Top 267 Nominee Quotes & Sayings

Anything is possible for women, including being a presidential nominee.

I've been really clear about this. If you want to be president, you should run for president. We should select our nominee from among the people who are running for president. Clear and simple. So no, I am not going to be the president. I am not going to be the nominee.

What's confusing about that, though, is you [Marco Rubio] say if he [Donald Trump] were the nominee, it would destroy the conservative movement. You're painting scary pictures of him being the nominee. But then you're saying he will never be the nominee. You have signed onto the hashtag #neverTrump.I guess what people wonder is, you say all these terrible things about him, but then why might you not, like Chris Christie, who said bad things about him, just turn around and endorse him once - once he gets the nomination?

I'm not a Trump fan. I don't think he should be the nominee.

You may have heard that Donald Trum has long refused to release his tax returns, the way every other nominee for president has done for decades. You can look at 40 years of my tax returns. I think we need a law that says, if you become the nominee of the major parties, you have to release your tax returns.

Originally, the main purpose of the convention was to determine who the party would have as the presidential nominee and the vice-presidential nominee.

Anybody who doesn't support the Republican nominee... is a RINO.

In 1987, I had my first opportunity to provide 'advice and consent' on a Supreme Court nominee. At that time, I stated that the qualifications essential for evaluating a nominee for the bench included 'integrity, character, legal competence and ability, experience, and philosophy and judicial temperament.' On that test, Elena Kagan fails.

I am the first to admit that were I not a woman, I would not have been the vice-presidential nominee.

It's always an uphill battle to defeat a Supreme Court nominee, but this is a fight worth having.

I'll leave it to others to try to determine whether or not that was unfair or not. I'm not the nominee.

Let me just say the rules are what they are in the Republican Party. You have to have X-number of delegates in order to be the nominee. And if you don't have those number of delegates, then there's a process in place.Here is what would be a calamity, for Donald Trump to become our nominee.

Barack Obama's class warfare will not work on this Republican nominee. Not in Utah.

We have never had a president of the United States or a nominee of a major party who was a Supreme Court law clerk.

A nominee [to Supreme Court] must possess the competence, character and temperament to serve on the bench.

What I can tell you is I'm not running for president. I'm not going to run for president. I'm going to support one of these four people to be our nominee. I'm supporting three of them right now. And that means that we're going to get one of those people as our nominee.

President Obama is now losing to 'Republican Nominee' in polls - no name needed.

I move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States.

Thanks to you, we've reached a milestone. The first time in our nation's history that a woman will be a major party's nominee.

I think if you're at home and you don't want Donald Trump to be the Republican nominee, then the only candidate who can beat Donald is our campaign. And so I would encourage, even if you like another candidate, stand with us if you don't want Donald to be the nominee.

I don't think Donald Trump is going to be our nominee.

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

I'm going to be the nominee. It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee.

We will be in this race as long as it takes. We're going to be in as many states as it takes to ensure that I'm the nominee and that Donald Trump never gets to 1,236 delegates, which is what he needs to be the nominee.

We've always said a filibuster is not appropriate for judicial nominees. A filibuster is a legislative tool designed to extract compromises. A judicial nominee is a person. You can't take the arm or leg of a nominee.

I think we're going to have a nominee, whoever it is, and we'll have support for the nominee.

There is no doubt in my view that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee.

It's logical and fair to allow only registered or self-identified Democrats to choose their party's nominee (although numerous states do have open primaries). Letting more non-Democrats choose the nominee doesn't guarantee success in a November general election. And it does nothing to encourage people to join and work for the party.

Winning Democratic primaries is not a qualification or a sign of who can win the general election. If it were, every nominee would win because every nominee wins Democratic primaries.

From the economy to national security to government ethics, the Republican nominee promised once-in-a-lifetime change if he is elected Nov. 8.

Marco [Rubio] made reference earlier to the litigation against Trump University. It's fraud case. I want you think about if this man is the nominee, having the Republican nominee on the stand in court being cross examined about whether he committed fraud. You don't think the mainstream media will go crazy on that?

If I'm the nominee, I will pledge I will not run as an independent. I want to win as the Republican. I want to run as the Republican nominee.

She could have a Grammy I'd still treat her ass like a nominee.

If I am the nominee I will not run as an independent.

In terms of my own plans, I anticipate supporting one of the three, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio or John Kasich as our nominee. If they don't become the nominee, then I'm probably going to go to the voting booth and find someone else who's running as a conservative or perhaps just write in the name of someone I believe should become the president of the United States, who I could be proud of and who I believe is interested in balancing the budget, keeping America safe with a strong military, and is not willing to disparage fellow Americans, Mexican-Americans, Muslims, and so forth.

There is no reason why the right Democratic nominee can't win Ohio. President Obama did it twice in 2008 and 2012.

I know what the Giller nominee effect is, but we'll see what the next level is.

A lot of factors go into choosing a vice-presidential nominee.

I am going to certainly endorse the Republican nominee, and obviously it looks like that will be Mr. Trump.

I think we should have the majority of the party's voters decide who they want as their nominee.

I think toward the end of my run as an Emmy nominee, I started to dress better. At the beginning I was overdressed and uncomfortable.

When you see all that rhetorical smoke billowing up from the Democrats, well ladies and gentleman, I'd follow the example of their nominee; don't inhale.

The good thing about having a Republican primary is that the voters will decide our nominee - unlike the Democrats.

If I'm not the Democratic nominee, I'm gonna get out there and work for whoever the Democratic nominee is, because I believe they will be better than the alternative.

I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.

When a nominee doesn't get 60 votes, you shouldn't change the rules, you should change the nominee.

I'll support Donald [Trump] if he's the Republican nominee.

I will never be able to endorse a nominee for president whose name is not known.

I want to help the 2016 Republican presidential nominee, whoever that is, get our country back on track.

And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The Constitution doesn't say that. The Constitution doesn't say that that nominee shall have any vote at all. There doesn't have to even be a vote.

Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power.

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

Any nominee is going to have to earn my support.

I will support the Republican nominee.

You have to listen to people that have chosen the nominee of our Republican Party. I think it would be foolish to ignore them.

Traditionally, you support your nominee for president, and so when I went to Cleveland, I gave a strong speech about Hillary Clinton and her devastating foreign policy, but also in the support of the nominee. I think that's an obligation that we have to support the nominee.

If elected president I will have a litmus test in terms of my nominee to be a Supreme Court justice. And the nominee will say, we are going to overturn this disastrous decision on Citizens United because that decision is undermining American democracy. I do not believe that billionaires should be allowed to buy politicians.

Deciding whether to confirm a president's nominee for the highest court in the land is a responsibility I take very seriously.

Now, President Obama has to make a decision. He can either propose a nominee who can win over the majority in the Senate or defer his choice to the voters, who in November will elect a new President and a new Senate, which will be responsible for confirming a nominee who will provide balance to the Supreme Court.

America deserves a nominee who reveres the law, not one whose service on the bench is conditioned on political promises.