Election Quotes - Page 12

• Are you excited about the recall election? Arnold's campaign has a new slogan: 'Win one for the groper.'

  David Letterman

  Winning, Campaigns, Excited

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• There's all this talk about Arnold Schwarzenegger. Well, you know where he is now? Visiting Mexico, which I think means that he is definitely going to run for governor. Arnold is smart. He's in Mexico campaigning with the very people who'll be living here by election time.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Smart, Mean

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• Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls.

  William J. Clinton

  Horse, Race, Unfinished

  "Bill Clinton; Sens. Webb & Kyl; Gov. Paterson". "Meet the Press", www.realclearpolitics.com. September 27, 2009.

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• In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.

  Salman Khurshid

  Winning, Democracy, Next

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• Elections in L.A. are so different. Here you've got politicians with phony smiles making false promises to voters with fake boobs and bad toupees.

  Jay Leno

  Fake, Promise, Different

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• I don't care if the Koch brothers or Soros spend their money to promote one candidate or another. I care about members of Congress spending 30%-70% of their time raising money from .05% of us. Change the way we fund elections and you change the corruption.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Brother, Care, Way

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2013.

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• Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

  Tom Peters

  Procrastination, Thinking, Worst Enemy

  Tom Peters (1999). “The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!”, p.89, Knopf

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• No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Matter, Return, Flags

  Finley Peter Dunne (1963). “Mr. Dooley remembers: the informal memoirs of Finley Peter Dunne”

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• I am a political recidivist. An incorrigible, repeat voter. A career lever-pusher. My electoral rap sheet is as long as your arm. Over the course of three decades, I have voted for presidents and school board members. I have voted in high hopes and high dudgeon. I have voted in favor of candidates and merely against their opponents. I have voted for propositions written with such complexity that I needed Noam Chomsky to deconstruct their meaning. I have been a single-issue voter and a marginal voter. I have even voted for people who ran unopposed. Hold an election and I'll be there.

  Ellen Goodman

  Rap, School, Careers

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• Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Truth, Judging, Evil

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• If I were afraid of polls, I never would've been elected in two landslide elections, leading a highest percentage in our state's last election for governor. If I were afraid of polls, we wouldn't have privatized our charity hospital system, we wouldn't cut our state budget 26%, wouldn't have cut over 30,000 state government bureaucrats, wouldn't have done statewide school choice. Here's the real record.

  Bobby Jindal

  Real, School, Cutting

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. June 28, 2015.

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• You see in Turkey, they had a remarkable success story in building up a democracy. I was in Istanbul for most of the year 1950. That was the year when the government held free and fair election, was defeated and simply withdrew from power and handed it over to the opposition, without precedent in Middle Eastern history. That was a really remarkable time and it was a fascinating and rewarding experience to be there at that time.

  Bernard Lewis

  Democracy, Defeated, Building

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• There's going to be a lot of people that don't like you, and there's nothing you can do about it. Instead of trying to win them over one by one, you need to do things that are getting huge swaths of votes [in the elections].

  Michael Schur

  Winning, People, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Its the details and the human element that makes Recount entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. Its also funny.

  Kevin Spacey

  Play, Details, Elements

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• So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Ideas, Campaigns, Littles

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• The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics. The growing independence of voters, after all, has been proven by the votes in every Presidential election since my childhood and the tendency, frankly, is on the increase.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wise, Lying, Government

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• A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law...That portion of the sovereignty, to which each individual is entitled, can never be too highly prized. It is that for which we have fought and bled.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Rights, Law, Voting

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• I have to earn re-election. Thats the way I see it.

  Yvette Clarke

  Way

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• Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Teaching, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.110, Algonquin Books

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• That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.

  Will Rogers

  Trouble, Politician, Interrupting

  Will Rogers (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method.
  [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Voting, Ego, Viva

  "On the Laws". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, III. 15, c. 43 B.C..

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• In my wildest dreams, I never would have thought wed come to the point where were talking about the re-election of a black president.

  Harvey Gantt

  Dream, Talking, Black

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• An election marks the end of the affair; it puts paid to the seduction of the many by the few. Pretty words, fulsome promises. We wind up married, but to whom, to what? We cannot always predict with certainty the future leader from the winning candidate. Some men grow in the job; others are diminished by its demands and its grandeur.

  Anna Quindlen

  Jobs, Winning, Men

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• You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Class, Lasts, Moses

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.

  Kate Clinton

  People, Activist

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