Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John McKay

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

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.

Blanche Lincoln

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

Martin O'Malley

The right to vote gives every eligible American a voice in our electoral politics. There's too much at stake to stay silent as this right is eroded.

Romano Prodi

On the unity, there is no doubt, We have to reconsider this unity after the new electoral law - how we shall work together.

Chris Chocola

Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks.

Chris Christie

China need to be fought back on. And what we need to do is go at the things that they are most sensitive and most embarrassing to them; that they're hiding; get that information and put it out in public. Let the Chinese people start to digest how corrupt the Chinese government is; how they steal from the Chinese people; and how they're enriching oligarchs all throughout China.

Chris Christie

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

Chris Christie

Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?

Edward Gibbon

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

Edward Gibbon

The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the executive powers of government. During a happy period (A.D. 98-180) of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by the virtue and abilities of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the two Antonines.

Edward Gibbon

The two Antonines (for it is of them that we are now speaking) governed the Roman world forty-two years, with the same invariable spirit of wisdom and virtue. ... Their united reigns are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.

Ed Balls

I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade,

Earl Warren

The mere summoning of a witness and compelling him to testify against his will, about his beliefs, expressions or associations, is a measure of governmental interference. And when those forced revelations concern maters that are unorthodox, unpopular, or even hateful to the general public, the reactions in the life of the witness may be disastrous.

Barbara Boxer

You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I want the people of Afghanistan to thrive. Lord knows, we spend enough money there to help them. What about people at home? Isn't that our first responsibility?

Quetel Osterval

Every Haitian here is supporting 10 people back on the island, and that's 10 votes.

Rene Preval

If they publish the results as they are now, we will oppose them, the Haitian people will also oppose them, and there will be protests.

Colin Powell

has the interest of the Haitian people at heart.

Rene Preval

The Haitian people are frustrated. They have a right to be frustrated. And they have the right to protest. But we must respect private property. We must respect the law. We must respect the rights of others.

Felipe Alou

We always have big rallies when they walk him. I hope they don't stop walking him.

Charles L. Allen

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

Jack Rio

We're going to keep him out this week, then hopefully get him back as quick as we can, ... This is not a season-ending injury by any means.

Jim McAlpin

We're going to have to find some different ways to score because of that, but we'll still attack. We hope to score as much as we did last year.

Bruce Allen

We're getting some more analysis. He's still on the team. He is wanting to play. We're hopeful that he can. But we're going to get the proper medical opinion.

J. Horton

We're hopeful what we have done to this point is enough.

Wayne Kramer

We're hopeful we'll be able to identify many more.

Jason Tapp

We're hopeful that a much more experienced and talented team this season will have us near or on top at the end of the regular season.

Jeff Hall

We're hopeful ... but realistically we're looking for deceased.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

Randy Nixon

We want to see people come to this meeting who want to work, who want to see it happen.

Omar Epps

We're in Hollywood. I meet people like that every day.

John Lackey

When we have two jurisdictions, we have to have a meeting of the minds.

Emmett Hanger

We've got more work to do there. In order to meet our targets for 2010, it's going to run us about $100 million a year.

Tim Collins

We're doing everything we can to meet the needs of our customers, but things are going to be kind of crowded.

Robert Worthy

We're really getting into the meet of our schedule. This is really important.

Dave Uhrich

A lot of track meets aren't scored. Going in, we didn't know that it was going to be a scored met, and we didn't plan on taking this meet that seriously. But we did end up doing well.

Jerry Bovee

This (amendment) was written to say if you want to be in the association, we want you to play. I don't know of any school in our association that can't meet this requirement.

Alanis Morissette

The whole idea of emotions being something we can't escape as humans, but that deep suffering that comes from resisting them, we can move out of that just by not resisting anymore. But it takes a really brave warrior soul to sit there in these emotions that admittedly don't feel good in the body.

Alan Greenspan

If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine. It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.

Alan Arkin

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

Al Sharpton

I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.

Al Kaline

This time you've dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with.

Akon

I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.

Akira Kurosawa

There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work. When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film. I believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the filmmaker to make his film in the first place.

Akio Morita

Americans make money by playing `money games,' namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth ... instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Teach us, O God, that nothing is necessary to Thee. Were anything necessary to Thee that thing would be the measure of Thine imperfection: and how could we worship one who is imperfect? If nothing is necessary to Thee, then no one is necessary, and if no one, then not we. Thou dost seek us though Thou does not need us. We seek Thee because we need Thee, for in Thee we live and move and have our being. Amen.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Audre Lorde

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Pam Walker

The possibility for the process to be tainted is just too much.

Bill Nighy

I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.

Bruce Miller

We have no idea how long this process will take.

Chandler Parsons

Honestly, I was offended by the whole process,

Barbra Streisand

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

Bill Joy

Interleaf is based on the formatting process.

Floyd Reese

This does not end the process with Jevon. We would still like to have him as part of this team, just not under the 'franchise tag' parameters.

George Miller

This bill, and the process by which it passed, is a disgrace.

Tom Wright

There really is no timetable for us to do that.

Sherrod Brown

We must have a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces - or at the very least a plan for it - something the administration has incredulously failed to do for over two years.

Bob Gainey

It'll probably be a day or two before we know the timetable for him.

Ashton Eaton

My goal in Korea is to win. There's no timetable when to set the American record.

Darah Huffman

We've waited a year for this game. Look at that ... I'm still shaking.

Marcus Williams

I waited it out, but I was tired.

E. B. White

I would have waited for the nationwide search.

Byron Dorgan

I think this is nonnegotiable, ... You've waited too long.

Craig Biggio

It's indescribable, I've waited so long for this to happen,

Neal Schon

We waited around for about a year and a half.

Felipe Alou

We waited a long time, so if we wait another day or two or three, it's OK.