Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mitch Landrieu

We need three things now. We need a house. We need a school and we need a job. This is the most important election in the city's history.

The President has been elected for a six-year term. The mandate was won fair and square in the election in 2004 and the mandate stays until 2010.

The premier didn't mean to say that there would be national elections for senators this fall. He clarified (to me) that there would be discussions this fall on Senate elections.

We are in favor of elections and we are in favor of toppling the government but we will not join the extreme right in toppling the government over the peace process, ... We don't want to punish the government for the pullout from Gaza and I don't think we should hitch a ride on the extreme Right.

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.

Paul Parker

Though we had a good sales tax year, it's not enough to offset electric and fuel bills. We don't want to raise property taxes. We're looking at other growth to pay these bills.

We don't have enough electricity because we don't have enough power stations.

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.

David Milne

We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics.

Benazir Bhutto

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

Bob Kerrey

It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election.

Gary Numan

There does seem to be a kind of split. There are those people who are more entrenched in the early electronic years, and new people who have come to it because of people like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.

Writing in the electronic world, you imagine a sound, and then you have to go and find it. It's not like imagining a flute and then making that sound materialize. That's easy!

James Lee

What a judge might order is out of the jurisdiction of an elections office.

We found ourselves with no water, electricity or phone for weeks. We needed to rebuild the entire infrastructure.

We felt it was important that we introduced what will ultimately be part of our election platform. We know that we're a ways from an election, but we just think that Manitobans need to know that there's an alternative out there in terms of making our communities safer.

What's new is the electronic media and the sheer volume of it was exceptional.

Unless the public is satisfied that the election process has been done fairly and the winner has won fair and square, there's a real question about how the next president will govern, whoever he is.

Unfortunately, I really don't see much by way of the election in the fall.

Carlos Ghosn

Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.

We want to put the outside electric service underground, and it took three months to get a state permit for the 5-foot run.

We have no electricity, no public water that is safe to drink, and no telephones in most areas.

We're hoping he was just misquoted, ... The elections will push through whatever the threat.

We're not a heavy user of energy. You may start to see an impact on electricity (rates) because we use gas for generation plants.

Martin Chalfie

We know what molecules are needed to sense light - what turns that signal that detects light into an electrical signal. We know how smells are detected. But we have a vast number of senses for which we know what the signal is, but we don't know what the receiver is.

Vermont Yankee supplies one-third of the state's electrical energy, and we want that supply to remain available,

Lee Kuan Yew

Freedom of the news media must be subordinated to the overriding needs of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.

I went through all my electric bills, the water bills, the phone bills, elevator contracts, and I found enough wasteful spending without reducing any programs anywhere, without reducing any services, I found enough wasteful spending to pay my entire salary for three years.