Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Lee

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

What has been made clear to the world and the people of Pakistan is that under the present regime general elections in 2007 cannot be free, fair and transparent.

We believe very strongly that what occurred in this case was intentional, knowing wrongdoing because both the Republican Party and the supervisor of elections knew exactly what they were doing.

We're going to look at the Elections Enforcement Commission, how they operated, what they did with the governor's campaign and that may open facts and information beyond just the Elections Enforcement Commission ? issues such as were they pressured into making a settlement agreement.

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.

Ariel Sharon

(U.S.) President (George W.) Bush's framework will be brought to the government I intend to form after the elections for approval, and I will work with all my strength to make it as broad a unity government as possible,

We refuse to accept the results from these so-called elections. We will not accept (the winners) as representatives of the people and will not allow them to take their positions.

We refuse to accept the results from these so-called elections.

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

Josh Wright

We're not a criminal court. We're making decisions for the administration of elections.

William Shakespeare

Leave us to our free election.

The possibility for error, and the willingness of people to challenge those errors, are both growing every day. And that could have tremendous impact on elections in 2006 and beyond.

Ivica Dacic

We believe that there are more important things on the nation's agenda than the elections, but if the opposition wants that, so be it. We are ready.

Robert Shaw

There is no point in pushing toward municipal or general elections in Nepal. First, there needs to be a democratic process.

There is no more important issue than the purity of elections in this state, ... And I will tell ... the court that the elections are not pure.

With this letter, the government has bowed to the people's demand for holding fair elections.

We've tried to duplicate the problem but haven't been able to. We haven't had problems with the systems in the five elections we've used it, but we're concerned about what caused this.

This will no doubt give protectionists in Congress some ammunition as the mid term elections approach.

We did everything we could to make sure these elections were free and fair and believe that they were.

Well before this happened, I was glad the '06 elections weren't being held this summer. The country's in a funk, and it was in a funk before Katrina. But there's a great deal of time for that mood to change.

The referendum on the constitution and the elections at the end of December are the most important aspects of what we're doing now.

Noah Hawley

I think the age of the modern media campaign has created a new icon, the celebrity-in-chief. Political elections have become wars fought by candidates with opposing values.

We're quite convinced the elections will be held on schedule and will unfold, we hope, with no incidents so that everyone can make their choice democratically and freely.

Ukraine that existed before the elections no longer exists. It has been split up into two sides with absolutely opposite opinions,

We have no intention of taking any measures that would harm the population of Belarus if a decision is taken to undertake further restrictive measures. Those measures would be targeted on those who are deemed to be responsible for elections which have been judged not to be free and fair.

We have no doubt that the elections in Belarus were not free. There are some 7,000 polling stations in Belarus, but representatives of opposition candidates were allowed to be election commission members at only three stations, which prevented them from monitoring the vote.

Whenever the United States came to Syria asking us for assistance, on issues they wanted our assistance ... we immediately engaged with the United States. This has included our support for the elections in Iraq, our securing the borders. We have done everything possible to secure the borders between Syria and Iraq.

Ayman Nour

We accept only the results of free and fair elections, and we won't accept results of rigged elections. ... We have seen examples of forgery ... we hold the NDP (ruling party) responsible in front of God for forging the elections.

We altered the rotation of units during the January elections, and I think its perfectly plausible we'll do the same thing for these elections.

Robert Barry

Pluralism has won today. I believe these elections represent a significant step forward in the process of democratization and pluralization of Bosnia.

Popular web site Softpedia.com picked up our news story and ran with it, ... This was one of the hottest - if not the most talked about - celebrity events of the past several days and as we learned long ago with the Academy Awards and US Presidential Elections - just to name a few - people will bet on these pop and political prop offerings.

Only when we fulfil (our promises) will people vote us back time after time. We go into the local government elections with a plan to make local government work even better than before.