Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.
Jared Diamond
Related It's a country that's accustomed to elections every four years. Clean, crystalline, transparent elec... OSCAR ARIAS Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time, ... In politics,... GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken. NATE SILVER The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means ... AARON CIECHANOVER The Federal Highway Administration has allowed states to take advantage of a loophole in federal reg... BILL DEDMAN My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four ... HOPE SOLO It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years. H. ROSS PEROT It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years. H ROSS PEROT Every game for four years, except for one or two last year, and two this year. GREG THARRINGTON The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I thi... ROBERT MCCHESNEY Abby comes every day to practice and games ready to play. She has started for four years, great athl... JEFF BARKER [DeLay himself drew the line sharply the day after the 2004 elections.] The Republican Party is a pe... TOM DELAY Every two years for Congress, four years for President, illegal immigration comes out as a political... JOE ARPAIO The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're... HOWARD DEAN Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bri... JOHN SUNUNU This (Northeast) location is only four years old, and every year, we've surpassed the year before. SUZANNE SMITH I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I... VIRGIL THOMSON They have been successfully used for many, many years in hundreds of elections all over the country.... DAVID BEAR There's almost all exclusively men. In four years (I've been doing this), I've only seen two women. ALLISON HINE We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eigh... BARACK OBAMA The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way w... HOWARD DEAN I have seen the face of this country change in 25 years or 30 years. I have seen a equalization begi... SIDNEY BUCHMAN Consider this: The United States held its first presidential election in 1789. It marked the first p... SAM BROWNBACK The changes just simply continue and so its just different kinds of technologies in the last four to... ALAN MAY This has been a long time coming for us. We first conceived of the project about 10 years ago, and t... CRAIG BRYSON The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by pe... RALPH NADER The reality is for 50 years in this country, federal law has required people that are illegal - or t... TRENT FRANKS This is very similar to the data we got three, four years ago. CRAIG NESBIT I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won... BEV PERDUE In four years, the installation that is going to happen in India is monumental. HENRY GILCHRIST Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment. SHERI HOLMAN Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards ... JOHN NEGROPONTE Six years in this country - this is the worst accident I've seen. GEORGE FRANCO As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free ... CANDY CROWLEY The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four ye... RAHM EMANUEL I think I can work with any of them. We are going to continue investing, whoever wins. We think long... CARLOS SLIM I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country... SMEDLEY BUTLER We've kicked out every government so far and I think it's finally time we give somebody another chan... GEZA SANDOR In politics time is measured in increments of two, four and six years, LEE RAYMOND Worship comes first of course, but this (the World Cup) comes round only every four years so we can ... GEORGE CAREY In four years, I've never seen us play this well. Everything we work on in practice seems to work wi... MICHELE CAHILL I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback. PAM GRIER The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem. GARY LINEKER I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different language... SANTIAGO CABRERA This was just a classic game. We have had four 1-run games in the past two years. Today we had solid... BRAD SCHMITT I wish that Internet safety could be taught at every middle school in the country, over two, three o... GLENA RECORDS By year five we'd like to have three or four dealers in every state in the country. BRAD BAYNE I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party a... JIM DEMINT Rio in four years; I've got more inspiration in the last two, three weeks. I'm sure I'm ... OSCAR PISTORIUS Consider: Life arose on Earth close to four billion years ago. Four billion years of slithering, swi... SETH SHOSTAK I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years. BARNEY ROSS Just why, you know? We've had family members that have had cancers in the last four to five years an... DEBBIE CASTRO It's four years, and I cry every day with the aching in my heart at not being able to touch my daugh... BARBARA REBORATTI We looked back and this was the best year in the past three or four years. ANDREA KONCZ Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws... ROBERT DALLEK Every five years or so, copper prices spike up and we see this happen. MIKE CROZIER This is probably the worst it's been in the last four or five years in Ontario. BOB JOHNSON We got so much better in our four years. Basketball is more serious here now. You just don't come ou... HEATHER EMPSON I've been waiting for this moment for four years. KRISTEN NASH It's actually shocking and a little unexpected. It's been the best season in every way. Our record a... CANDICE SORBERA We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it orda... JACK WELCH Every two years we have an election for a term of four years. The chief is in one category, and the ... CHIEF LOUIE CHAVIS He was there to serve his country and to keep his family and country safe. It was what he wanted to ... MARGARET LEVENS He was there to serve his country and to keep his family and country safe. It was what he wanted to ... MARGARET LEVENS Our latest estimate and time frames for new elections is three years, LAISENIA QARASE The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem. GARY LINEKER I think this is the most skilled team we've had in three or four years. JAY SCHWARZROCK Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom. DAVID R. BROWER This is a huge, huge win for us. All four seniors have played all four years. We got to the regional... BEN CHAPPELL That whole area is going to be developed in the next 10 or 15 years. Three or four years ago, we nev... HARRY KINNAN We're trying to provide an option that we would lock in their tuition and fee rate for four years an... RICHARD ADAUTO Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night... THE WONDER YEARS I remember a place... a town... a house like a lot of houses... a yard like a lot of other yards... ... THE WONDER YEARS I never knew it would be this hard to lose something I never had. THE WONDER YEARS Once upon a time there was a girl I knew, who lived across the street. Brown hair, brown eyes. When ... THE WONDER YEARS Change is never easy. You fight to hold on. You fight to let go. THE WONDER YEARS I guess sometimes the ground can shift between your feet. Sometimes your footing slips. You stumble.... THE WONDER YEARS All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners... THE WONDER YEARS Over the course of the average lifetime you meet a lot of people. Some of them stick with you throug... THE WONDER YEARS Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers; the next day you're gone. But the memo... THE WONDER YEARS He has steered his country through a most difficult and painful transition ... We now look forward t... TONY BLAIR There is no elections scheduled in the country soon and the opposition is weak, so the president may... ILGAR MAMMADOV He's just got a different look in his eyes from when I saw him three, four years ago. DAVE MAGADAN He was there to serve his country and to keep his family and country safe. It was what he wanted to ... MARGARET LEVENS It's an amazing feeling to end my four years like this. I love my team so much. I wouldn't trade my ... FELICIA CHESTER But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had... ROBERT MACNEIL Michael Fielding left the country in June 2001, over four years ago. Our business has moved onwards ... BILL RICHARDS Initiatives tend to shape turnout substantially in non-presidential elections. ELIZABETH GARRETT There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes. PROVERB There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes. PERSIAN PROVERB My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old. NATALIE GULBIS I have used the laws of this country just like the greatest people that you read about every day in ... DONALD TRUMP Ground Zero in the 2004 presidential campaign. ... I believe that, had Al Gore stayed in Ohio, he pr... ROB PORTMAN I learned more in those two weeks than I did in four years of school. SAMANTHA ALDOM The downside to becoming a doctor, I think, is it's a very long process; four years of medical s... JIM LEE If they don't reinstate every four years, they drop a level. They have to earn their classification. TOM CICCARONE I put out an album once every four or five years and it's kind of like starting over every time. LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM Steve, we trained for four years; you're going to spend the next four years signing autographs. SOICHI NOGUCHI They're the standard right now. They've been in the World Series the last four years, to the finals ... JOE SAVERY All of our major businesses can have a short-twitch capability every six to nine months to a long-tw... STEVE BALLMER
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