Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets

Connie Higgins

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

Kenneth Blackwell

The president wouldn't have carried Ohio if the issue (to ban same-sex marriage) hadn't been on the ballot driving out the base, ... not going to evaporate, they're not going to retreat, and they will be a real and influential and sustainable force.

Richard Berman

Now that the secret ballot is off the table, abuses that come from the peer-to-peer intimidation to sign cards are in play.

Carl Guardino

If the conditions are right to mount a campaign for a quarter-cent transportation sale tax ballot measure in November 2006, we will need the leadership and guidance of thoughtful elected officials such as yourself. We hope you will join us in this effort.

Safwat Rashid

Some of the complaints are minor and others may be grave enough to cancel the results of a ballot box.

Stephen Johnston

We just want to put it on the ballot so people can have a choice.

Eliseo Medina

If Congress fails to act, we will deliver our message in the ballot boxes come November. We will continue to march and speak out until the President signs a comprehensive immigration bill into law that works for all working people in this country.

Larry Moore

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

Rod Nilsestuen

As electricity prices continue to rise in Wisconsin and the costs of renewable energy systems continue to fall, a growing number of the state's large farms are implementing anaerobic digestion to reduce their utility bills and improve the environmental performance on the farm.

Bernadette Chiaro

As huge energy bills hit California mailboxes this month, there is no better time to jumpstart a mainstream solar power market. Today's vote promises to eclipse expensive and imported fossil fuels with clean and homegrown solar power.

Jay Alan Sekulow

As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

Sam Bodman

As a result of tight oil and gas markets, and the damage done by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, it's likely that consumers will see an increase in their heating bills this winter,

Steve Tasker

The Buffalo Bills are a punch line. We were always the team that couldn't win the big game. But we kept getting to the big game.

F. Stone

As of 2004, the New York State wine industry brings in about $3.3 billion in New York State. It'd be nice to get a piece of that in Jefferson County.

Duaner Sanchez

As long as it ends this way, I'm OK with it. I just wanted to be sure Billy had a lead when he came in.

Jason Napodano

Off the top of my head, $1.3 billion sounds like a lot of money. I think it will be a billion dollar drug but it will take some time.

Mark Hansen

The Senate passes dozens of bills every year to crack down on drunk drivers.

David Yen

As part of the manufacturing process, there are some processors with less than eight cores but still with very impressive performance. We will be offering the Niagara-based boxes primarily with eight cores and six cores, and we may start with four cores.

Gordon Haff

Dell has had a really good run selling essentially cookie-cutter rack-mount servers. But the era of solving problems by just buying more boxes is coming to a close.

Michael Armstrong

Are we just moving boxes around or are we fundamentally changing the way the nation does business? It's too soon to tell. But there's a lot of good work over the past several years and decades that doesn't need to be negated.

Debbie Smith

A donation of $7 to cover the cost of getting the boxes to their destinations would also be much appreciated,

Craig Carpenter

These boxes have been ripe to run managed services for many years. And we want to see more partners do that.

Michael Solomon

We have hired eight extra people to open boxes of the tests and (sort) them by school during vacation next week.

Paul Allen

Comprehensive portal services such as Go2Net delivered directly to set-top boxes will be a critical component in the future of cable,

Michael Kennedy

First of all, land managers are bureaucrats. What they do is control things; they like to put things in little boxes and create rules. They want to do that in the easiest and most cost efficient way. When you've got a group like climbers, who want to go where they please, bureaucrats don't like that because they can't control it.

Mike Bidlo

At the time that they were shown, the Brillo Boxes were underappreciated. It's only now, with the patina of history, that we can really see these masterpieces in a clear light.

Mark Ferrulo

Any pro-environmental piece of legislation has a hard road to travel in this Congress. It's not going to be a walk in the park, not with current leadership in some of these committees.

John Breaux

a sense of what's happening in Congress and what's not happening.

Jim Hunter

Back then, they (Congress) were targeting NASCAR as a waste of fuel,

Jim Horney

Despite what you may hear from the administration and from Congress, this CBO report does not provide evidence that the tax cuts are working and that they can be extended without worrying about large deficits.

Ron Bonjean

The Speaker thinks it's a good move on their part so that Congress can properly review this deal.

Jim Matheson

Now more than ever it's not the time for Congress to be raising its pay,

Ted Cruz

Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.

Peter Swire

Right now, there's no one at home at the White House when it comes to privacy. There's no political official in the White House who has privacy in their title or as part of their job description. Congress should take the lead here because this administration has not.

Ken Johnson

Perhaps Nancy Pelosi will now realize that Billy's decision to retire from Congress had more to do with getting well physically than getting well financially.

Dr. Tucker

As far as total expectations, we know that we have work to do and we want to continue to improve. Magnet schools are just a vehicle that we are using to improve education in Texarkana. So, until education improves, then our expectations are not met.

Clive Smith

As far as their reasons for hunger striking, it seems to be a myriad of different reasons that they all have, the largest one seems to be like they want to protest their continued (detention).

Don Brash

As expected in November, growth in the economies of our trading partners has continued to be sluggish.

Richard Thompson

A thousand opinions by a court that a particular scientific theory is invalid will not make that scientific theory invalid. It is going to be up to the scientists who are going to continue to do research in their labs that will ultimately determine that.

Donald Rumsfeld

As long as there remains a need to keep terrorists from striking again, a facility will continue to be needed,

Bob Ney

as long as the offices continue to need it.

