Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gabrielle Giffords

I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.

As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.

the real power ... is not the elected authorities.

David Henry Hwang

There was all this talk when Obama got elected about how we were living in a postracial world. But we're not. Until we get to the point where James Earl Jones can play, say, George Washington, race matters. You wouldn't put a white actor in blackface to play Othello. You shouldn't have a white actor in what amounts to yellowface to play Asian.

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.

Charlie Pierce

In the year of our Lord 2010, the voters of the United States elected the worst Congress in the history of the Republic. There have been Congresses more dilatory. There have been Congresses more irresponsible, though not many of them.

Barton Gellman

As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep Coke's secret recipe on your iPhone.

Barton Gellman

I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.

Ehud Olmert

The question of who will win the elections has already been decided. The test now is whether we will be strong enough to do what we want and for this we need as many seats as possible.

Barbara Lee

The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.

We have to be prepared for an election and I think we are very prepared,

We have set this goal: to win the election.

The participation of many observers allows a more objective evaluation of the elections, from various points of view.

The only thing we learn from a new election is we learned nothing from the old

Elvis Costello

This record may explain what I've been doing during the last 12 years when I haven't had an electric guitar in my hands.

Sylvia Lim

We've been preparing for the elections for some time so we're glad the wait is finally over.

We've been painting and turning on the water for the boaters, making sure those facilities (water and electricity) work so we'll be up and ready for the start of the season.

Alex Berenson

Electronic communications networks match trades between investors directly, without using a market maker or specialist as an intermediary.

A. N. Wilson

If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

Yes, the president is softening his pre-election hard line but I think it is still not enough to revive the peace process.

Ismail Haniyeh

We were elected on a different political agenda.

Ruth Glick

Unfortunately for me, most of the books I'd want to reprint were written for savvy publishers like Harlequin and Berkley who have held on to electronic rights. But I do have another option: Publish new e-books myself.

Finally the elections took place and they are good elections of which all Haitians can be proud.

John C. Calhoun

We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others, is administered by delegated and responsible agents; and that the power which really controls, ultimately, all the movements, is not in the agents, but those who elect or appoint them.

The government in Islamabad must ensure that these elections are open, free and fair.

The government waited until the elections were over and most of the foreign press and observers had gone to kick out one of the few resident foreign journalists.

Tab Ramos

When you get elected into the Hall of Fame, you get elected into a group of elite people who are the top of the top of the game at the professional level. Just to be standing here is an incredible honor for me.

There are indictments, there are charges, there are stories. There's a pay-to-play culture. When elections are about big things, big things can happen.

Andrew Lansley

When you have an election campaign,it has to be simple and something everybody can relate to.

Matt Gonzalez

When you have a democratically elected president of Iran you don't topple him for the Shah. You don't help topple Arbenz in Guatemala. You don't do what we did in Vietnam, etc.

What's important is that this electoral process keep moving forward. The Haitian people have waited too long already, and it's our hope that this process will meet its timetable and that a new government will be inaugurated soon.

We were the first to offer free electronic filing for everyone. We are making people an offer they can't refuse.