Election Quotes - Page 24

• A crime is a crime irrespective of the birth marks of the criminal.

  Narendra Modi

  Democracy, India, Criminals

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• This country has attained 'Swarajya', but unfortunately the dream of 'Surajya' is left unfulfilled. Today, if there is any major challenge before this country, it is that of a 'Surajya' and since the last decade, Gujarat is working in the direction of attaining Surajya.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Dream, Challenges

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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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• 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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• We need efforts to integrate the nation, not divide it. The 2014 elections is about voting for India. It is to decide what kind of India we want to create. So Vote for India. Neither for a person, nor for a party, let us Vote for India.

  Narendra Modi

  Party, Voting, Effort

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• Secularism for the Congress is merely a slogan while for the BJP it is an article of faith. Secularism is about votebank politics for the Congress, while it is about 'India first' for the BJP.

  Narendra Modi

  Bjp, Democracy, India

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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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• The basis of democracy is tolerance to criticism. If you can't face criticism, if you can't accept it, then you cannot guard democracy, you are not eligible for it.

  Narendra Modi

  Tolerance, Democracy, Criticism

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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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• 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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• It's time to put country ahead of party. It's time to put the next generation ahead of the next election.

  Barack Obama

  Education, Country, Party

  Remarks by the President on College Affordability, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 26, 2011.

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• It is not easy to fight elections with a development motto and I am glad people of Gujarat rose above personal and emotional tangles and prioritized development over everything else.

  Narendra Modi

  Fighting, Emotional, Rose

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

  George W. Romney

  Winning, Midterm Elections

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• How about this John Kerry controversy? So he's out there in California, tells some kind of joke and it backfires. He's saying he botched the joke. ... This guy can lose elections he's not even in.

  David Letterman

  California, Guy, Kind

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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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• 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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• 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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• These elections won't be about the manifesto of parties, but about manifesto of the people and their dreams who want peace and prosperity.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, Party, People

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