Election Quotes - Page 20

• Mandela's commitment to democracy was ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power

  Barack Obama

  Commitment, Democracy, Steps

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• This democracy... The elections in Iraq were held despite the American opposition. It was the will of the Iraqi people and the religious authorities. [The elections] were the result of pressure by Ayatollah Sistani, by the Iraqi religious authorities, and by the fighting forces in Iraq on America. They left the US no choice but to allow the elections.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Religious, Fighting, Iraq

  "Rafsanjani: the U.S. Sold Biological and Chemical Weapons to Saddam Hussein. Elections in Iraq Were Held against America's Will". MEMRI TV, February 2005.

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• As you may have heard, former President Bill Clinton says he's coming here to California to help Governor Gray Davis in his recall election campaign. Which is ironic, isn't it? When Clinton was president, he couldn't recall anything.

  Jay Leno

  California, Ironic, President

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• A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations.

  James Freeman

  Thinking, Generations, Next

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• [Oliver North is a] document-shredding, Constitution-trashing, Commander in Chief-bashing, Congress-thrashing, uniform-shaming, Ayatollah-loving, arms-dealing, criminal-protecting, résumé-enhancing, Noriega-coddling, Social
  Security-threatening, public school-denigrating, Swiss-banking-law-breaking, letter-faking, self-serving, election-losing, snake-oil salesman who can't tell the difference between the truth and a lie.

  Chuck Robb

  Funny, Lying, School

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• A new poll says that if the election were held today, both John Kerry and John Edwards would beat President Bush by double digit margins. The White House is so worried about this, they're now thinking of moving up the capture of Osama Bin Laden to next month.

  Jay Leno

  Moving, Thinking, White

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• Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

  Mark McKinnon

  Winning, Past, Campaigns

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• I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, May, Next

  Abraham Lincoln, Roy Prentice Basler (1953). “Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”

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• In Sumter and other counties [in South Carolina] the whites are resorting to intimidation and violence to prevent the colored people from organizing for the elections. The division there is still on the color line. Substantially all the whites are Democrats and all the colored people are Republicans. There is no political principle in dispute between them. The whites have the intelligence, the property, and the courage which make power. The negroes are for the most part ignorant, poor, and timid. My view is that the whites must be divided there before a better state of things will prevail.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Views, Color, People

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• I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

  Donald Wuerl

  Spirit, Pope, Holy

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• This 2016 election better be about the future, not the past. It better be about the issues our nation and the world is facing today, not simply the issues we once faced.

  Marco Rubio

  Past, Issues, World

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance. Nobody wishes bad manners. We must have loyalty and character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Loyalty, Character, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2495, Delphi Classics

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• I cannot go to elections with an open stomach. If you want to negotiate we have to conclude it before the elections. I cannot just start the negotiations [with Palestinians] saying we are ready to do this and that and not having any reply.

  Shimon Peres

  Want, Negotiation, Stomach

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Might, Rebellion

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.334, Fordham Univ Press

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• How Obama approaches judicial selection - and how Republicans respond - now becomes an important story and will remain so until the Senate shuts down judicial confirmations, probably in the summer of 2016 if Senate custom in presidential-election years is followed.

  Terry Eastland

  Summer, Years, Presidential

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• politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Games, Getting High, Tactics

  Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.33, Northwestern University Press

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• The circus doesn't stop. A federal appeals court has postponed the recall election. How stupid are we? Even our recalls get recalled.

  Jay Leno

  Stupid, Circus, Court

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• The Pavlovian view of women voters - plug the words in, and they will respond - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands. But there's a difference between a private conversation and a presidential election, between what we want from our leaders.

  Deborah Tannen

  Sex, Women, Communication

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• I do not think a revival of business will be greatly postponed by [Samuel J.] Tilden's election. Business prosperity does not, inmy judgment, depend on government so much as men commonly think.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Men, Thinking, Doe

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• The key to winning any general election in the USA is to excite your base and then expand your base - get independent voters and voters who haven't been voting for your party to come to your party.

  Rand Paul

  Party, Independent, Winning

  Source: www.politico.com

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• My father was a mailman. His father was a coal miner. My mother's mother could barely speak English. And their son today stands on this podium in the great state of Ohio not only as the governor, but a candidate for president of the United States.I do believe in miracles.I've had a lot of elections. But my elections are really not about campaigns. I tell my people that these are about a movement.A movement to do things like provide economic growth. And a movement not to let anybody be behind.

  John Kasich

  Mother, Father, Believe

  GOP Debate, www.cbsnews.com. August 07, 2015.

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• The Western concept of democracy is based on the idea that the loser of an election has the possibility next time round of being the winner. But in the case of an ethnically or religiously divided country, in which minorities don't live peacefully together, this necessary balance can't be properly guaranteed by democracy. When each ethnic group arms itself, it is not surprising that the army of a new state is viewed by part of the population as an ideological militia.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Army, Ideas

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's important to be qualified, but if election 2016 is a resume competition, then Hillary Clinton's gonna be the next president, because she's been in office and in government longer than anybody else.

  Marco Rubio

  Government, Office, Competition

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections.

  Edward Brooke

  White, Rights, Years

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• Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want.

  Charles M. Blow

  Passion, Want, Voters

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