Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steny Hoyer

Today, the U.S. Congress declares America's independence from hanging chads, butterfly ballots and a broken outdated election system that nearly provoked a constitutional crisis two years ago.

John Ravitz

We have to keep counting the absentee ballots, because under the law those ballots that we receive a week after the election we have to count as well. So if it is close, we are not going to rush to judgment. We are going to do the responsible thing and make sure we give all of the candidates and the voters of the city of New York real numbers, not numbers that are unofficial.

Ken Fields

Voters should know we are working with officials to provide ballots and equipment that will work well on Election Day.

Craig Waters

While the court does not in any sense condone the irregularities noted by the trail court in the way the applications for absentee ballots were handled. However, these irregularities do not require the voiding of all absentee ballots.

Max Linn

The problem is Florida voters keep saying eight years, but the legislature is hearing 12 and 24 years. They're just not hearing the voters who cast their ballots by a solid 77% margin in favor of eight-year term limits, so we decided to help their hearing.

Delores Killette

We realize that a percentage of Louisiana voters will vote by absentee ballots. We are committed to the residents of New Orleans, wherever they are living now. It is important that displaced residents understand that we will to do our part to make sure that absentee ballots are delivered and counted.

Delores Killette

We realize that a large percentage of Louisiana voters are exercising their constitutional right to vote via absentee ballots. Those ballots are being sent through the mail, and the United States Postal Service stands ready to deliver these ballots to elections officials.

Abraham Lincoln

To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary

Pat Riley

When you're casting your ballots for Defensive Player of the Year or All-Defensive Team, there's no doubt. I think people forget about what he's done. He's second in the league in blocks and he only plays 16 or 18 minutes per game. He's really a factor for us. I thought he was the difference tonight.

Edward Norton

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

Neneh Cherry

What's sometimes really overwhelming in Sweden is the uniformity. People kind of disappear by all looking the same and wearing the same clothes. There are a lot of great individuals, but it can become a very blank and bleak picture.

Debra Ness

John Roberts is no longer a blank slate, he has an extensive record and that record is far outside the mainstream.

Mark Gatiss

I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on.

Dan Brown

I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

Akhilesh Pandey

We proved they were valid. By linking computerized sleuthing to laboratory experiments to confirm those findings, we expect to be able to eventually fill in many blanks in human protein-protein interactions.

Rece Davis

We'll get there the day before and do some promotional work regarding our features. We'll get together and figure out how we're going to do the promotions. But everything is a blank canvas right now.

Hattie Morahan

Throughout my life, I've known that if I change my hair, if I change my look, people I know will blank me in the street.

Joyce Blazier

I was sitting here on this blanket so, here's the truck - maybe 6 feet.

David Tom

Voters will be surprised when they show up at their polling place and find they aren't on the rolls. There are a lot of things we don't feel comfortable with.

Judd Gregg

That's why this has been put forward. This is a polling event,

Jim Cooper

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

Darlene Rickman

It is very much like voting at a precinct polling place.

Laurent Gbagbo

Go tomorrow to vote. Be vigilant, be there at every polling station to oversee the vote.

Chris Bates

We have to wait another quarter to see if it continues.

Elliott Schlang

The quarter was substantially better than what we had anticipated.

Mary Bukovac

We really struggled from the field, especially in the third quarter when we had only two points.

Alex Kellogg

We really stepped it up from the second quarter to the end of the third.

Sammy Willis

We got better every quarter but couldn't get going in the first quarter. We just couldn't make our shots.

Jack Coit

I wish we could just skip that second quarter though. We get a little wrapped up in what we're doing sometimes.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter,

Eric Ross

We're in for a rough quarter with Intel.

John Eaton

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

Brittany Howard

I once had this massacred afro in third grade. Parts were bigger than others. It was just terrible.

George H. W. Bush

use the third person -- 'they' and 'he' -- and you know who I mean.

Kyle Gilchrist

I thought I was in better shape. He had so much weight to cut. I thought that if I got him into the third period, I could get him.

Sebastian Coe

We really want the Games, this is our third time trying.

John Smoltz

If it were the old way there would have been another four-spot in that third inning.

Marc Crawford

He was a difference-maker in the third period.

Robert Eenhoorn

He can play first, second, third or the outfield.

Brandon Jacobs

If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about.

Charles Nelson Reilly

I live at the dentist's. I'm on my third set of teeth that they put in with nails and screws.