Election Quotes - Page 39

• My view is that the time has come for the international community to act on Zimbabwe in the way that it did in Bosnia. I do not think that we are going to get free and fair elections in Zimbabwe.

  Raila Odinga

  Thinking, Zimbabwe, Views

  "Foreboding rises over Zimbabwe". news.bbc.co.uk. June 19, 2008.

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• I think it is its time for the leaders of Africa to say to President Mugabe that the people of Zimbabwe's deserve a free and fair election.

  Raila Odinga

  Thinking, Zimbabwe, People

  "Mbeki meets with Zimbabwe's embattled leaders" by Nkepile Mabuse, www.cnn.com. June 18, 2008.

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• It is a big embarrassment that a leader can say on the eve of an election that he cannot hand over power to an opponent, that he can only hand over power to a member of his political party.

  Raila Odinga

  Party, Hands, Leader

  "Kenya's leader urges peacekeepers in Zimbabwe". www.cnn.com. June 24, 2008.

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• You cannot have free and fair elections while one party controls completely and monopolizes the instrument of power and .. Tsvangirai is in and out of police cells almost on a daily basis, when people are being arrested, people are being beaten up.

  Raila Odinga

  Party, Cells, People

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• Most election analysts in the U.S. habitually confuse the sound of money talking with the voice of the people.

  Thomas Ferguson

  Talking, Voice, People

  Thomas Ferguson (2011). “Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems”, p.362, University of Chicago Press

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• Much to popular disbelief, horses walking around during the elections with their tails straight up in the air are not showing off their Bush/Quale buttons.

  Dan Quayle

  Horse, Air, Buttons

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• In 1856...I preferred the success of a candidate whose election would prevent or postpone secession, to seeing the country plunged into a war the end of which no man could foretell. With a Democrat elected by the unanimous vote of the Slave States, there could be no pretext for secession for four years.... I therefore voted for James Buchanan as President.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Country, War, Men

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• My goal is always to keep support for Israel a bi-partisan issue and never make a national election any kind of referendum on Israel.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Israel, Issues, Goal

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• Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations.

  Albert Einstein

  Government, Leader, Political

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• The elections are run by the same guys who sell toothpaste. They show you an image of a sports hero, or a sexy model, or a car going up a sheer cliff or something, which has nothing to do with the commodity, but it's intended to delude you into picking this one rather than another one.

  Noam Chomsky

  Sports, Sexy, Running

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• The practice of democracy means that I, one person, one humble person, nevertheless feel some responsibility if the officials for whose election I was responsible go too far out of line.

  Clyde Kluckhohn

  Humble, Mean, Responsibility

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• Obviously, we're really upset about the state of the election. It's horrifying, as everybody knows, that we could have a totally fascist president.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Upset, President, States

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I never hear anything about education. Education - I guess it's just not sexy enough. And everybody claims to love their children and our children are the most important thing, but if that's the case, how come we never hear more about education as an election issue?

  Mitch Albom

  Sexy, Children, Issues

  Source: www.npr.org

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• People already think the entire system is rigged against Donald Trump, and they're right, meaning, the corrupt, rigged system. The elections every four years are just part of that to them. They feel like they can't get a fair shake. It is the essence of the Donald Trump candidacy.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Thinking, Years, Essence

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• With the advent of Trump Tower Live, the campaign`s new nightly broadcast, streamed over Facebook, rumors are once again, swirling of a potential Trump media empire to be launched after the election.

  Chris Hayes

  Media, Rumor, Towers

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [Donald] Trump`s campaign, the Republican National Committee and state parties employ just 1,409 staffers in 16 states. So, nearly for the one, democratic advantage in human resources, the big question now is, how well does that turn out machinery work for democrats for Election Day?

  Chris Hayes

  Party, Doe, Campaigns

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I will totally accept the results [of Election 2016] if I win.

  Donald Trump

  Winning, Accepting, Results

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election if I win. I would also reserve my right to contest or file a legal challenge in the case of a questionable result.

  Donald Trump

  Winning, Presidential, Challenges

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• When you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people`s minds about the legitimacy of our election, that undermines democracy. Then you`re doing the work of our adversaries for them.

  Barack Obama

  People, Mind, Doubt

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• You asked me about Queensland in particular and regional Queensland where our message of jobs and growth is resonating strongly because that's what is on people's mind, and when the election results are in on 2nd July, I'm confident that that message will be translated into the ballot box.

  George Brandis

  Jobs, July, People

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Remember, we`re competing in a rigged election [2016]. This is a rigged election, folks.

  Donald Trump

  Remember, Competing, Folks

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Whether or not you agree with Bernie Sanders' version of socialism, it is enormously significant that, for the first time in US history, a presidential candidates who calls himself a socialist has had an actual shot at winning the presidential election. And to his credit, he has not backed down from the label.

  Kshama Sawant

  Winning, Presidential, Labels

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• We need a total ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.

  Donald Trump

  Lobbyists, Needs, Raising Money

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We are in the target hairs in this election [2016]. We are all asking whether we are going to have a world at all or not going forward.

  Jill Stein

  Hair, Target, Asking

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• In 2004 Professor Stephen Farnsworth, when I report saying that I got about five minutes on all the networks after Labor Day to election day: only five minutes even though I, like you, were representing majoritarian issues.

  Ralph Nader

  I Like You, Issues, Labor Day

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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