Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Newman

Organizations that have been granted tax-exempt status ought not endorse specific candidates for public office. What we have in Odessa, what some people actually seem to be proud of, is an ongoing problem with separating the prerogatives of church and state.

Wayne Clough

Our search has been thorough and complete. Every name was put into a pot, and Dan was unanimously chosen. There was a strong pool of candidates for this position. We have left no stone unturned and have considered candidates from around the nation, from a range of institutions and from nontraditional sources.

Cyrus Mehri

Our focus for the future is OK; now we've improved the process -- minority candidates are in the room being interviewed. Our next question is, when the doors close, and the owner makes the decision, who's in that inner circle?

Craig McDonald

Overall, I think the voters spoke pretty loudly that they like the independence of their own hand-picked candidates over a billionaire from San Antonio.

Karen Roberts

Really, it's the foundation of democracy. Any citizen can go to the precinct convention, take an issue or a concern, and ultimately take it to the state party and in other years all the way to the national party and the presidential candidates themselves.

Piero Grasso

Making those under investigation candidates could send a message that the mafia appreciates, a message of impunity, a challenge to the justice system.

Rudi Giuliani

I think they want real candidates who really tell people what they think, and are actually willing to lose rather than distort their position,

Regina Lewis

It is a more personal medium than a lot of people give it credit for. Keep in mind, you are six inches from your computer. You are very focused. The candidates have one shot to make an impression.

Jack Siedlecki

I think there?s a lot of viable candidates and a lot of times they look at somebody that?s done more, shown more ... It?s a real commitment for a kid, in the short term, to come back for a fifth year. And I think that makes an impression on (the players).

C. S. Lewis

The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing all personal privacy and independence. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

Carrie Chapman Catt

The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation to the ideals which won independence.

Becky Huckaby

Just because we had Independence in the market, we didn't stop looking for (another) low-fare carrier.

Marsha Blackburn

The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself.

Jon Oringer

I think that initial independence is very important; that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

Boris Kodjoe

I think that women need men and that men need women and we need each other and that independence and meeting somebody is not mutually exclusive.

Rory Bremner

Like millions of Scots, I've agonised over whether to go for independence or remain with the Union.

Karen Morgan

We won't get independence this time, but we are on our way.

Ayn Rand

The genius must have his freedom and his independence.

Emily Lau

I think the people have spoken very loudly and clearly,

Thomas Campbell

Our bugles sang truce - for the night-cloud had lowered, / And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky.

Andy Hernandez

Most of (the protests) are immigrant-driven marches. That's why you haven't had any big ones in San Antonio.

Bill Engvall

I was sitting on a plane that is traveling towards Seattle. And the guy next to me turns and says to me Hey, you going to Seattle?. Nope, San Francisco... I'll be parachuting off in about an hour. Here's your sign!

Cecil Beaton

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities

Kendyl Jacox

I think there will be relief. I'm not saying you want it to be over, but this has been a long season. I've been through a 1-15 season (in San Diego) before, and it hasn't been this bad. I wouldn't wish this on anybody.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I worked for 'The Chronicle' in San Francisco, and immigration is a big issue in that region.

Robert Scoble

I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them!

Keith Stanfield

I was born in San Bernardino in summer of '91 and grew up in Riverside, San Bernardino, and Victorville.

Randy Cretors

If we don't play San Benito, I'd probably get fired.

Sachin Tendulkar

I think I have already spoken a lot. Now it is time for me to play.

Roy Makaay

I have already spoken to him about Bayern.

Charles Osgood

Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.

Alain Wertheimer

I spoke to the 'Wine Spectator' because that's PR; that's how you sell wine.

Nadine Gordimer

Too much will be speculated about him, too much spoken about him, too much written about him,

Annie Besant

The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta.

Alison Bechdel

What would happen if we spoke the truth?

Arne Glimcher

Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.

Warren Cowan

I spoke with him yesterday and he's doing great. He should be out in a day or two.

Steve Southerland

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

Judy Davis

I feel like the voters made their decision.

Bob Mulholland

Voters want to know, 'What are you going to do for me in office?' That's what it's about.

Mark McKinnon

Voters are looking for credibility and are wary of polish. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter which candidate can more deftly read a teleprompter.

Charles Rangel

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.

Lindsey Graham

We're going to need those voters in the fall.

Bill Nye

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

John DeVilbiss

If you don't put it on as continuing, you'll have to be back to the voters all the time.

Jack Germond

Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.