Decided Quote by Gore Vidal

I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.

— James Brown

I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.

— Boss Tweed

I don't care who does the electing, as long as I get to do the nominating.

— Boss Tweed

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

— Lee Zeldin

I think that the person who is going to be nominated will be nominated by the convention.

— Marco Rubio

What I really want is to create a name based on my own accomplishments.

— Barbi Benton

Choosing a name is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

— Pipilotti Rist

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

— Ambrose Bierce

I've always been aware that to be named after someone from the past carries with it all kinds of bittersweetness.

— Morris Gleitzman

It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of character. Me,…

— Susanna Clarke

I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.

— William Tecumseh Sherman

There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people…

— Thomas Jefferson