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If referendum comes and any programs have to be cut, I hold every one of you who voted for this responsible.

John Kauffman

We are not the athletic boosters or anything like that. Our goal is to inform the public of the truth behind the school referendum.

Jonathon Mietzner

Our aim was always to reach a consensus to ensure a victory in the referendum.

Hajim Al hasani

I think they've really honored the spirit of Referendum C and what the voters wanted.

Bob Stovall

Our region shall be formed at the desire and request of the people through a referendum as enshrined in the constitution. Our main challenge now is to establish a secure atmosphere in the center, the south and other parts of Iraq.

Abdul Aziz Hakim

What's a joke? ... The referendum is non-binding. You object to an ordinance being introduced to make that binding?

John Szabo

A referendum ...by High Point residents would certainly be a guiding force.

Gary Adams

I would like to get a firm price so we can get it before the voters in a referendum in November.

Norman Goldblum

In this respect, I have called before these attacks for halting these operations so that people will not believe the attacks are aimed at preventing them from participating in the referendum.

Hajim Al hasani

Advocacy is not only a direct appeal to someone to vote in favor or against, but also includes campaigning for the referendum by describing it in positive terms ... or by describing dire consequences if the referendum does not pass.

Ari Rosenthal

We hope that the lessons learned in the January election and the referendum will enable them to perform even better.

Ashraf Qazi

The state wants us to do the referendum before any decisions are made.

Barry Miller

The result is clear, the government is deeply disappointed by the referendum result.

Bertie Ahern

She has made this a referendum on herself, ... I expect to be on the search committee for a new CEO. This time around we do not want someone learning on the job.

Walter Hewlett

It is money we weren't entitled to or are not entitled to. It is a lack of knowing where you are at and being able to make prudent financial decisions that is costly. You end up running a 55-cent referendum, when what you needed was maybe a 15-cent referendum because your information is flawed.

Tony Quagliano

We want others to know that the debate is not over and we want another referendum in due course.

John Warhurst

It's actually unlikely that the Paisley campaign can win, in the sense that it can prevent this referendum (from) being passed.

Paul Bew

This referendum is not going to be the turning point that solves everything, but it will take things to the next step. The good news is that there will be a next step with the elections.

Judith Yaphe

We need a great deal more clarity before we're willing to talk about a referendum.

John Mackenzie

Those things have really been put on the back burner of everybody's mind in dealing with the referendum. We're going to get financial things squared away and get back to the business of education.

Shawn Green

Health costs, energy costs, all those things came together like a perfect storm and now the districts really have no choice but to go to referendum.

John Ashley

We are going to continue until the government intelligently decides to call a referendum.

Luis Macas

No Arab country has done to its citizens what you (Sharon) are doing ... Before expelling people from their homes such a plan should pass an election or a referendum.

Benzi Lieberman

With the completion of the construction referendum projects, we were able to bring a lot of special education students who had to be sent out of the district back into the district.

Schools Dennis Mack

I think we will eventually need to have an operating budget referendum but the problem is I don't think voters will go for it until we've changed how we handle the budget that we have.

Lucy Mathiak

I will support this project until after the referendum, but if the people decide against it, I will go with the people.

Wayne Gray

There could even be a double election for both houses, cast as a referendum on constitutional revisions.

Yasunori Sone

This midterm election is really a referendum on the war, it's a referendum on the Bush policies.

Michael Berg

People haven't heard that (reassessment) mentioned as a consideration in this bond referendum.

Don Long

The question of the euro should be resolved through a referendum, which could take place in 2010.

Lech Kaczynski

I'm not very optimistic of the options that we are left with if this referendum is not passed.

Dave Obrzut

The referendum will boil down to a fundamental debate on the future of this great state. The referendum campaign will be a choice between those who support the status quo versus those who believe in greater economic prosperity.

Bill Becker

The (Sunni) bloc should now convene a general conference to decide how to proceed. Boycotting the referendum and parliamentary elections (in December) would be a lose-lose proposition. Our hope will be in the next parliament that will hopefully be more balanced than this one.

Sadoun Zubaydi

If there's a referendum that says you might be put out of business, that doesn't give them a lot of confidence in a 15-year loan.

Jack Bishop

Mayor Honea, since the town clerk did not accept this, will you and the town accept this referendum?

David Morales

Class expansion has been one of those issues over the past decade that has repeatedly been brought to the forefront by member schools. However, until the membership was polled in the recent advisory referendum, there hadn't been the kind of support to warrant such an expansion.

