Commanders Quote by John Yoo

If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier.

— Will Rogers

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

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

“good convention, with the military class and the”

— James D. Best

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

I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this…

— Susan Estrich

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

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

A convention always involves a level of security. It is always our intent to ensure everyone attending the convention is safe. When it comes…

— Leah D. Daughtry

I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.

— Quentin Crisp

Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage…

— Steven Pinker