Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Salmond

Their whole by-election plan is in tatters, which is no surprise because everything Mr McConnell puts his fingers on usually collapses or turns to dust.

The fact the OSCE is criticizing the elections in Azerbaijan will help strengthen the position of the Azeri opposition.

There used to be an iron law that governments won or lost elections on the strength of the economy,

The negative side of this (election) is that nothing is going to happen until the elections are over.

Judy Woodruff

After the midterm elections, Karl jumped from being prime minister to king.

Initiatives tend to shape turnout substantially in non-presidential elections.

Bob Bennett

in light of Tuesday's elections, the prevailing White House view is, let's see what happens.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

No matter what the outcome of the election, we have to sit down and talk, ... This place is ready to boom. It could be another Gold Rush here. So let's start putting a program together for infrastructure that's really big thinking ? like landing a man on the moon kind of vision. Big.

Nothing has been announced. We still have to get over the elections and see what happens then and what the (new) government of Iraq wants,

I want to reaffirm that after the election, we will stage protracted protests until the prime minister resigns.

The United Nations is of the view that these elections were transparent and credible.

is no longer a partner we can trust, and we want new elections, preferably as soon as possible. It's gone far enough with all this bickering. It's time to let the people speak.

This is the office that's supposed to put on elections all the time, so I don't see how they overlooked that.

This is a very special election. At stake is whether Ukraine has passed the point of no return to its so recent authoritarian past.

I hope elections will take place well before 12 months ... that is a job I will entrust to my new prime minister whom we will name in a few days,

I really haven't been keeping up with the elections.

David Anders

I promised the governor I would get him a radio station before the (Sept. 18) elections,

Stephen Harper

It has fallen off because we're in the summer and not having an election,

Iraqis in the street are saying that the Shiite-dominated government planned it that way. The elections gave people hope for an improved life, but immediately after the vote, the quality of life declined.

If there is one threat to the holding of elections as scheduled, it is the security situation.

If there are demonstrations, they will be sabotaging the elections,

If there's somebody who really lost the elections, it's the exit polls.

Iowa has become not just a state important in the primaries, but important to the general election.

Jacques Rogge

I'm very happy with the way the elections have been handled ... putting the interests of the IOC before personal interests.

In essence these are multi-party elections in a one-party state.

In our view, all communities of Iraq have won in these elections, all will have a strong voice in parliament. We hope the elections will be the start of a new process of strength and unity in Iraq.

Ilham Aliyev

Before, they used to tell you who to vote for, but not this time, ... The management of the elections is better today.

But we do not see much headway in this regard before general elections are held next year. We will raise the six-day work issue again.

You don't have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected.

All elections revolve around and are often resolved by who raises the most money. That's unfair. I'd like to see that process changed, but it seems once you win and get to Congress, that doesn't happen.

Any incumbent running for re-election that needs our support will get it.

As far back as we go ... it's the lowest for any kind of election, and I think it's the lowest since 1920 when women got the vote.

Rather than waste the taxpayers' dollars, I would rather wait till the regular elections in November.