRadarNominationsJadedEmmys Author:David Krumholtz
“This past year, we received our second Emmy nomination for Outstanding Informational Series. While we'd all like to win, I can say with utmost sincerity that it mattered more to me that we got noticed than whether or not we win.” YearsI CanPastWinningSeriesSincerityOutstandingNominationsEmmys Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“To get an Emmy nomination for a show that was the first-ever science talk show on television to us was an affirmation that there is an appetite for this content in the mainstream public, not just the erudite public. So we're all completely thrilled by it.” FirstsShowsTelevisionAppetiteMainstreamAffirmationNominationsTalk ShowsEmmysErudite Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“There are no winners in this election [2016]. I paid attention to it for about two months and then it just started to depress me. At least Hillary's [Clinton] a politician, but the fact that you've got a guy from a reality TV show! I have to say, out of everything I've ever watched in sports - the greatest comebacks ever - watching [Donald Trump] get the nomination for the Republican Party is the most astounding thing I've ever seen.” TwoFactsShowsRealityGuySportsPartyAttentionTvsMonthsTrumpPoliticianRepublicanPaidElectionClintonWinnerDepressingTv ShowsRepublican PartyComebackTwo MonthsNominationsReality TvNo Winners Author:Bill Burr
“The Big Trump is a historic figure. The Big Trump beat 16 other people for the nomination. The Big Trump is creating issues that make the establishment very uncomfortable. The Little Trump frankly gets out - is stupid. I mean, that comment just then is dumb. And I don't defend him when he wanders off; I've told him over and over.” PeopleMeanLittlesBigsIssuesStupidFiguresTrumpCreatingBeatsWanderDumbUncomfortableCommentEstablishmentHistoricNominations Author:Newt Gingrich
“You know, presidents have to be disciplined, and in that sense Hillary Clinton is probably better trained to be president, just because she's the most corrupt person to ever get the nomination of a major party.” KnowsPersonsPresidentPartyMajorsClintonNominations Author:Newt Gingrich
“Here you have the Republican Party, and they had, what, 16, 15 candidates seek the Republican nomination? And Donald Trump won it. And they have been enraged actually since day one when Trump announced, and his statement did not result in a Trump implosion, and then future Trump statements and appearances did not result in a Trump implosion. But the candidates that the Republican Party...They thought they had the best presidential field ever, and they hated and resented Trump for that.” Has BeensResultsPartyFieldsTrumpRepublicanAppearanceStatementsHatedPresidentialCandidatesRepublican PartyNominations Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Back in March, before Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination for president, a group of national security heavyweights signed an open letter that called Trump fundamentally dishonest and utterly unfit for the presidency. Now, two days after Trump's victory, some in the national security establishment are wondering whether to return to the fold.” TwoPresidentWonderGroupsSecurityReturnTrumpVictoryRepublicanLettersMarchEstablishmentPresidencyNational SecurityFoldsTwo DaysSecuredNominationsHeavyweights Author:Ari Shapiro
“When Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions for federal district court judgeship, the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected his nomination.” CourtSenateRejectedCommitteesSessionNominationsJudiciary Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“He sits beside the ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy who voted against Jeff Session`s nomination in that committee in 1986.” DemocratCommitteesSessionNominationsRanking Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“Strom Thurmond, the former segregationist candidate for president was the Republican Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1986 and he tried to get Jeff Sessions` nomination through that committee, but he couldn`t.” PresidentRepublicanFormerCandidatesSenateCommitteesSessionChairmanNominationsJudiciary Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“Because Republicans defected and voted with all the Democrats to reject Jeff Sessions` nomination when they discovered that when he was working as a prosecutor in Alabama, he called the NAACP Un-American.” RepublicanDemocratRejectsSessionNominationsAlabamaProsecutorNaacp Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“I am saying there are women in the Senate, there are women in governorships, there are women in statewide office, there are women in the House, and I do think we can't ignore the fact that we have had the first woman ever win a nomination of a major party and the first woman ever winning the popular vote. So I think the table is set for a woman in the near future. I really do.” ThinkingFirstsFactsHouseWinningPartyOfficeMajorsVoteTablesSenateNominationsPopular Vote Author:Barbara Boxer
“It's pretty clear that Hillary Clinton was a deeply, deeply flawed alternative. She had the wrong combination of the internal political chops to muscle out all the mainstream nominations from the field, leaving only Bernie Sanders, who was unacceptable to the Democrats' party establishment. But she also had a real lack of political skill that would enable her to win the general election.” RealPoliticalWinningPartyClearFieldsSkillsElectionClintonDemocratLeavingAlternativesCombinationMusclesInternalsEstablishmentMainstreamFlawedNominationsGeneral Elections Author:Jonathan Chait
