Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 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,

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 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.

It's fast. It's easy. You don't run the risk of math errors. I can't think of a reason not to use electronic filing.

Americans are not going to have the kind of insight into this election as they have had in the past.

Steve Davis

They had a 2-1 advantage, and they took her off the ballot, ... What they have done is entered the twilight of election law.

They'd just as soon sit on the sidelines in an election year, but they will do what they have to do, and they have moved in other election seasons.

Henry Paulson

This acquisition highlights Goldman Sachs' strategy of expanding our electronic market-making capabilities,

This is an election that has put our election system to the test. We still don't know officially who will be in the second round.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

It is time to make our representatives more responsive to the people who elect them.

It's very challenging. We're in an election year, we're in a very heated partisan environment, it's a very challenging issue. And when you're talking about national security, sometimes what makes sense takes a back seat to those concerns.

Foreign policy issues are not the ones that are going to elect the president.

David Suzuki

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment, ... Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

There was electricity just going and going like a wave. It just kept on going wave after wave.

There will be a lot of talk, but not a lot of position taking until the election results are known.

There will be absentee balloting by mail that runs right up to the day before Election Day.

There's a lot more incentive to hack an election if there are millions of voters and you can swing important races. Whereas, if only hundreds of voters are voting over the internet, there's going to be a lot less incentive to exploit the vulnerabilities.

Chris Jones

There's a lot at stake during these elections. The positions voted for have a lot of influence around the University community.

William Hague

It must be a sobering lesson for all parties that millions of people have been reluctant or have refused to participate in this election at all and there will be much to reflect on for the Conservative Party.

It's an unprecedented year for election system vendors and jurisdictions.

It really requires joint intervention (with the U.S. Federal Reserve), and no U.S. official is going to sanction that in a presidential election year.

I told the LDP leadership this morning that I will resign as head of the party. Our failure in the election is my fault and responsibility,

This is the most screwed up election I've ever seen.

Mitch Landrieu

This is the most important election in the city's history.

They're going into this election without their standard-bearer.

There's a natural pursuit of elected officials which I think is healthy and normal.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The American people, in their own families, they understand that you have to do that. You have to make the tough decisions. You have to get your budget. You have got to put it in order. And they expect their elected officials and their leaders to do likewise.

Tony Tan

I'm glad that Singaporeans were receptive to my message and have elected me to serve as their president.

David Harsanyi

Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism.

There is a substantial correlation between an election year and how the market finishes.