Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hague

I wouldn't have an election at this point to date. That would be putting party before country.

Davy Crockett

I would rather be beaton and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

I would give odds that something would pass but it wouldn't shock me if they failed to agree. This is an election year, a political year, and you never know what's going to happen.

Basically, the electricity in my heart wasn't working correctly.

Imagine if your hair was to stand up from static electricity, that's kind of what the corona looks like all around the sun.

Philippe Petit

I hate all electronic things that are supposed to help the human being. You don't smell, you don't hear, you don't touch anymore.

I feel this is taking a step backwards. An employee of a person who is an elected official could have his opinion swayed.

From this moment forward, Oscar Arias has been declared officially elected as president of Costa Rica.

Charles Clarke

I expect the leadership election to be something like 2008.

If it's important to Americans, it's important to us. We are their elected officials, and we are responding swiftly to this matter.

What will be more influential on the outcome of (this year's) election is the shape of the turnout: Who will (vote)?

Here it comes, in time for the elections, the voting statement of the Milan prosecutors' office.

Here, in our territory, the elections will not take place on October 30.

James Thurber

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

Here you have an elected leader with skills and money who doesn't throw people in jail and pull out their fingernails. That's what makes him so dangerous.

John Updike

Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity.

Go home Jesse, ... We elected our school board, not Jesse Jackson.

Historically, the turnout for a special election is in the mid-30 percent range to 40 percent,

I suspect that they want to maybe get in the game before the federal election takes over,

I suspect people not planning to come back will not even care. It seems to me the electorate is going to be more upscale and more white than it was, but what the numbers are going to be, who knows?

Italian voters are not going to be overly impressed by television footage of Berlusconi with George Bush. The overriding issue in these elections is the economy. In 2001, Italians voted for Berlusconi because he promised they would be better off: actually they feel worse off.

Wayne Taylor

I think it may have started as an electrical fire because I started smelling something in the cockpit,

Wayne LaPierre

I think it may be the most important election in the history of the Second Amendment. We're telling people, if they value the freedom to own a firearm, this is the election you'd better get out and vote.

I think it's huge. We won the toss and elected to go into the wind in the first half so we could have it at our back in the second half.

I think it's important that we got the ruling, ... It puts the election back on schedule and ratifies the process the city's been using.

We can get electronic test results back within 24 hours, ... Teachers will be able to use the results right away to help with the curriculum.

There is no alternative for the government than to postpone the so-called elections. We will not rest until the government stops election plans, and the king return the powers he took back to the people.

There is no electricity in parts of town, but there is food, there is water.

Alastair Campbell

There is going to have to be another leader in place when the next election comes and you would have to put your money on Gordon,

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

We took part in the presidential election to wake people up, to tell them the truth.

We're in the process of setting up all of our procedures that we'll use on Election Day.

Ray Charles

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room