Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barack Obama

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.

Howard Dean

Use your network to send progressive delegates to the convention in Boston. ... We are not going away, we are staying together, unified, all of us.

Ralph Brennan

We need to be able to increase our efforts and the efforts of the CVB to sell the Convention Center. This is a huge investment for the state, and we need to make sure it pays off.

Pat Walsh

I was still working on my last entry on Wednesday night before the convention opened on Thursday. So, it was a long, hard struggle to get where I was.

Tom Ridge

to date, there is no specific intelligence that tells us or indicates to us that the convention itself would be subject to an attack.

Andy Long

I think it's a great move putting another person in there on the convention side.

Frank Fahrenkopf

He was somewhat surprised to learn that most of the convention space was also destroyed,

Kimberly Devlin

He will not be participating in the convention at all.

Walt Baker

I can't see a lot of development without that convention center.

Abraham Lincoln

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

Franco Debono

The people are represented in Parliament. Therefore parliamentarians are not party delegates but representatives of the people elected on a party ticket, which is different.

Gore Vidal

I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic.

Kevin Hall

We have Virginians who, through their elected representatives and their judges and juries, support this as a matter of public policy in Virginia.

Phil Roe

I got elected to run the government more efficiently, lower taxes.

Eric Thode

Whoever were to get elected in this rushed, expensive, 20- to 30-candidate special election, they're going to serve no time to speak of, and they're going to do nothing.

Nick Ryan

Jim Nussle is doing the job he was elected to do by getting results on Iowa priorities.

Gabriel Claudio

The President has been elected for a six-year term. The mandate was won fair and square in the election in 2004 and the mandate stays until 2010.

Davy Crockett

I would rather be beaton and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Warren Tompkins

Having run before and served in the U.S. Senate, McCain will start out as a front-runner nationally and that translates to South Carolina.

John Dowd

McCain told me this was worse than being in the Hanoi Hilton.

Gore Vidal

McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

I'd vote for Mickey Mouse before I voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Paul Broun

I'm very disappointed with the McCain campaign. In my opinion, it was inept.

John Dickerson

The McCain people are chalking up Tuesday as nothing to worry about.

Eric Bolling

What did [Donald] Trump say about John McCain?

Sarah Palin

John McCain has already tapped me

Joe Madureira

Having a blank slate is sometimes as daunting as it is exciting.

Mary Fasbender

It's time to step back and wipe the slate clean.

Mark Snyder

Cody Slate is going to play this year.