Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's tactically smart. He knows he's not going to get on the ballot through the convention and he doesn't want to give it any credibility.

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.

Neil Newhouse

This is not an informed or a pushed ballot test.

The whole effort, whether through the bill or the ballot initiative, is to level the playing field a bit, because it's been very lopsided.

This election is going to change everything, because everyone realizes now that the only way to take power is through the ballot box. This election is going to unite all Iraqis.

James Johnson

It prompts the voters to go through the entire ballot and at least they ready every page.

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.

Greg Nickels

A February ballot is too late for the taxpayers,

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.

Sonny Perdue

We are very supportive of a paper ballot component.

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.

Essentially, all of these competing plans that were headed for the June ballot were very popular.

Everything went really well. We had no problems with the machines. There were a few things I would like to do differently as far as organization goes when the ballots are brought in, but others said they thought it went smoothly.

This office is required to validate the signatures of Texans who sign a petition for an independent candidate, and given the fact there are multiple individuals vying for a spot on the ballot as an independent, verifying every signature is the surest way to protect the integrity of our elections and confirm the validity of a candidate's name on the ballot.

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.

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.

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

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.

He or she knows that if they don't do the right thing they'll be facing their bosses -- the people. But I think it should be on the ballot for the people to decide, because it's their city.

I guess I was brain-dead at 7 in the morning, (but) I never had a front-back ballot in my life.

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.

How can you have ... an absentee ballot if the process of getting it was in violation of the law?

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.