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• Lokmanya Tilak said "Swaraj is my birthright" but now the people of India must say, "Surajya is my birthright".

  Narendra Modi

  People, Democracy, India

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• Contrary to the prevailing notion that good governance is bad politics, in reality good governance is good politics. A government should work keeping in mind the welfare of future generations, not the next election.

  Narendra Modi

  Reality, Government, Mind

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• I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you?

  Claire McCaskill

  Party, Home, Labor Day

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• If support for traditional marriage is bigotry, then Barack Obama was a bigot until just before the 2012 election.

  Marco Rubio

  Support, Barack, Traditional

  "Rubio dives into gay marriage debate" by Burgess Everett, www.politico.com. July 23, 2014.

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• Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isnt that really quite incredible?

  Warren Christopher

  Strong, Opponents, Incredibles

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• As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.

  Candy Crowley

  Country, Grateful, Opportunity

  "CNN's Candy Crowley Will Be First Woman in 20 Years to Moderate a Presidential Debate" by Marisa Guthrie, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 13, 2012.

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• The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You cant have a government within the country and not have control over everything thats happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.

  Salman Khurshid

  Country, Government, Remains

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• George W. Bush loves golf because it's like the election--low score wins.

  Jay Leno

  Golf, Winning, Lows

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• Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.

  Dennis Prager

  Wings, Impact, Black

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• The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.'

  Dennis Prager

  Country, Men, Impact

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• Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

  Elliott Abrams

  Matter, Depends, Fairs

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• Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee.

  John Jay Hooker

  Election Process, Effort, Challenges

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• The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.

  Will Rogers

  Government, Years, Three

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• I believe that George Bush won the election through the vote of the people and the way our republic is set up. All we did was follow the law in the Department of State.

  Katherine Harris

  Believe, Law, People

  "PrimeTime Exclusive: Katherine Harris Interview" by Rebecca Raphael, abcnews.go.com.

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• I always believed that WikiLeaks as a concept would perform a global role, and to some degree it was clear that it was doing that as far back as 2007 when it changed the result of the Kenyan general election.

  Julian Assange

  Degrees, Wikileaks, Roles

  "Julian Assange answers your questions". Q&A, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2010.

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• I will accept the results when the election is free and clean. I cannot accept fraud.

  Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

  Clean, Accepting, Results

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• Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

  Nate Silver

  Boring, Midterms, Midterm Elections

  "NATE SILVER: As Tempting As It Would Be To 'Drop The Mic' And Leave A Winner, I'll Be Back In 2014 And 2016" by Walter Hickey, www.businessinsider.com. November 14, 2012.

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• In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins.

  Susan Estrich

  Winning, Presidential, Candidates

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• In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Real, Winning, Ideas

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.20, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Still putting out the O'Reilly fires of me being a traitor and using Casey's name dishonorably, my in-laws sent out a press statement disagreeing with me in strong terms; which is totally okay with me, because they barely knew Casey. We have always been on separate sides of the fence politically and I have not spoken to them since the election when they supported the man who is responsible for Casey's death. The thing that matters to me is that our family - Casey's dad and my other 3 kids are on the same side of the fence that I am.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Strong, Dad, Kids

  "Camp Casey: Day 6" by Cindy Sheehan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 12, 2005.

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• John Kerry says that he wants to debate President Bush once a month until the election. This could be a risky move for Senator Kerry. If Bush doesn't show up for the debates, John Kerry may end up debating an empty chair. And that could be pretty much a toss up as to which one has the better personality.

  Jay Leno

  Moving, Personality, President

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• It's nine months before the election and Bush's poll numbers have fallen to the exact level that his father's poll numbers were nine months before he lost to Bill Clinton. Today front runner John Kerry said he's not superstitious, but just to be on the safe side, he's going to start f---ing everything that moves.

  Bill Maher

  Father, Moving, Numbers

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• The mystery of God's providence is a most sublime consideration. It is easy to let our reason run away with itself. It is at a loss when it attempts to search into the eternal decrees of election or the entangled mazes and labyrinths in which the divine providence walks. This knowledge is too wonderful for us. Man can be very confident that God exercises the most accurate providence over him and his affairs. Nothing comes to pass without our heavenly Father. No evil comes to pass without his permissive providence, and no good without his ordaining providence to his own ends.

  Ezekiel Hopkins

  Running, Father, Loss

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• Congress will be tempted to wipe their hands of this, go to the Election Day and say 'we've done our part' and that's where groups like ours, Concerned Veterans for America, veterans across the country have to keep the heat on them to say this is just the start. VA is not fixed.

  Pete Hegseth

  Country, Hands, America

  "Records show Obama met just once with Shinseki during VA scandal" by Mike Emanuel, www.foxnews.com. August 7, 2014.

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• Texans for Public Justice, an anti-corruption group based in Texas applauded the indictment. No jury can undo the outcome of Texas 2002 elections, ... but the justice system must punish those who criminally conspire to undermine democracy no matter how powerful they may be. If we are to be a democracy, then powerful politicians cannot flout such laws with impunity.

  Craig McDonald

  Powerful, Texas, Law

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