Election Quotes - Page 18

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

  George W. Romney

  Winning, Midterm Elections

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Rick Perry was philosophical about (his election losses). He said, 'Last week was Iowa. Yesterday was New Hampshire. ' He said at least it's giving him a chance to learn the names of all the states.

  Jay Leno

  Philosophical, Loss, Yesterday

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• Senator Kerry does not support our troops. If he had won the election, there wouldn't be any troops left in Iraq. President Bush, on the other hand, has given our troops an opportunity to fight without end. That's creating jobs. In fact, the president's policies helped create 104 more job openings last month. Now who's stupid, Senator?

  Stephen Colbert

  Jobs, Stupid, Fighting

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• In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins.

  Susan Estrich

  Winning, Presidential, Candidates

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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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• I want people of faith on my side, not just voting on election day but by hoisting me up by getting down on your knees and lifting me up in prayer. Those who have a different view of things are already organizing...Will you stand in the gap with those of us who believe there's a God, and a God who is strong? We can stand in the gap together and speak about issues we believe in and we will be victorious.

  Rick Perry

  Strong, Prayer, Believe

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• The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages.

  Frank Zappa

  Dark, Years, Atheism

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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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• 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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• 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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• This is an election of hope. It is bringing a new trust. These elections will give new strength to the nation.

  Narendra Modi

  Giving, Democracy, India

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• [If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.

  Abraham Lincoln

  President, Unions, Duty

  Abraham Lincoln (2002). “Conversations With Lincoln”, p.359, Transaction Publishers

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• If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Disappointment, People, Fit

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.25, Penguin

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• It took six weeks of debate in the Senate to get the Arms Embargo Law repealed--and we face other delays during the present session because most of the Members of the Congress are thinking in terms of next Autumn's election. However, that is one of the prices that we who live in democracies have to pay. It is, however, worth paying, if all of us can avoid the type of government under which the unfortunate population of Germany and Russia must exist.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Autumn, Thinking, Russia

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• I think markets are often not thinking on a long-time horizon, I think that our government structurally is doing even less so. When we have a government where we have people who are up for election at most once every six years for a U.S. senator, that's a time horizon that is much shorter than in a market that a company is looking at 10, 15, 20 years which is a time horizon over which a stock price is typically valued.

  Peter Thiel

  Thinking, Government, Years

  Interview with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.

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