Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elliott Abrams

President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection and to advance their cause.

Lance Palmer

It helps the bear out to not have to keep his mouth closed the whole time. It's kind of unfair to the bear to keep him muzzled. We want it to be fun. We don't want it to be a sport. That's why the animal activists don't know what they are taking about when they come out here and try and go against what we do.

Jonathan Tisch

Citizen activists look in the mirror, see what they're really good at and then apply their talents to solving social problems. It's skills-based volunteering.

Cindy Sheehan

If peace activists really want to make changes, they have to start putting intense pressure on their elected officials. Of course, everything should be non-violent, because we are trying to create a peaceful world, and violence can't produce peace - no matter what George W. Bush and his buddies say.

Chris Gabrieli

Indeed, while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools.

Michael Phillips

The issue activists march. The electoral activists are talking to other students, they are working at campaign headquarters, and they are making trips to New Hampshire and Iowa and beyond.

Whitney Tilson

The key swing vote is the passive investors who decide whether to piggyback on what the activists are doing. For every dollar of activist money involved in a campaign, there is usually at least $10 of non-activist money involved.

Doug Freeman

The county convention gives the Democratic Party activists an opportunity to come together for a common effort. Politics is not a spectator nor an individual sport but, rather, a team effort to build the kind of communities, states and nation that all can be proud to call American. The Democratic Party of Henderson County is dedicated to citizen involvement in the political process.

Quentin Kidd

Allen has a position within the ideological spectrum of the Republican Party that serves him well in a primary. He's really appealing to the party activists within the Party. And that's good for candidates who are running in primaries.

John Hall

Joe doesn't work with any candidate that contacts him. He picks and chooses. His confidence in my campaign is likely to extend to other people.

David Makovsky

He wants to demonstrate that under his leadership there will be no compromises over Jerusalem. If the Palestinians choose to confront him, he will use them essentially as props to say, like his campaign slogan, that he's a 'strong leader for a strong nation,'

Terry Holt

There are still a lot of questions about whether or not the Kerry campaign benefited from the information Berger took.

Gerry Adams

Here you see (Trimble) walking out of incomplete talks last week, orchestrating a campaign of mass intimidation and all that went with it, and then he walks back into the talks this morning.

James Browning

I think the issue of developers' influence is going to explode in the elections in Montgomery County next year, and our campaign finance laws have clearly failed to restrain their influence.

Roger Kay

I think the issue now is that growth may have stalled, and a campaign like this may be designed to reinvigorate it.

Tim Kane

I think that one of the funny things is, our economy has six or seven speedometers and six of those show acceleration and great robust speed but one of them doesn't. Well, you're perfectly suited for a political campaign because you get to pick the speedometer you want people to focus on,

Dick Gephardt

I think by even President Bush's own standards, the themes that he used in the campaign and after, he hasn't measured up,

Terry Christensen

I think it's out of hand. Just the sheer volume of initiatives and the confusing campaigns have subverted the original intent. We should be able to vote on fairly significant things and be able to figure out what we're voting on without three hours of study.

John McKay

We're protecting Florida's 25 electoral votes and its 6 million voters,

Osama Attawiya

The electoral process until 22:00 was as good as could have been envisioned.

Bereket Simon

Their objective was to undermine the electoral system and overthrow the government,

German Espejo

And if they can increase the rate of abstention by scaring people away from voting, that would rob Uribe of some of his electoral legitimacy.

Boris Nemtsov

This is simply quite stupid ... The American electoral system needs modernizing. An American comedy!

Chuck Schumer

The way to lessen the grip of the Tea Party on the electoral process would be to do what a handful have done and have a primary where all voters, members of every party, can vote, and the top two vote-getters then enter a runoff.

Timothy Noah

President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election.

Rene Preval

We have questions about the electoral process. We want to see how we can save the process.

Marianne Williamson

The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved.

Kenneth Relihan

I think what you're going to find is that the standards in New Hampshire are permissive, not descriptive.

David Brown

I imagine most (communities) in southern New Hampshire are going to have record wet years.

Karl Rove

This is his high water mark. New Hampshire might be the same for John McCain.

Laura Halldorson

We're happy about tonight, OK? We'll talk about New Hampshire later.

Stephanie Cutter

Ridiculous, ... there is nothing like Iowa and New Hampshire to make somebody look better.

Mary Shea

New Hampshire out-played us for most of the first half,

David Reutimann

New Hampshire has never had a repeat winner in the truck series. I'd like to keep that streak alive.

Scott Morgan

New Hampshire has always done well in this ranking.

Roseanne Barr

One of the first things I bought when I made 'Roseanne Show' money was a farm in Iowa.

Curtis Stinson

I'll be back at Iowa State next year.

Sherri Coale

Iowa State played fantastic. When we were up by 10 points (with 6 1/2 minutes to play), Iowa State could have said 'we're done,' but they kept fighting.

Jim Nussle

Iowa needs to be not only a renewable (energy) leader from a production standpoint but also a leader from a consumption standpoint.

Josh Earnest

There was always this sense, even early on in the campaign, that if the senator Obama could score this upset victory in Iowa, that there was a pretty good chance that he would end up being president of the United States.

Mara Liasson

Hillary Clinton is also not a very exciting, inspiring candidate to a lot of the left-leaning Democratic base, especially in Iowa.

Joe Biden

There's less than one percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than four of five percent that are minorities. What is in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with.

Joan Didion

California: The west coast of Iowa.

Joan Didion

Lancaster, California ... that promised land sometimes called 'the west coast of Iowa.

Mike Quigley

Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so you are tearing into as many as you can.

Ted Cruz

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

Judith Sayers

There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but those negotiations will be between First Nations and government.

Reuben Brewer

I think the most salient issue right now (in the industry) is how to make a buck.

Jon Karkow

I think we're at the point where it isn't an issue now.

David Neumark

I think what the living-wage movement has done in the past 11 years is incredible. How many other issues are there where progressives have been this successful? I can't think of one.

Laura Tyson

I think that's understood as a policy issue in China. I don't think it's understood as a policy issue in the United States.

Imelda Marcos

I think that's a very kinky issue with the panties and bras. That's the thing that they will display: shoes, panties and bras.

Paul Robertson

I think some of the technical and infrastructure issues haven't been completely realized,

William Farmer

I think it'll be ok; I think by the end of this year, we won't be talking about PeopleSoft at all.

Bob Lachky

I think you're talking about a two-year play at least.

Stephen Smith

It is frustrating because we're not getting 10 to 12 inches. You're talking about 2 to 4 inches. We live in Wisconsin. It is not like this is unusual.

Bill Callahan

What do you mean? What are you talking about?

Denise Holmes

It is significant. We're going from talking to doing.

Chris Lofton

He was just talking about how he wished it would have worked out for me up here.

Jackie Gentry

I'd been talking about it for a long time.

Dwayne Jarrett

He was the only one talking in the huddle.

Richard Wilbur

That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves talking at once-all of them being fair to each other.