“Ten years ago if you would have told me that Mrs. Clinton would be the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, I'd have never believed you. Her only qualifications for office are that she's Mr. Clinton's partner. And what does that mean? The two of them stand for dishonesty and corruption.” IfsYearsMeanDoeTwoWould BeTenOfficeYears AgoDemocraticClintonCorruptionPartnersDishonestyQualificationsNominations Author:Jackie Mason
“I was aware that my nomination was drawing a lot of attention, particularly in the Latino world, not just in Puerto Rico. It was touching.” WorldAttentionDrawingTouchingLatinoNominationsPuerto RicoRico Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“I am eternally grateful to all of the Latino groups outside of the Puerto Rican community, but including the Puerto-Rican community, who came to support me during the process [of nomination].” ProcessCommunitySupportGroupsGratefulIncludingLatinoNominationsSupport Me Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“There had been questions raised about whether we could ever really unite to work together on an issue, whether we could do it with equal passion and fervor. And it happened during my nomination and I think I forever will be grateful for that love, for that support and for proving those naysayers wrong.” ThinkingTogetherPassionSupportForeverIssuesHappenedProveEqualGratefulRaisedWorking TogetherBe GratefulNominationsFervorNaysayers Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“For my daughter, it's going to mean something special that Hillary Clinton accepts the nomination, and I wanted to make sure that she sees that.” MeanWantedAcceptingSpecialDaughterClintonMy DaughterSomething SpecialNominations Author:Julian Castro
“[Walt Shaub] is cleared more than 50 percent of the nominations, Republican nominations that have been provided to him so far, versus 20 percent at this point in the [Barack] Obama transition which I worked on.” Has BeensRepublicanPercentBarackTransitionVersusNominationsWalt Author:Reince Priebus
“Senator Sessions has opposed protections for LGBT individuals. He's spoken out against Freedom Corps' marriage equality decision. He opposed the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. He opposed the nomination of Loretta Lynch, the nation's first African-American woman to serve as attorney general. These things worry me.” FirstsAsksIndividualNationsDecisionWorryProtectionAfrican AmericanLgbtSenatorsSessionAttorneyNominationsAmerican WomanAfrican American WomenMarriage Equality Author:Patrick Leahy
“When I ran, I didn't have any money. Now, it requires raising hundreds of millions of dollars just to get the nomination, and I don't care to be involved in that process.” CareProcessMillionsInvolvedDollarsDon't CareI Don't CareRanNominations Author:Jimmy Carter
“Now that Mr. Trump is the President-elect: If he chooses, he can, by executive order, repeal most of what President Barack Obama brought into existence, including the thawing of the relationship between the United States and the people of Cuba. And because there is a Republican Senate, a Republican House of Representatives, a Republican president, it is more than likely that his legislative program will be accepted; his nominations to the Supreme Court may very well be accepted.” PeopleIfsWellsMayStatesOrderHousePresidentUnitedExistenceUnited StatesTrumpRepublicanProgramCourtIncludingAcceptedSupremeBarackExecutivesSenateRepresentativesSupreme CourtCubaPresident Barack ObamaNominationsHouse Of RepresentativesExecutive OrdersThawing Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I do not consider myself opposed to any of these Republicans, because any of these people if they were gonna get the nomination are gonna get my vote over Hillary Clinton. I am not in any way, shape, manner, or form trying to damage any of them.” PeopleIfsWayTryingFormRepublicanShapesVoteClintonDamageNominations Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When the civil rights community raised a lot of concerns around the nomination of Mr. Sessions, Senator Sessions, one of the things was that he`s on record of saying things intrusive, like voting rights,that he doesn`t believe the federal government should interfere with local policing, almost like states` rights kind of rhetoric.” ShouldBelieveKindStatesGovernmentCommunityRecordsRightsConcernRaisedLocalsCivil RightsVotingRhetoricInterfereSenatorsFederal GovernmentSessionRight To VoteNominationsStates Rights Author:Al Sharpton
“The Supreme Court nominations [example]. I mean, the fact that Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republicans, was able to just stop a nomination almost a year before the next election and really not pay a political price for it, that's a sign that the incentives for politicians in this town to be so sharply partisan have gotten so outta hand that we're weakening ourselves.” YearsMeanFactsHandsAblePoliticalNextPayLeaderExamplePoliticianRepublicanTownsElectionCourtSupremeSupreme CourtIncentivesPartisansNominationsWeakening Author:Barack Obama
