Famous Quotes & Sayings

Transportation has been a top problem for a decade. It's finally getting traction with elected leaders.

You know we have elections next year and maybe we need new ideas, new leadership to negotiate good terms with the teams.

When I first was elected into that office, I read that they were supposed to furnish me with a phone and an office.

Paul Ryan

When I first got elected, I was an unknown person from Janesville, Wisconsin. I'm not wealthy and I was able to do it, nonetheless. So I am living proof that an unknown, non-wealthy person can get elected to these seats.

We know there are people out there that would very much like to impede this election tomorrow, and we are prepared for it,

Claire McCaskill

You know I think the president has to really focus on getting elected to a second term in 2012. And I need to focus on making sure I'm accountable to the people of Missouri.

Unless you see banners, posters, music and loudspeakers blaring songs and election slogans there is no way one can have the enthusiasm.

Our issue is local control, local government by local elected people.

Jim Davis

Our hunger for electricity is no less than our hunger for gasoline or oil.

Overlying everything, you've got the election and there's a lot of uncertainty.

Over time, specific industry fundamentals are far more important than election results.

Paper is kept rolled up in a machine, kept for a recount or any election dispute.

Our victory is as pure as a diamond. Kostunica is the elected president and we must persist in our resistance.

Our victory is as pure as a diamond, ... Kostunica is the elected president and we must persist in our resistance.

Romano Prodi

On the unity, there is no doubt, We have to reconsider this unity after the new electoral law - how we shall work together.

Avi Rubin

People have jumped on the electronic voting bandwagon, thinking that will solve the problems, ... But these systems are largely untested.

Rich Robinson

That conceals from the public how interest groups are interacting with elected officials.

My sense was that the polarization that occurred in the last election really troubled people.

Robin Cook

My other objective today was to secure fair elections, free of intimidation,

Allen Toussaint

My whole zone is dead. No electricity, no gas, no stores open nearby, but the spirit is there.

My mother raised nine kids in a tiny house with no electricity and no running water.

Amy Walter

Many folks are very nervous about their own election prospects; they're going to want to spend as much time as possible back home doing the kind of spade work that needs to be done before a big election, and they also want to minimize any sort of exposure in Washington.

Greg Walker

Many elected officials serve for so long they become spokesmen for government, rather than those who elect them.

Charley Pride

I think they do that not just with the election, but in general.

Yulia Tymoshenko

I think these two teams will go their own way. ... Viktor Yushchenko and I will go to the elections on parallel paths,

I think there will be a relief rally when the election situation finally sorts itself out.

Mike McCurry

I think there has to be, as we've just indicated, some arrangements for a transitional process that leads to a newly elected government." ()

Rick Davis

I think straw polls would be left for the year of the election and for people who need to emerge. John McCain emerged a long time ago.

Jewish shopkeepers can do what they want, if they want to save electricity, they can do that too.

I think everyone thought there was going to be an election overhang and as a result of that, a lot of people had money sitting on the sidelines. The fourth quarter is generally pretty strong for stocks, and that proved true this year as well.

is doing what he was elected to do.

I think what the mayor has been able to do since June is focus on the record, why they elected him in the first place.

Kyle Walker

I think that as part of the mock election it was valuable to learn that so that the vendor can now understand that in the future that may be a problem that they may want to try to correct.