Positive Election Quotes & Sayings

Who knows the entire truth and who can speak about this creation ? What were the causative factors of this creation ? The gods have originated after the creation. Who knows the one from which this world has got created ? ( 10/129/6 ) — Ajay Shukla

Anybody who imagines that an election can be won under these circumstances by banging on about William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright is ... to put it mildly ... severely under-estimating the electoral importance of pocketbook issues. We conservatives are sending a powerful, inadvertent message with this negative campaign against Barack Obama's associations and former associations: that we lack a positive agenda of our own and that we don't care about the economic issues that are worrying American voters. — David Frum

Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt. — P. J. O'Rourke

It is positive that the change in Finland means a rush in the elections and not in the streets. — Tarja Halonen

I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election. — Walt Whitman

After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children. — Herb Kohl

We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people. — Chen Shui-bian

Learning" and "Performance" are key fundamental themes of better organizational governance. — Pearl Zhu

[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure. — Norman Tebbit

I like living in the 20th century ... to me the world has never been more beautiful. I am trying to paint the real world I live in, as beautifully as I can with my own eyes. — Jeffrey Smart

You might consider that you yourself are an arrogant person or you might consider that someone else is an arrogant person, but everybody who has ever felt even a moment of arrogance knows that arrogance is just a cover-up for really feeling that you're the worst horse, and always trying to prove otherwise. — Pema Chodron

The great point guards make everybody else better. — Stephon Marbury

Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God". — Stephen Hawking

The Calvinistic system involves a positive truth: the election to eternal life by free grace, and the negative inference: the reprobation to eternal death by arbitrary justice. The former is the strength, the latter is the weakness of the system. The former is practically accepted by all true believers; the latter always has been, and always will be, repelled by the great majority of Christians. — Philip Schaff

If the heart that matches the beat of your own comes in the body of a man, so be it. Doesn't change anything. You're the same man you were yesterday. Better, even. — L.C. Chase

The American world had - seemingly, at least - become a Jeffersonian world by the election of 1800, which placed Thomas Jefferson in the presidency. Jefferson had been Hamilton's rival in the new government's early years, and Hamilton has figured in the public memory almost as much for that rivalry as for his positive achievements. — Edmund Morgan