Famous Quotes & Sayings

Young people will typically show up in larger numbers in national elections, when they perceive the stakes to be higher.

Colin Powell

This is election season. They're even having elections in Iraq. Saddam Hussein won,

This is an unprecedented election. That's why there is so much of it we can't speculate on.

Steve Davis

They had a 2-1 advantage, and they took her off the ballot, ... What they have done is entered the twilight of election law.

They'd just as soon sit on the sidelines in an election year, but they will do what they have to do, and they have moved in other election seasons.

There will be a lot of talk, but not a lot of position taking until the election results are known.

There will be absentee balloting by mail that runs right up to the day before Election Day.

It seems like for only six months, every two years right around election time that we're even noticed." ()

Herman Cain

999 ... I can explain it in a minute

Gore Vidal

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action...

Gabe Newell

Greenlight is a bad example of an election process. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could just do away with Greenlight completely, because it was a bottleneck rather than a way for people to communicate choice.

Felix Frankfurter

After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants, in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.

He's mad at me for being in his ward on Election Day.

Joschka Fischer

Germany is going to vote for the resolution. It is important now to stick to the schedule that is to lead to free and fair elections by January 2005 at the latest.

Everything has been going on normally, the election has not been postponed anywhere. At some places there has been a good turnout, but at some it has been bad.

Everything is ruled by the election cycle, ... You don't want to be looking for an administrator at the same time you're trying to focus on getting reelected.

David Johnston

Even if we don't win elections, we are talking policy.

Berlusconi like Napoleon? Then the election will be his Waterloo.

Every job is a job that we're going to celebrate. But we think this has been too long in coming. The weather is getting warm and the construction season is getting ready to start in an election year, and the governor is getting ready to make up for three years of mismanagement on roads.

Jonathan Martin

Every election we get bigger. We've seen a tremendous surge, especially this year, as far as interest goes.

The most important thing for them is to go to the polling stations to test their real power and to train their members in preparation for the parliamentary elections (later this year).

John Breaux

The most important speech of this election is ... going to be given by the loser when they concede because it will set the tone for the next four years,

Jim Bolger

So to that extent that was a very sharp reminder a few months out from the election that we weren't performing in the eyes of the public to the level that they wanted if they were going to re-elect us. So we went out and were much more upfront on issues.

Nowadays, with the electronic voting systems, you don't know what even looks suspicious if you're an elections official. You need people who understand software and software security to understand what the risks are.

The system has been used over hundreds of elections and performed extremely well. It's been consistently found to not only be safe and secure, but also accurate.

I've lost faith in the process. The inordinate number of mistakes that have occurred in this election should make everyone concerned.

I voted for Darryl Clare in the last election.

Hosni Mubarak

These elections come at a turning point in the history of our country, which is facing new challenges,

Alcee Hastings

These elections can only be described as free and fair.

The security concerns, specially in view of the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Afghanistan was also discussed.

The spirit of Proposition 34 was to get more people involved in elections, but obviously multiple millionaires have their own rules.

Jim Simpson

A vote was undertaken, the whole election process was paid for. Now after the fact, they make this challenge.

As long as we run elections under the same set of conditions, there is no way that elections will be free and fair.