Congressional Elections Quotes

#1. I also believe that if we're serious about change, we need to have a real discussion about public financing for congressional elections.

Barack Obama

#2. We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.

Larry J. Sabato

#3. In my opinion, we need to again consider the possibility of public funding of congressional elections, following the very successful experience with clean money systems in Maine and Arizona.

Russ Feingold

#4. I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.

Julian Bond

#5. As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.

Octavio Paz

#6. If you want to have love, you have to open your heart and give love.

Bill Ferguson

#7. My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.

Roz Chast

#8. Now that the midterm elections are over, President Obama has invited congressional leaders from both parties to a meeting at the White House tomorrow. When asked if he's nervous, Obama said, 'Oh, I'm not going to be there. I just invited them over. They can figure it out themselves.'

Jimmy Fallon

#9. A placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised trial of boys with autism found that two to three servings of cruciferous vegetables a day improves social interaction, abnormal behaviour and verbal communication - within a matter of weeks.

Michael Greger

#10. The savages don't have atom bombs.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#11. We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.

Sam Brownback

#12. I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous.

Alex Colville

#13. Men fear most what they cannot see.

Liam Neeson

#14. I am not concerned with verisimilitude ... I am not concerned with capturing reality. I am concerned with creating it myself.

Tracey Moffatt

#15. Etho thought about the last ten orbits of the sun and looked at Guude, "I should have stayed in the forest.

Stampy Miner

#16. Everything about it was false. Right then, in that office, with the realization that no one knew the truth about my life, my thoughts about the world were shaken.

Jay Asher

#17. I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving someone another person's prescription. How do you know that's what they need?

Sandra Cisneros

#18. It is bad religion to deify doctrines and creeds ... Doctrines, let's not forget, supported slavery and apartheid ... Moreover, doctrines can divide while compassion can only unite.

William Sloane Coffin

#19. Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate.

Dolly Parton

#20. Yeah, it had a blah, blah, blah, with its blahdity, blah, blah. Then there was the blah, blah blah." Of course, he used words for the "blah blahs", but I didn't understand a single one of them.

Kristen Ashley