#elect

Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers. ↗

— Jay Leno

#basketball #basketball player #days #election #former

The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#counterparts #elected #elected officials #fed #fed up

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#africa #america #asia #ask #britain

Some of the immediate causes of Jack Abramoff's troubles were some Indian elections that went bad for him. ↗

— Joshua Micah Marshall

#bad #causes #elections #him #immediate

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#challenges #discrimination #eliminating #ending #entirely

I don't want to be typecast as the 'ambient guy' or someone who only does electronic scores. I think most of the work that comes my way is because people feel they know me musically. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#because #comes #does #electronic #feel

C'mon. He'd be embarrassing upstairs at the White House. So I think she'd have a hard time. I think a woman president would have to be very conservative to get elected. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#elected #embarrassing #get #hard #hard time

When you first come into Parliament, it's a daunting place because you feel you've so much to learn. Once you've been re-elected, you feel much more confident. It just gives you a bit of a boost. ↗

— Theresa May

#been #bit #boost #come #confident

I think it's very comforting for people to put me in a box. 'Oh, she's a fluffy girlie girl who likes clothes and cupcakes. Oh, but wait, she is spending her weekends doing hardware electronics.' ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#clothes #comforting #doing #electronics #fluffy

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#certain #contingent #darwin #evolution #merely