Marty Hickman

If concessions are made to the Sunnis to make additions to the constitution, then the other parties want a guarantee from the Sunnis that they will vote back the constitution at the referendum. But there are no guarantees.

Mahmoud Othman

It was very appropriate. I couldn't imagine how we could be shut out of our rights to a referendum because of a mistake in the minutes. It just seems unfair and inappropriate.

Julia Robinson

When we get to our referendum, nobody will be talking about the Danish referendum.

Goeran Persson

A similar decision by the government coalition would allow the referendum process to begin immediately, under the best auspices and with the full backing of the European Union.

Christina Gallach

Following the results of the referendum, it has become necessary for me, as the President of the Republic, to reorganize my government to make it more cohesive and better able to serve the people of Kenya.

Mwai Kibaki

I really don't like the referendum route when it goes after the governance of the town.

Bill Brooks

This is something we do every year since we built this building (middle school). We made this promise to the taxpayers when we asked for the referendum.

Mike Holt

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

Ambrose Bierce

I do not by any means believe the initiative, the referendum, and the recall are the panacea for all our political ills, yet they do give to the electorate the power of action when desired, and they do place in the hands of the people the means by which they may protect themselves.

Hiram Johnson

When I saw what the Madison referendum said, it was a gut check for me.

William Richardson

It's just a bad bond referendum.

Rod Benfield

However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

Chen Shui bian

But we will be forced to war if the Legislative Yuan or a referendum approves a new constitution.

Xu Shiquan

A 6-5 vote was -- you really can't take that to the public. We felt that referendum was doomed to fail.

Rick Caporale

In order to have a better chance for success on this referendum, we needed to pare it back to just critical needs.

Pam Edwards

If the Democratic Organization has accepted donations from Jack Morris, how can the freeholders award tax-dollar subsidies for this project? To avoid this impropriety, they should let the voter decide on the use of revenue by a referendum.

Andrew Tidd

This constitution is full of mines that are going to explode. The articles stipulated in this constitution will have grave consequences if they are submitted to a referendum. This constitution will lead to a weak Iraq that is unable to defend itself.

Saleh Mutlak

So the mention of split shifts and/or classes being held in hallways may be construed as intending to threaten 'dire consequences' by not voting for the referendum.

Ari Rosenthal

Once people have the constitution, the idea is they should be able to engage with it before the referendum.

Nicholas Haysom

Security was very good at the (constitutional) referendum in October and they have built on that.

Ashraf Qazi

This will ensure the district will maintain its balanced budget if the referendum fails March 21.

Tom Hay

I have full confidence in the capacity of the PQ to renew itself and I am convinced that the current leadership race will allow our rank-and-file members to elect as leader the person who will lead us to electoral victory and, especially, a victorious referendum.

Bernard Landry

I would hope that as we go through the political process, the referendum and the next set of elections in December, it will become clear how secure the political machinery in Iraq is becoming.

Michael Walker

There's no longer a barrier for counties to purchase electronic voting systems even if they have not had a referendum.

Allison Hrestak

We will do our best to make sure this draft fails at the referendum.

Adnan Dulaimi

Now we sit down, and we realize we're not going to have that money. We'd be hard-pressed to go back to the people again on this referendum.

Tim Baldermann

I don't think I need to explain to anybody down here the future of this room we are sitting in depends on the passage of this referendum.

Mark Cavanaugh

Why did you let us take out the referendum then? It should have been blocked, ... I spent a lot of time on these petitions. You can't give out paperwork that you can't accept.

David Morales

In 2001, Project 70 was annexed through a court order. But there is only one way to annex property in Pennsylvania, and that is through a referendum.

Larry Loperfito

Until we're done with this political process here with the referendum and the elections in December, I think it's too soon to tell.

George Casey

He (City Auditor Bill Morrissey) should not have the power to deprive those people of voting on the referendum.

David Carroll

We have to look at all areas. I have to plan for a $218,000 deficit. The referendum could fail. If it does, I've got to have the budget balanced.

Ron Vaughn

The primary security for this referendum and the national election ... will be provided for by Iraqi security forces.

John Vines

Since the referendum on the EU constitution, Chirac has been in a much weakened position, and it has become obvious he is not really in the running for another term as president.

Bruno Jeanbart

We expect that the enemies will increase their attacks, particularly as we run up to the referendum.

Joseph Taluto

It becomes a gaming issue only when and if the Legislature passes the bill, and it becomes a referendum in Kanawha, Ohio, Hancock, and Jefferson counties.

