Election Quotes - Page 4

• President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.

  Rick Santorum

  College, America, President

  "Romney Motors To Victories, Santorum Slides Back". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 29, 2012.

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• In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

  Barack Obama

  Hope, Cynicism, Ends

  Barack Obama (2008). “Yes, We Can”, p.48, BoD – Books on Demand

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• As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

  Gore Vidal

  Election Time, Action, Language

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.52, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Men, Letters, Politics

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• Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?

  Ross Perot

  Daughter, Three, Want

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• Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Finishing, Complaining, Politics

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• I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

  Imran Khan

  Sports, Islam, Might

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• Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.

  Linda Lingle

  Thinking, Generations, Next

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• The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history.

  Greg Knight

  Suicide, Party, Pumpkin

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• Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Responsibility, Law, Outcomes

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• It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Party, Believe, Insanity

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• If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.

  Pete du Pont

  Winning, Trying, Opponents

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• America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

  Thomas E. Mann

  America, Democracy, World

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• The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Freedom, Thinking, Members Of Parliament

  "Of the Social Contract".

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• One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

  Imran Khan

  Sports, Mean, People

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• To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

  Jessica Lange

  Leadership, Men, Mind

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• We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Witty, Freedom

  "The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin’s Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe’s Neighbors, His Almanack, Comic Drawings". Book by Kin Hubbard, October 1, 1984.

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  The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Presidential

  Speech, 19 May 1856

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• Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.

  Joseph Hall

  Order, Calling, Firsts

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Containing forty-three sermons”, p.594

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• If so be that freewill were our tutor, and we had our heaven in our own keeping, then we would lose all. But because we have Christ for our tutor, and He has our heaven in His hand, therefore the covenant it must be perpetual.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Hands, Heaven, Covenant

  Samuel Rutherford (1885). “Quaint Sermons of Samuel Rutherford: Hitherto Unpublished”

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• I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Winning, Hands, Political

  "Adlai Stevenson: A Study in Values". Book by Herbert Joseph Muller, p. 174, 1967.

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• Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

  Dorothy Thompson

  Years, Organization, Needs

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• I didn't have the base I needed to win the election

  Rodney Alexander

  Winning, Needed

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• A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.

  Thomas Adams

  Men, May, Forget

  Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.123

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• We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only by the beams, light and heat. Election is a sun, the eyes of eagles cannot see it, yet we may find it in the heat of vocation, in the light of illumination, in the beams of good works.

  Thomas Adams

  Eye, What Matters, Light

  Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.117

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