Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think 2006 is going to be better than 2005 because it's an election year.

Iraqis in the street are saying that the Shiite-dominated government planned it that way. The elections gave people hope for an improved life, but immediately after the vote, the quality of life declined.

If there is one threat to the holding of elections as scheduled, it is the security situation.

If there are demonstrations, they will be sabotaging the elections,

If there's somebody who really lost the elections, it's the exit polls.

If there's no electricity, can you walk up and down the stairs?

Kim Smith

If the people want this and we elected our school board, sooner or later they're going to have to listen to us.

If our elected officials in Texas want to impose harsh penalties for the use of marijuana, that is their decision, but the university does not have to pile on.

I personally feel that I got elected to do a job. I am not one to succumb to political pressure or what's politically correct. I have to go out and do what I think is the right thing.

Iowa has become not just a state important in the primaries, but important to the general election.

If utilities shut off your electricity, they'll never get your money, so typically they will work with you.

Chris Jones

If you play high school football in the city, this is the game you want to play. We're looking forward to it. It should be an electric atmosphere. It's the way all high school football games should be.

If you turn the experiment around and put the hydrogen and oxygen in and take the electricity off, you have a fuel cell.

I didn't feel the electricity today. I didn't see the spark in the team's eyes.

He's talked to me about having that personality that's got to match your stuff, ... He said, 'If you've got electric stuff, you've got to have an electric personality. Hitters don't have to fear you, but they have to be leery of you. When you come in they have to think, O.K., this game is over.'

He's elected a lot of people who are urban and reform-minded and not part of the old machine.

Jacques Rogge

I'm very happy with the way the elections have been handled ... putting the interests of the IOC before personal interests.

In essence these are multi-party elections in a one-party state.

Joe Arpaio

I'm the elected sheriff, ... I serve the people. I don't serve the mayor. I don't serve some politicians.

John Young

I'm not trying to be insensitive to other parishes, but I was elected to represent the residents of Jefferson Parish, ... And as long as hurricane season is still open, we have to protect this parish.

In our view, all communities of Iraq have won in these elections, all will have a strong voice in parliament. We hope the elections will be the start of a new process of strength and unity in Iraq.

In preparing for the election we want to equip all our people with their ID documents.

Phil Garner

I just think it would be electric for the city. People are just so wound up.

I love my job, ... And I hope that some day, one of you in this group will be elected to government somewhere.

Andy Roddick

I love playing at night here. The electricity is great.

Mariana Klaveno

I love people who are inches away from completely falling apart. I think that's a fun, electric character to take on.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.

P. J. O'Rourke

Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.

By the time the election is over, the Fed might be in a position to increase rates more aggressively. In 2005, we might see rates going up more than a quarter (percentage point) every other month.

Ilham Aliyev

Before, they used to tell you who to vote for, but not this time, ... The management of the elections is better today.

Ernesto Zedillo

I am sure that in the next weeks and at the end of the electoral race prudence and the fundamental unity of the Mexicans will prevail at the slightest hint of intolerance or illegality,

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.

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,'