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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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• I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.

  Arlen Specter

  Records, Bleak, Subjects

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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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• In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Irans theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules.

  Elliott Abrams

  Independent, Iran, Freedom Of Speech

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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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• If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit.

  Hamilton Jordan

  Quitting, States, National Security

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• They [Nicaragua] haven't had elections because they are in a state of seige by the United States. They would have had elections if the U.S. had left them alone. But the U.S. has mounted a full scale war against them. So how can you ask them to behave normally?

  Allen Ginsberg

  War, Nicaragua, United States

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• Remember, at the end of the day [election] campaigns are always about the candidates.

  Chris Christie

  The End Of The Day, Campaigns, Remember

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• Greenlight is a bad example of an election process. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could just do away with Greenlight completely, because it was a bottleneck rather than a way for people to communicate choice.

  Gabe Newell

  Election Process, People, Choices

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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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• Nevertheless, I don't hesitate to say that elections in Germany are decided in the center, not on the fringes and not in the accumulation of minority interests.

  Peer Steinbruck

  Germany, Minorities, Fringe

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• You can't be too right too soon and win elections.

  George W. Romney

  Winning, Midterm Elections

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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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