Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have set a policy that if they're on the general election ballot and they're a special district, there would not be a charge.

P. J. O'Rourke

There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.

Rick Berman

The reason that the law is set up with secret ballots is that it's too easy to compromise someone's intention.

There could not have been a more decisive outcome of this ballot or a more decisive vote in favor a strike.

John Burns

We will also have paper ballots to help with the transition. We will be fully electronic touch-screen voting in November for the fall general election.

We're not making any decision about anything until the ballots are counted. We can't talk about the next race until we are finished with this one.

We're receiving applications, but we're not sending out ballots because we don't have them yet.

Fay Vincent

The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.

We're trying to make clear that it is, in fact, too late to cast that ballot now.

Those who vote by early ballot are high-efficacy voters. They're very concerned about the issues in their community.

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.

He or she knows that if they don't do the right thing they'll be facing their bosses -- the people. But I think it should be on the ballot for the people to decide, because it's their city.

No serviceman on the frontline overseas can go get his ballot postmarked. I don't think it's reasonable for us to think that we should force him to do that or (we will) not count his ballot.

Greg Nickels

A February ballot is too late for the taxpayers,

So much for a secret ballot not controlled by the NHLPA,

The situation where a political party can file a party ballot on the condition that women candidates take up no less than 30% positions on it is quite normal, I think.

Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets

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

Ballots and Burqas: Women and Community Change in Afghan-istan.

Bruce Sutter

As long as you're on the ballot, you have a chance. Just being on the ballot is such a great honor.

This is going to be a light ballot. Every 12 years, this is the smallest ballot that goes before the voters.

This is going to be most expensive ballot in California history.

This is a two-person race. We're going to get the signatures, and she's going to be on the ballot in November.

Neil Newhouse

This is not an informed or a pushed ballot test.

The whole effort, whether through the bill or the ballot initiative, is to level the playing field a bit, because it's been very lopsided.

Any registered voter eligible to vote in the election may vote by absentee ballot without stating a reason.

The bottom line is that we want candidates on the ballot in the elections that support the people's right to vote. We want the city's voters to decide.

Doc Rivers

They made it hard for us all night around the basket. I'm getting my All-Star ballot back and putting Jake on it. He was terrific.

Bruce Fein

You can't have two ballots that are identical ... and have (them) counted in one way in one county and another way in another county,

an easy way for the City Council to pass a tax, and there's nothing the public can do about it until it comes time for them to go to the ballot box and vote for aldermen.

Essentially, all of these competing plans that were headed for the June ballot were very popular.

Everything went really well. We had no problems with the machines. There were a few things I would like to do differently as far as organization goes when the ballots are brought in, but others said they thought it went smoothly.

Being voted into the Hall of Fame is the biggest individual honor in baseball. Being voted in on the first ballot is what cements your place in history as one of the greatest to ever play the game. There are likely to be many voters that will think twice about placing Bonds in that elite company, especially when you consider he's never been the most popular individual with the media.