Election Quotes - Page 3

• The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Men, Political, Politics

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• I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Pakistan, October, Return

  Interview With Zahid Hussain, newslinemagazine.com. July 2002.

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• I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Contests, Competent

  Interview With Zahid Hussain, newslinemagazine.com. July 2002.

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• I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote - not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know?

  Jello Biafra

  People, Inspire, Helping

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• I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.

  Tucker Carlson

  Daughter, Mother, Morning

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• The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.

  Warren Christopher

  Palestinian, Mandates, Turning Points

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• No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Fighting, Political

  Winston Churchill (1947). “Great Contemporaries”

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• God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.

  James Dobson

  Our World, Views, Select

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• When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Law, Special, Different

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• A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

  Neil Gaiman

  Nice, Freedom Of Speech, Target

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• In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

  Newt Gingrich

  Party, Winning, Politics

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• The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

  Jesse Helms

  Winning, Secret, Opponents

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• I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Museums, Opponents, Found

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• Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years.

  John M. McHugh

  Years, People, Voting

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• American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Reality, Voting Age, Political

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• In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani.

  Conan O'Brien

  Change, New York, Names

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• I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  Mean, Europe, Unions

  "US to match EU sanctions on Zimbabwe" by Andrew Meldrum, David Pallister, Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2002.

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• From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

  Marco Rubio

  Party, Political, Tea

  Marco Rubio's Conservative Political Action Conference speech, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

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• Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Witty, Clever

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• The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Thinking, Cereal, Election Process

  Speech at the Democratic National Convention, August 18, 1956.

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• The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnational network of terrorists who have tried to prevent this day from happening.

  Jim Talent

  Blow, Iraq, People

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• I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

  John Mahoney

  Jobs, Team, Party

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• I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

  James Baker

  Presidential, Frustrating, Margins

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• As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook.

  Jennifer Dunn

  People, Vote, Universal Truth

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• Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Reason Why, Reason

  "U.S. Holds to Deadline for Iraq Power Transfer", www.foxnews.com. January 23, 2004.

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