“The people that voted for Donald Trump, the vast majority of them really thought that if Hillary Clinton won this election, that was it, that was America, say good-bye to it. She would have had the Supreme Court nominations for all the people retiring and a bunch of the left would have retired, and who knows who else. It would have been the ongoing opening up the country to outsiders and expanding the government to take care of outsiders, who are called immigrants.” PeopleIfsKnowsHas BeensCountryGovernmentCareAmericaLeftTrumpElectionMajorityCourtClintonTake CareSupremeBunchOpeningImmigrantsRetiringOutsidersSupreme CourtExpandingRetiredOngoingByeGood ByeNominationsOpening UpSaying Good Bye Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Most of Trump's support is not the conservative base. It's all over the spectrum. He's got support from women, Hispanics, blue-collar Democrats, the old Reagan Democrats. The demographic support that Trump has is what the Republican Party claims it wants. Meanwhile, the Republican Party is running around saying they want to win the nomination without the conservative base, without the pro-lifers, without the social issues crowd. Well, that's Trump.” WantWellsRunningWinningSocialPartySupportIssuesTrumpRepublicanClaimsBlueDemocratConservativeCrowdsWant MeRepublican PartySocial IssuesSpectrumCollarsDemographicsNominationsBlue Collar Author:Rush Limbaugh
“[Donald] Trump wanted the nomination, and all these other Republicans and their supporters didn't want Trump to have the nomination. So who became the villains? What Trump wanted became the story. "Will he get it? Will Trump get to 1,237?" Did not Ted Cruz become a villain in the middle of this by virtue of trying to stop the hero by getting delegates in all of the state conventions?” WantTryingStatesStoriesWantedVirtueMiddleTrumpHeroRepublicanVillainConventionsSupporterNominationsCruzDelegates Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Most actors don't understand acting. I think it's an art form that craft is out the window. I don't think people get it at all, most of the time. Or they get some of it, not all of it. If you get an Academy Award nomination, you think 95 percent of the profession is unemployed at any given time, most people will never even find work as an actor, and the ones who do will probably make $50,000 a year at the most if they're lucky. Some will never do Broadway. Some will never do a major role. And a really, really, really small percentage of them maybe will be nominated for a major award.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsArtFormActorsGivenActingRolesLuckyMajorsPercentWindowProfessionCraftsAwardsBroadwayPercentagesAcademyUnemployedNominationsAcademy Awards Author:Viola Davis
“Shortly after her nomination was announced,[Betsy] DeVos tweeted, almost as if she had forgotten something important to say. And she said, I am not a supporter of the Common Core. Sandy Kress predicts that debate will die down soon enough.” IfsSaidImportantEnoughDiesCommonForgottenDebateCoreSupporterNominationsSandySoon EnoughCommon Core Author:Claudio Sanchez
“As somebody who didn't support [Donald] Trump but works in the LGBTQ space, it was unprecedented that Donald Trump stood on that stage and accepted the Republican nomination and then said he would fight for LGBTQ people.” PeopleSaidFightingSpaceSupportStageTrumpRepublicanAcceptedUnprecedentedNominations Author:Margaret Hoover
“Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.” ImportantHelpingLevelsRaisesCuriosityAwardsNominations Author:Viggo Mortensen
“Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.” EndsBigsCultureStuffPoorBreakRepublicanTaxesFolksOilDefinedPresidentialWelfareExecutivesShelterStampsRomneyDependencyNominationsTax BreaksFood StampsBig OilFree Stuff Author:Christine Pelosi
“Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.” StatesAmericaPresidentUnitedResponsibilityAcceptingUnited StatesGreaterHumilityHonorMovedUnited States Of AmericaChairmanNominationsDelegates Author:Mitt Romney
“When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you've had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you're pretty polished.” MadeBigsWinningPartyMistakePracticeFiguresCampaignsDebatePolishedNominationsYou Re Pretty Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.” OscarsNominations Author:Jeff Bridges
“I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.” WritingTwoShowsWrittenCategoriesNominationsEmmys Author:Rita Mae Brown
“African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it's just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple.” PeopleHas BeensRunningRomanceSimpleViewsRepublicanPureConservativePoint Of ViewAfrican AmericanConsideringOpen MindedNominationsBrainwashingBrainwashedBeing Open Minded Author:Herman Cain
“I honestly believe that there's an element in this country in our politics that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican Party and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.” WantBelieveDoeCountryStatesAmericaPresidentUnitedPartyUnited StatesBecomingRepublicanSucceedElementsHonestlyWant MeUnited States Of AmericaBusinessmanRepublican PartyNominationsBecoming President Author:Herman Cain
“I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.” FeelsKindGivenHeroLettersNominations Author:Albert Einstein
“Just take our name off the list. . . . The nomination is meaningless, because it's not voted on by the fans . . . .” PeopleNamesFansListsFakeMeaninglessFake PeopleNominations Author:Ozzy Osbourne