Delegates Quotes - Page 3

• In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.

  Frederick Reines

  Atoms, Conferences, Geneva

  Frederick Reines, William R. Kropp, M. Moe, L. Price (1991). “Neutrinos and Other Matters: Selected Works of Frederick Reines”, p.15, World Scientific

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• As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

  Jessica Jackley

  Night, Focus, Entrepreneur

  "PREGNANT FOUNDER'S RESPONSE TO VC: "I've Never Heard Someone Say 'An Expectant Father/CEO Will Fail'" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. April 20, 2011.

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• I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.

  James Altucher

  Entrepreneur, Trying, Would Be

  "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre People" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2012.

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• It was primary election, but [Donald] Trump hasn't spent a lot of money. Not compared to - I mean, Jeb Bush had a $115 million super PAC, and he has six delegates. It's not a dream, but it's something I do think about.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dream, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It's very much in our interest to unite [with Bernie Sanders] as quickly as possible to begin the campaign against Donald Trump. And I think the facts really speak for themselves. I have a won a big majority of the popular vote of the states, of pledged delegates, and we want to go forward in a positive and unified way.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Popular Vote, Campaigns

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• There were always jokes about Hillary Clinton channeling Eleanor Roosevelt, but Eleanor Roosevelt was really instrumental at the UN, and would want to meet with various other delegates.

  Madeleine Albright

  Want, Clinton, Eleanor

  "American Word Interview with Madeleine Albright". Interview with Maeve Allsup, www.amwordmag.com. October 20, 2015.

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• Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we just delegate to politicians or technologists.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, Artist, People

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• As I traveled around the country, I met hundreds if not thousands of people who want to change the country. And you've got, now, 1,900 Bernie delegates who are now going back to their communities in 50 states.

  Jonathan Tasini

  Country, People, Community

  "A Look At Where Bernie Sanders' Movement Goes From Here". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 30, 2016.

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• I spent a lifetime giving my power away, assuming that everybody knew better what was right for me than me. And then there comes a point in your life you go, Oh, wait a second! There's an a-ha moment when you realize that the only person that can delegate your future is you.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Giving, Waiting, Assuming

  "Mariel Hemingway and Bobby Williams". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You never know. It started with me in Louisiana when I won Louisiana and I got fewer delegates than Ted Cruz. I win a state, I get fewer votes. Then, I poll great in Colorado and all of a sudden . . . the voters aren't going to choose. The bosses are going to choose. Anything is possible.

  Donald Trump

  Winning, Boss, Colorado

  "Donald Trump transcript: The Republican nominee in his own words". www.washingtonpost.com. August 2, 2016.

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• Based on the number that they found, The New York Times reported that Hillary [Clinton] had basically clinched the primary 'cause you added the superdelegates to the number of delegates you'd already gotten. But this was on the eve of the California and New Jersey primary.

  Terry Gross

  New York, California, Numbers

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There are so many candidates, so it's very hard to get over that number. It's very unfair, in a we are - but because of the fact that there's so many candidates and so many candidates are grabbing delegates.

  Donald Trump

  Numbers, Facts, Unfair

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Everybody was cratered after Copenhagen. If the movie had worked the way that it should have, if it had been scripted by Holywood, the world would have come together and addressed the biggest problem it ever had faced and delegates would have embraced each other, and it all would have been a good happy scene instead of the complete farce and debacle that it turned into - maybe in certain ways, an absolute low point for human diplomacy.

  Bill McKibben

  Should Have, Together, World

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• It would probably be a direct order, shape up your morale. And so he understands command. He understands how to delegate. And I think that [General John Kelly] will bring law and order.

  Steve King

  Thinking, Order, Law

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I am pretty good at arithmetic, and I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight. But we will continue to fight for every vote and every delegate we can get.

  Jeff Merkley

  Fighting, Vote, Arithmetic

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Well, we had a bunch of primaries and caucuses on the Democratic side. Bernie Sanders won the Nebraska and Kansas caucuses. That keeps his campaign alive. But Hillary Clinton won Louisiana, which was the big prize of the night, so she ended up winning more delegates than he did yesterday.

  Mara Liasson

  Winning, Night, Kansas

  "Rounding Up The Week In Politics". www-s4.npr.org. March 6, 2016.

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• Satan delegates high-ranking members of the hierarchy of evil spirits to control nations, regions, cities, tribes, people groups, neighborhoods and other significant social networks of human beings throughout the world. Their major assignment is to prevent God from being glorified in their territory, which they do through directing the activity of lower-ranking demons.

  C. Wagner

  Cities, Evil, People

  C. Peter Wagner (2012). “Supernatural Forces in Spiritual Warfare: Wrestling with Dark Angels”, p.43, Destiny Image Publishers

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• In America, we will use force whenever we like against anyone we regard as a potential threat, and maybe we will delegate that right to clients, but it's not for others.

  Noam Chomsky

  America, Use, Clients

  Source: progressive.org

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• A rigged convention is one with the other man's delegates in control. An open convention is when your delegates are in control.

  James Farley

  Men, Conventions, Rigged

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• I say, "This is my objective" and when I stick to it, I succeed. When I deviate, I'm in trouble. Do what you do best and delegate the rest. There are things I do better than others, and there are things I'm horrible at and I delegate those.

  Michael Franzese

  Succeed, Sticks, Trouble

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• At Microsoft I had many years of experience and history and seeing connections. With my direct reports, the job at Microsoft was to delegate and then be able to properly review, but not to micromanage. To have a way of connecting and integrating without getting in the way.

  Steve Ballmer

  Jobs, Years, Able

  "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• I mean, in the campaign of '24 and in '28 and '32, you know, Eleanor Roosevelt insists that women have equal floor space. And this is a great victory over time. Then she wants women represented in equal numbers as men. And she wants the women to name the delegates. And the men want to name the delegates. Well, Eleanor is absolutely furious. And because they don't want her to walk away in 1924, she wins. And this is a great political victory. She has floor space equal to the men, and she has the right to name the women.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Mean, Winning, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When he [Franklin Roosevelt] ultimately does not get the Republican Party nomination and decides to start his new Bull Moose Party, he does, for the first time, let black delegates be part of the party from elsewhere in the country.

  Geoffrey Cowan

  Country, Party, Black

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Donald Trump has more delegates than anybody. He won all 50 delegates in South Carolina. He`s got a strong lead.

  Katy Tur

  Strong, South Carolina, Trump

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think Super Tuesday is the most important day of this entire primary election. It is the most delegates awarded in a single night will be awarded on Super Tuesday.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, Night, Tuesday

  "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 28, 2016.

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