Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is the first election that's about him .

Ayman Nour

This is not an election. It would have been wiser for Hosni Mubarak to win by a small margin or even lose, than win in a fabricated way.

This is not his fault; he was not ready. Getting elected and being ready to do the job are two different things.

Mahmoud Abbas

This is sabotage and aimed at sabotaging the elections, not only the elections, but also the security of Palestinians. The culprits must be punished.

Charles Kennedy

This is really going to be the first modern three party UK election that we have all experienced.

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.

This election was called by Schwarzenegger, and it is a referendum on Schwarzenegger.

This election was as free and fair as it would have been under Saddam or Hitler.

Olivia Chow

This election was about you, the people who live here the victory is yours. I will take your hopes to Ottawa. I will work with a strong and united team of New Democrats.

John Shadegg

This election shows that we are listening and did respond.

This election should not be about race, about language, about coups, about an Indian or Fijian prime minister.

Oskar Lafontaine

This election is special because for the first time in years I can say we have had no opposition in the German parliament.

Stephen Harper

This election is about choice: A government plagued by scandal, that is only in it for what it can take, or our new team, who want in to public office for what it can give.

Orrin Hatch

This election is ... about a vision for America, ... A vision that looks at how we can help Mom and Pop ... empower the parents to make sure their kids have a future.

This election in November is so different because it is very, very critical. We stand to be able to take back the House,

Sherrod Brown

That's why this election is so important. You really have to throw the money changers out of the temple.

That's for the voters to decide. The voters like to elect judges who don't get overturned on appeal. As a judge, you try to follow the law.

Young people will typically show up in larger numbers in national elections, when they perceive the stakes to be higher.

Bashar al-Assad

The problem with every American candidate regarding the presidency, I am not talking only about this campaign or elections, but generally, that they say something during the campaign and they do the opposite after the campaign.

Lee Kuan Yew

Freedom of the news media must be subordinated to the overriding needs of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.

Ed Koch

I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.

Music is real when it goes inside you. You know when you really love someone, and you look into their eyes and you know it's real? Even though I'm an electronic artist, I wanna keep it real.

Jan Eliasson

I don't have time. Come back after the election.

There is a school of thought here that says we are too quick to undermine our elected leaders.

There are five swing states that on Election Day have gay marriage bans on the ballot,

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.

YesI would like to. But I really haven't thought too much about it. I love Branford and learning about it. We'll see when the elections comes around. I've learned so much in just a short time.

Ed Rendell

We will not lose this election for lack of money.

The primary security for this referendum and the national election ... will be provided for by Iraqi security forces,

And you can understand they're likely to say, 'Well, Governor, we're not going to go way out on a limb for you in this special election without some guarantee that you're going to be around for the next four years,'

Another misconception is that we are elected officials, and we are the final decision-makers.

Ariel Sharon

elect new leaders, leaders not compromised by terror.

Election years are typically not good for tech stocks. I'm not sure why that's the case.