Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicola Sturgeon

Parties that win elections should form the government, not parties that lose elections.

Laisenia Qarase

Our latest estimate and time frames for new elections is three years,

Charley Pride

I think they do that not just with the election, but in general.

Yulia Tymoshenko

I think these two teams will go their own way. ... Viktor Yushchenko and I will go to the elections on parallel paths,

That's the way elections are won, a lot of feet on the ground and lots of hard work on the ground.

I think that tomorrow what we are going to have with the elections here, we're going to have a record turnout,

Donald Rumsfeld

I think looking for a peaceful Iraq after the elections would be a mistake, ... I think our expectations level ought to be realistic about that. These folks have a lot to lose.

It is far away from the free and fair elections the government promised.

It is encouraging to note the overwhelming interest by South Africans in voting even after six successive elections.

Jyoti Basu

I don't know why are we having elections in five phases. Maybe because workers and officers of the State have helped us in implementing our policies.

Tommy Franks

I don't know Senator Kerry's plan for victory,

I am expecting more to be happening here. In the elections, employment of people and development are going to be the main issues.

Italian voters are not going to be overly impressed by television footage of Berlusconi with George Bush. The overriding issue in these elections is the economy. In 2001, Italians voted for Berlusconi because he promised they would be better off: actually they feel worse off.

Duncan Hunter

I think the American people have been surprised by the enthusiasm with which the Iraqis have taken to elections and politics.

Here it comes, in time for the elections, the voting statement of the Milan prosecutors' office.

Here, in our territory, the elections will not take place on October 30.

If the elections had taken place in a good way, like the first stage, 35 of those would have won.

We won the elections, but a huge job comes afterward.

Nobody expected (voter turnout) to be higher than the first round, and historically there's not a lot of turnout for legislative elections in Haiti.

Now they (the Palestinians) are having elections and then we will see who will become leader after the election but whoever is leader is the person the European Union will be talking to.

There are only three elections, and they are obviously in very different parts of the state. But we, hopefully, will be able to glean some information from the results of these elections.

She has done a good job insofar as she hasn't made any mistakes. But we'll have to see how she does on the really big reforms after the state elections before we can judge if she is doing well in a positive sense, rather than just not making mistakes.

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.

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.

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

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.

When we took part in the elections we honestly expected to win but we did not expect to win by so much.

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 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.

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.

Why should they stick to a Western timetable? Why hit the elections when they can hit any time they want?