Election Quotes - Page 5

• The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Office, Political, President

  Said in 1983. "The Pacific Rim and the Western World: Strategic, Economic, and Cultural Perspectives". Book edited by Philip West, Frans A.M. Alting von Geusau, p. 105, 1987.

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• The American people probably aren't going to fall in love with Mitt Romney.

  John Boehner

  Falling In Love, People, Romney

  "John Boehner: Voters Need Not Love Mitt Romney". www.rollcall.com. June 30, 2012.

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• If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner.

  Lindsey Nelson

  Running, Political, Half

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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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• 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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• I like PBS. I love Big Bird ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it.

  Mitt Romney

  Pbs, Bird, Pay

  First presidential debate between President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney in Denver, Colorado, www.npr.org. October 3, 2012.

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• With so much at stake in this election, both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan should 'go rogue.'

  Sarah Palin

  Rogues, Should, Stakes

  "Palin to Romney-Ryan: 'Go Rogue'" By Daniel Halper, www.weeklystandard.com. September 22, 2012.

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• Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done.

  Mike Turzai

  Winning, Pennsylvania, Done

  "Pennsylvania Republican: Voter ID Laws Are ‘Gonna Allow Governor Romney To Win’" by Annie-Rose Strasser, thinkprogress.org. June 25, 2012.

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• For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a sinner, and doth wilfully refuse the means of grace offered.

  Anthony Burgess

  Mean, Men, Grace

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

  Rodney Alexander

  Winning, Needed

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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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• The right procedure: You begin at the wrong end if you first dispute about your election. Prove your conversion, and then never doubt your election. If you cannot yet prove it, set upon a present and thorough turning. Whatever purposes be, which are secret, I am sure His promises are plain. How desperately do rebels argue! "If I am elected I shall be saved, do what I will. If not, I shall be damned, do what I can." Perverse sinner, will you begin where you should end?

  Joseph Alleine

  Doubt, Secret, Promise

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• Do not stand still disputing about your election - but set to repenting and believing. Cry to God for converting grace. Revealed things belong to you; in these busy yourself. Whatever God's purposes may be, I am sure His promises are true. Whatever the decrees of heaven may be, I am sure if I repent and believe I shall be saved.

  Joseph Alleine

  Believe, Heaven, Grace

  "A Sure Guide to Heaven".

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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 concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair, I'll fix it.

  Mitt Romney

  Safety, Needs, Poor

  "“So Rich, So Poor”: Peter Edelman on Ending U.S. Poverty & Why He Left Clinton Admin over Welfare Law". "Democracy now" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 23, 2012.

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• The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Party, Victory, Prejudice

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• Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.

  Barbara Boxer

  Country, Political, Voting

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• Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Promise, May

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• Don't vote, it only encourages them.

  Billy Connolly

  Political, Vote, Election Day

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• The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.

  Will Rogers

  Splits, Republican, Democrat

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.

  Will Rogers

  Hurt, America, Happens

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• You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have enough votes on our side.

  Herbert Hoover

  Political, Politics, Sides

  Herbert Hoover (1934). “October 1, 1931, to March 4, 1933”

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• Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

  James Russell Lowell

  Freedom, Men, Democracies Have

  The Biglow Papers, Second Series, "Ef I a song or two could make" l. 97 (1867)

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• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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