Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonard Boswell

I've been very instrumental in pushing for the reform in our intelligence system, to have a national director where they've got clout over these 15 different agencies. We look back prior to 9/11 and there was some information out there that wasn't being shared just because the system is antiquated and wasn't working. We've got to fix that and we're in the process of doing it.

Christopher Dodd

We need to do something about antiquated voting machines, ballots that confuse rather than clarify, and overcrowded polling places.

Larry Moore

Our position is that Ms. Wade has not met her burden to show that there were improper ballots that were counted here.

Bryan Williams

If there's any question to the propriety of accounting, we always have the ballots so they can be examined. That's something that doesn't exist with the touch-screen voting.

Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets

Connie Higgins

Ballots are automatically mailed out if you're registered to vote.

Craig Keeney

This process actually gives the voters with returned ballots an opportunity to privately revise and then recast their ballot.

Suzy Young

Everything went really well. We had no problems with the machines. There were a few things I would like to do differently as far as organization goes when the ballots are brought in, but others said they thought it went smoothly.

Chris Fox

If they don't send their ballots in, it's a 'No' vote. So you run the risk of not having any representation at all.

Frances Johnson

Since there is only one race going on, counting will begin immediately, ... Generators and lanterns will provide light for the staff counting the ballots tonight.

Gero Neugebauer

That can't be the goal of any of the major parties. The people would likely punish them at the ballots for not being able to overcome their inner-party conflicts and finally form a government. They're sick of it.

Joseph Haydn

I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.

Grady Sizemore

I was confused for a second. I didn't know what was going on, ... If they were going to give me a choice, I was going to take the homer over the double.

Bobbie Williams

I was confused and all the material I read got me more confused. With all the things I got in the mail, it was hard to decide.

Leonard Hamilton

I don't even know why I'm sitting here in fifth place in the ACC having to defend anything. I'm really confused about that. Matter of fact, I think we need six or seven teams.

Robert Belcher

I don't know what was the wisdom in that decision. It confused the mess out of everybody.

Woodrow Wilson

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction

Sarah Ban Breathnach

A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls. When we nap, we are resting our eyes while our imaginations soar. Getting ready for the next round. Sorting, sifting, separating the profound from the profane, the possible from the improbable. Rehearsing our acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, our surprise on receiving the MacArthur genius award. This requires a prone position. If we're lucky, we might drift off, but we won't drift far. Just far enough to ransom our creativity from chaos.

Valerie June

I think it's funny how people get confused when they think about church music, because a lot of times there is a soloist who stands out, but my church wasn't like that at all.

Ugo Betti

When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.

Jim Cooper

Congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented.

Aidan Gillen

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Jason Alexander

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Ruzwana Bashir

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Alison Goldfrapp

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

Bill Bradley

In all honesty, I'd rather be speaking on Thursday night,

Peter Liguori

I know you get second-guessed in this business, but I'd rather be second-guessed for the right reasons.

Rita Clifton

It was one idea which was rather relentlessly executed,

Kevin Spacey

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.

Jacob Zuma

Something has gone wrong with Ronnie... He wasn't like that before. I don't know what went wrong with him.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

Paul Weyrich

They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. . . . As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

Paul Wolfowitz

I wish there were somebody I could be comfortable voting for. I might have to vote for Hillary Clinton, even though I have big reservations about her.

Joss Stone

The recession is everywhere. We need to be heard. Wouldn't it be great if there could be more referendums so we could have regular voting on specific points?

Kendrick Lamar

I don't vote. I don't do no voting.

James Madison

There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.

Bob Barr

Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.

Peter Rodman

don't go to the latrine without voting in parliament. This is not helpful.