All Quotes

Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate discourages the speech that triggers the matching funds.
‐‐ Bradley A. Smith

Elections are about choices, and part of what you do is draw that contrast.
‐‐ Elizabeth Esty

Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks.
‐‐ Ted Kulongoski

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.
‐‐ Anne Campbell

Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy.
‐‐ Shashi Tharoor

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.
‐‐ Gerald F. Lieberman

Elections are rarely perfect.
‐‐ Richard Holbrooke

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
‐‐ Franklin Pierce Adams

Elections aren't about records, they're about plans and choices.
‐‐ David Cameron

Elections do have consequences, and those we elect and far too often re-elect have forgotten how government works and for whom they work for, and that an ever growing, power hungry state and federal government are not the answer to the problem, but 80% of the time are the problem.
‐‐ David Pratt

Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

Elections have consequences.
‐‐ Scott Walker

Elections have consequences. So many people want to complain, but they don't want to vote. We can talk about Hillary Clinton. We can celebrate her; we can support her, but if we don't come out and vote for her, for shame.
‐‐ Cory Booker

Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They 'want' that. And it's good policy.
‐‐ Gail Collins

Elections in India are not contests between personalities. They are ultimately battles involving political parties; promises and pledges that political parties make; the vision and programmes that political parties bring to the table. So although, Modi's style is 'I, me, myself,' I don't think 2014 elections as a Modi versus Rahul contest.
‐‐ Jairam Ramesh

Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

Elective office and public service are obviously something that have long ties with my family, and something I'm definitely interested in.
‐‐ Joseph P. Kennedy III

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.
‐‐ John Podhoretz

Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.
‐‐ Bobby Seale

Electoral turnout is falling among the young, and political apathy is on the rise.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim

Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
‐‐ Vinod Khosla

Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
‐‐ Carlos Ghosn

Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.
‐‐ Carlos Ghosn

Electric cars are really very cool. Air-source heat pumps are great.
‐‐ David J. C. MacKay

Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.
‐‐ Alexandra Paul

Electric red hair is more for, like, people in their 20s and early 30s.
‐‐ Scott Weiland

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.
‐‐ Nikola Tesla

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.
‐‐ Nikola Tesla

Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded.
‐‐ Tim Allen

Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.
‐‐ Erik Brynjolfsson

Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.
‐‐ Lamar S. Smith

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.
‐‐ Stephen Leacock

Electricity is really just organized lightning.
‐‐ George Carlin

Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.
‐‐ Janet Frame

Electricity transmission operates on a frequency between 49.7 Hertz and 50.2 Hertz. What I have done is petitioned the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission and squeezed this band to now 49.9 Hertz to 50.1 Hertz. This will contain volatility.
‐‐ Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia

Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.
‐‐ Chris Lowe

Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration.
‐‐ Gregory Benford

Electronic Accounting Systems processed my little payrolls like one big payroll. I did the selling, and the people I hired did most of the operations.
‐‐ Tom Golisano

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

Electronic books are junk.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

Electronic communications networks match trades between investors directly, without using a market maker or specialist as an intermediary.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing.
‐‐ Dick Cavett

Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
‐‐ Rudy Rucker

Electronic medical records are, in a lot of ways, I think the aspect of technology that is going to revolutionize the way we deliver care. And it's not just that we will be able to collect information, it's that everyone involved in the healthcare enterprise will be able to use that information more effectively.
‐‐ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

Electronic music has definitely taken over America. There is more and more interaction with hip hop.
‐‐ Thomas Bangalter

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.
‐‐ Luc Ferrari