Eligibility Quotes

If you want to be President, you'll have to remain poor.

I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year.

When I turn 55, I'm going to be on Medicare. I can call up and tell them I don't want to be on Medicare, but otherwise, I'll be on Medicare. So they use this kind of automatic enrollment. We give states the option of automatically enrolling those who are eligible.

I have the right credentials to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha.

I don't want there to be millions of people that are permanently barred from every becoming Americans.

You have to retire before you can make the Hall of Fame.

Anyone can run for office. When I ran for Governor of Minnesota, the only requirement was that you had to be a state resident. I believe you had to be over thirty five years old, something like that. That's the way our country was founded. That anyone can run for office. That you're not required to be a lawyer, you're not required to be anything.

Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.

If you're feeling pressure, then you shouldn't be here.

Either one is French and can vote, or one is not French and cannot vote.

Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve it and some do not - that the status shouldn't be handed out automatically. Frankly, that's a premise worth considering.

There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.

Boys in their twenties are a waste of time. They have nothing to offer conversationally; they're immature. I feel like I have a better shot with someone in his thirties.

Being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be president.

You have to be educated to vote.

I was up for 'Harry Potter' way, way back. But I don't quite fit the bill, I think.

If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.

I'm English. I've never said the opposite. I'm 100 per cent English. In Portugal it happens that a lot of Brazilians play for Portugal and they're not Portuguese.

The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may be a candidate.

The government should have the burden of proving the individual’s work ineligibilty rather than the individual having the burden of proving his eligibility to work.

Believe in: the inalienable right of self-preservation of the people against the exercise of arbitrary and unlicensed power, the restitution of the Southern people to all their rights, the reenfranchisement and emancipation of the white men of the South, maintaining the constitutional rights of the South, favoring of a white man's government, opposing Negro equality both social and political. May not be: a Republican, a Union Army veteran, or a member of the Loyal League

We need to ensure that everyone's got a path to getting a license, so they've got identification.

I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British, and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan.

What I appreciate about WP is that they have very clear processes for candidacy and membership. There is no fast track or parachuting.

You have to be eligible for luck to strike, and I think that's a matter of education and preparation, and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.