John Cavacini

The president is always somewhere on the horizon in any midterm election, and in this one it might very well be more than the usual referendum on the president. Bush could be a heavy shadow in this election.

Mickey Edwards

It's not that I don't care about what people think, I just don't think it sets a good precedent. Every time you make a decision, I don't think you should have to go to a referendum question.

Tony Kennedy

There was 80 percent support for the referendum from eligible permit holders.

Rick Leard

By interdicting foreign fighters flowing in from the Syrian border, the operation will also serve as a way to provide security for the upcoming referendum.

Jeffrey Pool

I would say we're looking at an incumbent who is probably one of the most vulnerable in Connecticut and in the Northeast. I do think it is a referendum on the war.

Gary Rose

There was not the support among the council members (for one referendum package) - that's the bottom line.

Larry Pleasant

At this stage, I don't think I fall on either side of the referendum.

David Hutter

Algeria's youth need jobs, not a referendum. I am also against the idea of forgiving killers.

Ahmed Kennache

Something will have to happen in the form of a referendum or a significant increase in the power plant value.

Superintendent Jeffrey Holmes

It's particularly ironic that teachers are being forced to pay for the union's opposition to a referendum to give teachers a choice about whether the union can spend their money for politics.

Stefan Gleason

The FF Plus is convinced that the voter day on March 1 is an ideal opportunity to also hold a referendum on those issues that are closest to the heart of Pretoria residents.

Pieter Mulder

The money was set aside for us, but the stipulation was that we had to hold a referendum first. If we didn't act now, we'd lose the money because the SCC would be entitled to give it to another school district with a successful referendum.

Doug Adams

What blows me out of the water is that we have to have the choices and the bonding in the same referendum.

Dave Baron

As we get closer to the referendum, just as we saw at the beginning of the year going toward the (January 30) election, it's always expected that they (insurgents) will increase their activities to try to cause intimidation and fear in those who would go out to vote.

Steve Boylan

Algeria's youth need jobs not a referendum.

Ahmed Kennache

It is very possible for another year or two we would need short-term borrowing, ... Logic would tell you the cash flow needs would improve with the [approved November] rate referendum.

G. Stanley Hall

The results of the referendum have indicated the degree of political polarization in Iraq.

Ashraf Qazi

We're still confident that the referendum will pass on the weighted votes.

Bob Spaeth

The turning down of the referendum could slow down economic development. You will see a very slow movement of restaurants coming into the area.

Rick Whisonant

For me personally it is a vindication. ... I said this $13 million was meant to scare voters into approving the referendum. There was no cash-flow crisis.

Larry Snow

If there's any way for it to get done without a referendum, I'm all for it. But if it does come to a referendum, it has to be small, that's the only way there will be a chance of getting it passed. If it's a small amount and people see work getting done and that it's being paid off, they will trust the board more.

William Janos

If we will not be able to reach agreements in the end, this constitution is going to be presented to the Iraqis in an Oct. 15 referendum. Legally we do not need the parliament to vote on the draft, but we need only a consensus so that all the Iraqis will say yes to the constitution.

Hajim Al hassani

There's still a bit more coming and some that will leave, but that's a pretty good number, I think, for where we'll be through the referendum.

Carter Ham

We're not flat-out against a referendum. A budget plan has to be in place prior to April 4 so that when the referendum doesn't pass, the school administration and board have a plan� a better plan that doesn't include cutting curriculum and sports.

Mike Bidwell

Whoever was looking for a referendum got a referendum.

Sima Kadmon

If the people's deputies do not understand my appeal (to stop attacking me and back the referendum) then we will have to meet and go our separate ways once and for all.

Alexander Lukashenko

Leaders of the political blocs reached an agreement on the constitution draft that guarantees the rights of all Iraqi people in the referendum.

Hajim Al hasani

Where state or local revenue is improving, they're able to do more pay-as-you-go financing and perhaps put off another bond referendum.

Alex Fraser

When you have referendum materials that show a cash-flow crisis and $13 million in [tax anticipation warrant] debt is needed, and that turns out not to be the case, the public was deceived.

Larry Snow

If the referendum passes, we'll have new acquisitions, new books on the shelves, and our Sunday hours will remain and be permanent.

Janet Steiner

Holtzman clearly showed in the Referendum C campaign he was willing to go scorched earth. Bitter fights leave scars.

Eric Sondermann

The technology aspect of this referendum is the one that I don't think voters realize the need. That is why I am pushing for it.

Eric Everson