Republican Presidential Nomination

Famous quotes containing the words republican, presidential and/or nomination:

    “No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “The Republican Vice Presidential Candidate ... asks you to place him a heartbeat from the Presidency.”
    —Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)

    “In ancient times—’twas no great loss—
    They hung the thief upon the cross:
    But now, alas!—I say’t with grief—
    They hang the cross upon the thief.”
    —Anonymous. “On a Nomination to the Legion of Honour,” from Aubrey Stewart’s English Epigrams and Epitaphs (1897)