Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Harper

The Liberal party thinks public money is a party election fund,

Alcee Hastings

The March 19 presidential election does not meet the required international standards for free and fair elections.

Kevin Millar

The kid has electric stuff. Let's see how he does here in the Nation.

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

And I wouldn't at this point make any specific linkages to what happened in this parliamentary election to any of those issues.

Jeb Hensarling

And our people are winning the hearts and minds of the citizens, ... Iraqi people would run out and wave to the helicopters as we flew by. I heard story after story told by soldiers about how grateful these people are to have potable water, schools, and even electricity in their homes - some for the first time in their lives.

John Sayles

The election helped me focus ideas that I had been thinking about for a long time, ... Sunshine State.

The election has proved his popularity has gone down. His legitimacy was greatly affected.

All elections revolve around and are often resolved by who raises the most money. That's unfair. I'd like to see that process changed, but it seems once you win and get to Congress, that doesn't happen.

Dorothy Thompson

The house was a dump. There was no plumbing, no electricity, no bathrooms,

You don't have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected.

Tom Smith

We're not giving any opinion with regard to what's going on there. We don't know if replacements are permanent or temporary. We don't look into that until after the election occurs, if the election is challenged.

We actually won the election but I took no joy in seeing the governor humiliated. Let's start anew. We're not looking for another fight.

Joe Biden

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

Lou Reed

Electricity comes from other planets.

John Ford

Electronics is clearly the winner of the day.

John Jay Hooker

Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee.

The law is the law, and we need to implement it. We promise to dismantle all illegal outposts within a year of my being elected prime minister. All 105 outposts will be dismantled.

The likelihood is that this election will not be like 1996, when every state had lower turnout.

The day after the election you have a really good idea how serious people were for their enthusiasm for a particular candidate,

The DAX has outperformed since the election was called in May,

John Major

A moratorium around election time to end some of these shenanigans would be appropriate.

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.

The market moved up and down during the day jointly with the U.S. stocks. Electric utilities are on the rise as investors think telecoms have reached levels where they become expensive and relocate money into electrics.

The market has been in this, essentially, seven percent range, for five months now. Unfortunately, the summer months during election years tend to be pretty directionless, with people not wanting to make moves until they know what's going on with the election.

Hamilton Jordan

If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit.

John le Carre

Elections are a Western jerk-off.

Without security, there's no possibility, as many power plants as you have, to actually get electricity, water, sewage, power to Iraqis, ... And so that's why so much of this money and the reallocation that you see is moving toward security.

Without Gil Reed pushing this facility and the Pine Tree Zone incentives, we would be someplace else. This is a great facility. They have loading docks, they can do our shipping, they have a welding facility, there is plenty of electricity and Gil really sold us on the great work force.

Dennis Hastert

When the electricity goes out and everything else goes out -- you don't have the pumps to pump it out either. Because it doesn't work either.

When the electricity didn't work, when television didn't work, when the Internet didn't work, when pay radio didn't work, free radio worked,

When we took part in the elections we honestly expected to win but we did not expect to win by so much.

Ruth Glick

Unfortunately for me, most of the books I'd want to reprint were written for savvy publishers like Harlequin and Berkley who have held on to electronic rights. But I do have another option: Publish new e-books myself.