Matthew Lifson

As long as the economy is moving there's no reason to not expect the U.S. to continue to raise interest rates. The market is still looking for a higher dollar.

Anne Wilson

As long as single parents have good jobs and continue to earn, their investment strategies will be similar to married people,

Angus Campbell

As oil prices continue to trade higher, this (deficit) decline could be short lived and the U.S. trade woes may get worse.

Christian Camargo

Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I see young performers sometimes try and deliver that, and it's not really true to their voice or who they are.

John Varley

We have delivered what we said we would deliver, ... We have got very strong profit growth in a number of our businesses.

M. Thompson

We had a strong finish to 2005, a year of major transition for Fairchild, by delivering solid fourth-quarter sales and gross margin growth.

Ben Wagner

We are very excited to be a part of this project. Our team delivered a site that was designed under tight parameters and deadlines. It's always great to be involved in a project that will excite and embrace users.

Ryan Robbins

What's great about having a sci-fi/fantasy show start on the web: that's a gigantic part of your demographic right there. It targets a significant part of your demographic when you deliver online.

Swami Vivekananda

Until we realise ourselves as the Absolute, we cannot attain to deliverance.

Mark Sanders

Perry has six years of failure to deliver property tax relief and now three ridiculous tax schemes without even a legislative sponsor of this one.

Ken Livingston

No one likes each other at the top of politics. Most of them can't stand each other; but you are locked into a situation where you have to deliver something.

O. Henry

My great-grandfather used to sell peanuts in the park. He'd deliver ice - anything to make ends meet.

Jim Tocco

I've seen him in tons of parks and he does the same thing every time, but never fails to make me laugh. He's a versatile funny man.

Boss Tweed

The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken.

Barbara Jordan

For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.

Bashar al-Assad

Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.

Baruch Spinoza

Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.

Brian Jacques

Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend the right." —The law of Badger Lords

Jane D. Hull

The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made.

Benjamin Disraeli

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.

Cardinal Richelieu

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

Calvin Coolidge

We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn't have any more.

Chris Quest

Even if we marched without the uniforms, even if we marched without the marching 100, you know, it's in us, you can't take our spirit away.

Sam Smith

Tuesday, March 7, Dumpsters will be in place, so they can turn in their garbage.

Barry McGuire

Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin

Jenny Williams

We were marching to say we want more than day to day survival.

Warren G. Bennis

Cicero talks, and people marvel; Ceasar talks and people march

Larry Sabato

The sixth year of a two-term president's administration is typically an opportunity for voters to send a message. It's not going to be a pretty message for Bush, if his popularity stays this low.

Christine Berg

The take-home message is to never start smoking, and if you do smoke, to quit.

Michael Gartenberg

The survey reinforces Microsoft's message to enterprises that Windows is a safe bet.

Mason Tvert

The whole thing on 4/20 is actually something we're against. I don't really see how smoking marijuana in public does anything positive. It sends the wrong message about the work that we (SAFER) are doing.

Frank Billingsley

This is one more reason to be downtown, in buildings, parks and public areas. It also sends a message that this is a progressive community.

Adam Ereli

The United States ... reiterates this message in the strongest possible terms.

Mitch McConnell

That's not the message we want to send." ()

Damien Newton

You're sending a message about what the state's transportation priorities are.

Adalius Thomas

Brian, this message is for you: Go work out. Stop playing racquetball and run some half-gassers.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Ted Eubanks

People travel for the experience. They want to try on your lives.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Philip Hoffman

People thought they had me pegged because of the way I am, because of the way I talk, ... And they're always wrong.

Doug Myers

People think we're taking something away, but they've never been listed.

Worsie Gregory

People think we have nothing to offer. They'll be amazed.

Angela Leisure

People think they know him, but they don't. I see him only as my child.

Waris Ahluwalia

People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.

Kay Bell

People think they have even more time, and they're putting it off even further.

Ed Goeas

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

Ben Nelson

Any time the president talks, you listen.

Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Barbara Olson

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

Augusto Pinochet

Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the state and is the Supreme Chief of the Nation.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Calvin Coolidge

The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.

Calvin Coolidge

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Calvin Coolidge

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible

Todd Jones

The signs are there that they can do it. It's going to take a long time for them to get to that Target level.

Saul Williams

The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.

Olivier Gasnier

There are really no encouraging signs in this survey.

Jon Alterman

There hasn't been a 'peace process' for some time, and I don't see any signs there's going to be one resuming.

Aravind Adiga

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Carson McCullers

That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

Arianna Huffington

Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

Dave Pelzer

There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.

Andrea Bocelli

I speak to God every day.

E. M. Forster

Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.

Don DeLillo

You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.

Al Golden

You never know it as well as you think until you have to be the teacher,

Ian Millward

And, until we get that right, we're not going to win games.

F. Stone

You have to give them you until you is what they want.

Brian Leonard

Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact.

Mark Ellis

I just feel good. I didn't think anything of it until (Mark) Kotsay said, 'If you get a chance, keep running.

Robert Harrison

I'll be here every year until I die.

Ozzie Guillen

If not then he'll have to wait until Monday.

Carol Davis

If I was the council, I wouldn't want to wait until July. It's been too long.

Rita Ora

I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Shane McAnally

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.

David Nash

If it works for you, then that's great. It's what makes you feel safe.

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Dan Ryan

It (mousetrap car) always works better at home.