Queen Noor of Jordan Quotes

Increasingly, campaigns have become narcotics that blur our awareness of problems long enough to elect the lawmakers who must deal with them.

I expect that after the election and the results that the international community will understand which was the framework of this process and under which law we have done this process.

One of the reasons why voters are turned off is the process [of modern presidential campaigns].

You've got to lose a few [elections] before you learn what the American system is all about.

In campaigns we concentrate on the differences [between the candidates.]

It was a very unusual year [2015]. You usually don't have five campaigns operating full time in a state this late into the process, three states in. But I feel great that now that the choices have become less and less, more and more that new voter or alternative to Donald Trump vote, is going to coalesce around us.

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

The American system is, in many ways, more difficult, certainly far more expensive and much longer than a parliamentary system, and I really admire the people who subject themselves to it. Even when I, you know, think they should not be elected president, I still think, well, you know, good for you I guess, you're out there promoting democracy and those crazy ideas of yours.

Twenty-one years ago today Saddam Hussein was first elected president of Iraq and he has been re-elected ever since. Apparently they have the same electoral process we do, you don't need the popular vote to win.

I believe in having a vision for the future but living each day at a time.

It is important that voters be as informed as possible when they enter the polls May 9 to determine who has the experience, integrity and vision to lead Nebraska to excellence.

I feel they should be discussed informally, truthfully, honestly, and in some cases, I think, without forgetting ... long-term vision. They should be practical.

I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.

I do think that campaigns are about electing somebody, but they're also about a discussion of the future of our country.

As much as I cherish your [McCarthy's] right to a platform as an independent candidate I am not going to sit here quietly and listen to you denigrate the two party system. It has served our country well over the last two hundred years.

I'm angry that George Bush got to be in the White House, and I'm angry that [Al] Gore wasn't able to be a better candidate after eight years of a great economy and being an incumbent.

Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today's high tech society.

There is a very long list of parties in this year's election, some of the parties I have never heard of.

Life is amazingly unpredictable; any 22-year-old who thinks they know where they will be in 10 years, much less in 30, is simply lacking imagination.

I think Super Tuesday is the most important day of this entire primary election. It is the most delegates awarded in a single night will be awarded on Super Tuesday.

I just have a vision of something, and it seems to go a long way. One thought goes a long way.

People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.

Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does.

Campaigns are conducted specifically because of the Electoral College, and people accept it and they understand it. Whether they know it or not, they accept it.