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With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind. -- Theodore White
I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating. -- Boss Tweed
In nominating young women and men to our service academies, it must only be about who you are, not who you know. -- Ron Barber
From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business. -- Michael Beschloss
By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics. -- Ron Fournier
I am sometimes accused of being a dictator because I provoked the extraordinary elections by nominating the interim government. Can you imagine any dictator who provokes free elections in his own country? -- Milos Zeman
My first choice had always been my father. He's still my first pick. Now that the nominating process is over, tonight, I'm happy to announce that I'm going to be supporting Governor Romney. -- Rand Paul
People find it hard to get their heads around nominating a computer-generated character, but every time you see Gollum on the screen, that's me who is acting up there - even if it is behind a mass of pixels - and it's my voice you hear. -- Andy Serkis
The no-secrets era of social media makes one consider the built-in risk factor of nominating high-testosterone men to positions of power at all. Everyone is under too much scrutiny now to take a chance on candidates who suddenly blow up into a comic meme, a punchline, a ribald hashtag. -- Tina Brown
I don't care who does the electing, as long as I get to do the nominating. -- Boss Tweed
I`m 100 percent impartial. I`m - my responsibility is to manage this primary nominating contest neutrally and fairly. -- Hillary Clinton
Ford O'Connell, the guy in the sound bite we just played, he's the guy who said that nominating a conservative presidential candidate would just postpone the GOP nightmare. -- Rush Limbaugh
I am fully aware of the fact that the Democratic Party, by nominating someone of my faith, has taken on what many regard as a new and hazardous risk. -- John F. Kennedy
I joked at our National Convention that our party was nominating a candidate for president who was charismatic, larger than life, memorable, so they wanted to balance the ticket. -- Mike Pence
The G.O.P. is desperately seeking someone who can save the party from the fate of nominating Mitt Romney. But every time a non-Mitt throws his hat in the ring, the hat explodes. -- Gail Collins
But this convention is about more than re-nominating President Obama. It's about Americans coming together to build one economy - not from the top down, but from the middle class out and the bottom up. -- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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