Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Jones

Leon has influenced more lives, I think, than probably any single elected official in this region.

Lower prices are hurting utilities and energy companies. Electricity prices are an enormous risk for utilities so we shouldn't be surprised by the response.

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.

Franco Debono

The people are represented in Parliament. Therefore parliamentarians are not party delegates but representatives of the people elected on a party ticket, which is different.

Brendon Urie

I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.

Gore Vidal

I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic.

Justin Trudeau

Canadians want to elect good people to be their voice in Ottawa.

We are having an election that ideologically is probably the most important that we've ever had.

Barack Obama

If you've got a business - you didn't build that.

Brendon Urie

You can create some soul out of something that's electronic or mechanical.

Blanche Lincoln

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

Tom Smith

We're not giving any opinion with regard to what's going on there. We don't know if replacements are permanent or temporary. We don't look into that until after the election occurs, if the election is challenged.

Trade is a nice, battering ram topic in an election year.

Bob Wise

Too often, people get elected to a body, to any office, and the first thing they do is talk about how this year, it's going to be different.

Seamus Heaney

We want the surprise to be transitive like the impatient thump which unexpectedly restores the picture to the television set, or the electric shock which sets the fibrillating heart back to its proper rhythm.

We want the public to have a hands-on experience with these new electronic voting machines so we've planned several demonstrations throughout the county.

Ally Carter

It's not Cam's fault," Bex told her. "We rigged her bed so that if she gets up, I get an electric shock." "Liz designed it," Macey said, and Bex shrugged "We told you we were taking precautions." Of course. Because at Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy".

Ann Coulter

Republicans are afraid to act in accordance with the election results. Republicans seem to be in denial about election results. It's one thing for Democrats to be in denial about the Republican electoral juggernaut, but it's strange that Republicans are in denial about it too.

We are not going to be sore losers but we are human beings. The right of a second round of elections is inscribed in the election rules.

We had no electricity, water or services. One of us would volunteer each week to pick up the garbage and take it away to some nearby Bedouins who would offload the trash if they couldn't keep it.

When you're outspent and you don't have the resources of your opponents, ... you have to run every day like the next day is Election Day.

Eric Clapton

When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.

Nancy Gibbs

I'm wondering how many elected figures any of us could find who do not, in the front or back of their minds, remember who does them favors, who doesn't.

Matthias Platzeck

We're not going to have four years of election campaigning. On the contrary, we'll limit that to the last few months before the election in 2009.

Nadia Ali

Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance the night away to electronic music.

Nan Hayworth

We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The American people, in their own families, they understand that you have to do that. You have to make the tough decisions. You have to get your budget. You have got to put it in order. And they expect their elected officials and their leaders to do likewise.

We actually won the election but I took no joy in seeing the governor humiliated. Let's start anew. We're not looking for another fight.

There are three meetings until the election, and it would take that long, at least, to go into the public and solicit people interested in the position. The more reasonable thing to do is to let the election fill that spot.

Vote in all of the elections, not just for president and governor.

Craig Venter

You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA.

Today we enter the fifth month since the holding of the elections and we still do not have a government. In fact we have not even started the process of forming the government by at least having a prime minister.