London Assembly Election

Famous quotes containing the words london, assembly and/or election:

    “I don’t care very much for literary shrines and haunts ... I knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle’s yard. And when I said, “Why throw a stone into Carlyle’s yard?” she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.”
    —Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)

    “Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

    “In every election in American history both parties have their clichés. The party that has the clichés that ring true wins.”
    —Newt Gingrich (b. 1943)