Quotes About Local Elections

#1. Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.

Jello Biafra

#2. Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.

Jello Biafra

#3. In last year's local elections in Manchester a third of those who voted did so by post. It's not just that people are choosing to get postal votes, but having one makes it much more likely that they'll vote.

Lucy Powell

#4. I don't think we can go into important local elections next year ... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now.

Frank Dobson

#5. I've campaigned for people. I've campaigned across the country for people. I have supported people in local elections. I do work with groups and causes. So, I feel like I am a participant and a civically-engaged citizen.

Caroline Kennedy

#6. To marvel at the wonders of the gospel is a sign of faith.

Gerald Causse

#7. We all are conditioned to be settled down at 30 and have a job. Women are thinking "Well, when am I having children?" There is a biological clock. There are things that you're thinking about as a woman.

Daryl Wein

#8. Labour long ago realised it could no longer automatically assume that it would win elections in Glasgow and other places where it has taken people's votes for granted for decades - as we have seen across Scotland at local council and Holyrood elections.

Nicola Sturgeon

#9. How do you destroy a devil to save an angel who's torn out her own eyes to believe in only his whispered deceit in her ears?

Bishop Harber

#10. For more than a century, states have sought to protect the integrity of the democratic process at the state and local level by regulating corporate spending in elections.

Eric Schneiderman

#11. The kinds of things I want don't cost money.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#12. I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections.

Edward Brooke

#13. When you have one kid, you feel like you can jet set around, and you can throw him on the hip, and you get your life done. You don't realize how easy one is until you have two. Now I'm really a mom. Oh, I am a mom now! This is for serious - I am responsible for two people now.

Elizabeth Banks

#14. I was alone in this discovery because it was my secret, my private exploration.

Paloma Beck

#15. In the hall of mirrors, you are everywhere. Which is the real you? Find your original Self, the one who perceives all the reflections and is amused by them. Then you will recognize your path and walk it.

Alberto Villoldo

#16. The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.

Virginia Woolf

#17. Outside the door, a teller with a blue rosette chomps on an apple and asks for my number. She smiles a thank you and reveals a ghastly, gaping tunnel of masticated apple, edge with violent mauve lipstick seemingly applied by Bette Davis in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane.

Maddie Grigg

#18. India's national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents, and different patterns of political incumbency.

Shashi Tharoor

#19. Remember the plan?" Hunter asked as they drew closer to their target.

Kristen looked at him sceptically. "'Keep quiet and don't get seen' is not a very professional plan. Did you have anything else to add?

K.S. Marsden

#20. For the ANC to cry 'sabotage' the night before crucial local government elections shows just how desperate they are to disguise their incompetence and mismanagement.

Helen Zille

#21. My mom was always active. She was always an active voter, whether it was local, state, or federal elections. My mom would take us to polling locations when we were kids.

Scarlett Johansson

#22. I have avoided the fate my father planed for me, surely it is I who won not he.

Robin LaFevers

#23. The world is filled with heroes and wannabes, so let me just play the villain.

Ahmed Mostafa

#24. Think there is nothing we can do to change the past, so we have to look at the present to make sure that the past will never repeat itself again.

Heinz Fischer

#25. Well, I got people that help me with the restaurant. I don't have to be at the restaurant 24 hours a day.

Mickey Gilley

#26. Men are like dogs, Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they all took up too much space on the bed, and they always went for the crotch.

Lisa Kleypas