Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Smith

This ballot referendum is a chance for voters to go in and give their opinion on the current policy. It is a chance to say we want to change the war policy.

Doc Rivers

They made it hard for us all night around the basket. I'm getting my All-Star ballot back and putting Jake on it. He was terrific.

This is going to be a light ballot. Every 12 years, this is the smallest ballot that goes before the voters.

This is going to be most expensive ballot in California history.

This is a two-person race. We're going to get the signatures, and she's going to be on the ballot in November.

Bruce Fein

You can't have two ballots that are identical ... and have (them) counted in one way in one county and another way in another county,

He's trying to recapture the glories of the past, and he is doing it through basketball. He was once a superstar. He fell away, and now he's trying to make a comeback. He's trying to get what he couldn't get in the courts and couldn't get at the ballot box.

Chris Jones

Brennan Lowery was accidentally left off of the ballot for second-year vice president through no fault of his own. He completed all requirements.

Being voted into the Hall of Fame is the biggest individual honor in baseball. Being voted in on the first ballot is what cements your place in history as one of the greatest to ever play the game. There are likely to be many voters that will think twice about placing Bonds in that elite company, especially when you consider he's never been the most popular individual with the media.

Every dollar spent on these campaign promises, on these two ballot measures, is another dollar that could be spent on a true solution to some of the city's real problems, to the deficit, to the potholes, to park maintenance.

Special election ballots do not list the party affiliations of candidates, ... Should no candidate in a race receive a majority of votes on Aug. 30, a runoff election will be held on Sept. 13.

So much for a secret ballot not controlled by the NHLPA,

The situation where a political party can file a party ballot on the condition that women candidates take up no less than 30% positions on it is quite normal, I think.

The bottom line is that we want candidates on the ballot in the elections that support the people's right to vote. We want the city's voters to decide.

Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets

Ballots are automatically mailed out if you're registered to vote.

Ballots and Burqas: Women and Community Change in Afghan-istan.

Bruce Sutter

As long as you're on the ballot, you have a chance. Just being on the ballot is such a great honor.

John Burns

We will also have paper ballots to help with the transition. We will be fully electronic touch-screen voting in November for the fall general election.

The worst case scenario is for both plans to go on the ballot and confuse voters so nothing gets done again.

Rose Schneiderman

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.

The school board did a pretty good job of massaging the ballot language. They're deceivers and you get sucked in.

We insisted on getting on the ballot by petition, because ours is a candidacy of the people and not of big money. We intend to represent the interest of the people and not the multinational corporations and banks.

Larry Sabato

The Congress reads the polls; they know that the president is not where he was once and they're on the ballot next November.

Justin Trudeau

I'm not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret arrangements. I think that's a cause for cynicism more than anything else.

Dan Quayle is completely committed to this campaign, and we understand that the real test will occur early next year when voters cast their ballots in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary,

Donna Howard is just the tip of the iceberg. We're going to win races all up and down that ballot in November.

John Burns

Eventually this will save us money by eliminating the old paper ballots. It's always been hard to estimate how many people will vote and plan to have enough ballots printed. That problem should be eliminated. We've had a trash barrel full of ballots left over because we had too many ballots printed and then have a low voter turnout.

The ballot was a secret ballot for good reason and the way in which members voted should remain confidential to each and every member, except in the most extraordinary of circumstances.

Robert Barry

The ballot this year is highly complex. We are trying to make sure that people understand the ballot. For the first time this year, it is electronically readable.

The ballot result indicates the level of dissatisfaction the staff have with the board.

The ballot measure will cost taxpayers more than it will save them. It's going to really backfire.

The ballot is very straightforward, ... You follow the arrow, you punch the location. Then you have voted for who you intend to elect.