Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laisenia Qarase

Our latest estimate and time frames for new elections is three years,

But we do not see much headway in this regard before general elections are held next year. We will raise the six-day work issue again.

Duncan Hunter

I think the American people have been surprised by the enthusiasm with which the Iraqis have taken to elections and politics.

The expectation is that Koizumi will win by a reasonable majority, that reforms will go forward and the opposition to the Japan Post sale will be crushed.

That's the way elections are won, a lot of feet on the ground and lots of hard work on the ground.

I would like to see open elections in the future, and I am going to push for it.

If the elections had taken place in a good way, like the first stage, 35 of those would have won.

She has done a good job insofar as she hasn't made any mistakes. But we'll have to see how she does on the really big reforms after the state elections before we can judge if she is doing well in a positive sense, rather than just not making mistakes.

Now they (the Palestinians) are having elections and then we will see who will become leader after the election but whoever is leader is the person the European Union will be talking to.

Sharon won't make any concessions to Abbas, but we will hear a lot of positive rhetoric. Sharon now will play for time because obviously elections are what matters to him and he doesn't want to be perceived as giving in to the Arabs.

So far, the views on the elections in Iraq have been positive,both by the United Nations, as well as other observers.

We won the elections, but a huge job comes afterward.

Nobody expected (voter turnout) to be higher than the first round, and historically there's not a lot of turnout for legislative elections in Haiti.

Ted Cruz

The Washington establishment think Republicans win elections by you don't stand for anything, you keep your head down, you don't rock the boat. You know what? Every time we do that, we get clobbered in the polls.

Our pledge is to hold elections in the year 1985. The form of elections has not yet been determined, but there is a group of representatives of the political parties in Nicaragua who have been traveling around the world studying various electoral alternatives.

There are only three elections, and they are obviously in very different parts of the state. But we, hopefully, will be able to glean some information from the results of these elections.

Martin Schulz

Markets have priced in a positive outcome of the elections.

Markets have been pricing in Koizumi's victory in the elections. That's positive for the yen.

E. P. Thompson

People are careful, they want to see the outcome of the elections this time around to see how things will work out...It would possibly be in six months' time when people can make up their minds to go.

Jennifer Dunn

As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook.

The negative side of this (election) is that nothing is going to happen until the elections are over.

Judy Woodruff

After the midterm elections, Karl jumped from being prime minister to king.

The observer mission has termed the elections free and fair. Party representatives were present in, I believe, just about every polling station and they signed off on the records.

It's not impossible to hold free and fair elections, but it's going to be very dicey.

For many, last November's peaceful elections were a sign that after 14 years of unrest and violence, Liberia is back on the road to peace and stability.

The fear is that the tension will result in new elections and Turkey won't be able to put in a strong anti-inflation program.

I'm indignant. Berlusconi is not at all involved in this. I don't know if this was motivated by elections but you have to emphasize the timing.

I'm glad the elections are not today, ... This is going to be the low ebb.

There used to be an iron law that governments won or lost elections on the strength of the economy,

It's sort of 'Election' meets 'Fargo,' ... Mr. Gibb.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

No matter what the outcome of the election, we have to sit down and talk, ... This place is ready to boom. It could be another Gold Rush here. So let's start putting a program together for infrastructure that's really big thinking ? like landing a man on the moon kind of vision. Big.

Nothing has been announced. We still have to get over the elections and see what happens then and what the (new) government of Iraq wants,

I want to reaffirm that after the election, we will stage protracted protests until the prime minister resigns.