Conventions Quote by James Farley

Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after…

— Michael Beschloss

Conventions are, by nature, a party. I mean, that's why people become delegates. They come from all over the world to exercise their democratic…

— Rob Lowe

The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.

— Fletcher Knebel

Open nominations means it is local Liberals who choose who gets to be their representative. But what that doesn't mean is that somebody can…

— Justin Trudeau

A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting,…

— Norman Mailer

“Why was it sensible for Americans to transubstantiate a convention into the virtual embodiment of the People? After all, as with an ordinary legislative…

— Akhil Reed Amar

The initial attraction of a political convention was that often the outcome was not preordained. There was at least some element of surprise. But,…

— Mark McKinnon

[Political] conventions lend themselves to pandering, as few politicians can resist the temptation to tell a national television audience how well they will run…

— Ron Paul

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

— Tom Brokaw

President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.

— John Yoo

Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the…

— Don Hewitt

There's a better chance of a brokered convention than any time in our lifetime.

— Renee Montagne