Election Quotes - Page 6

Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks.

Ted Kulongoski

Sides, Inauguration, Closing

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They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

Chinua Achebe

Long, Leader, Habit

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This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!

Dan Quayle

Stupidity, President, United States

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I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Margaret Thatcher

Family, Daughter, Fathers Day

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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Gore Vidal

Issues, Political, Historical

FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from May 03, 2011

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I voted for you during your last election.

Mao Zedong

Lasts

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An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as peas in the same pod.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Country, Party, Names

Fireside Chat in the night before signing the Fair Labor Standards, June 24, 1938.

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It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.

Zalmay Khalilzad

People, Voting, Important

"Sudan to Close Baghdad Embassy". www.foxnews.com. December 30, 2005.

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As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

America, People, Presidential

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Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win.

Lincoln Chafee

Winning, Thinking, Talking

"Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. March 13, 2005.

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I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.

Jack Steinberger

Noses, Faces, Hateful

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Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.

Adam Michnik

Country, Israel, Middle East

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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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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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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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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

P. J. O'Rourke

Death, Failure, Character

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.74, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.

Claude Pepper

Country, Thinking, United States

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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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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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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

Gore Vidal

Communication, Cities, People

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

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This election ain't no stinkin' TV show.

Bradley Whitford

Tv Shows, Tvs, Shows

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Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

Walter Lippmann

Football, Political, Useless

Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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Anytime you see white men suppose to fight each other an you not white, well you know you got trouble, because they blah-blah loud about Democrat or Republican an they huffing an puff about democracy someplace else but relentless, see, the deal come down evil on somebody don have no shirt an tie, somebody don live in no whiteman house no whiteman country.

June Jordan

Country, Fighting, Men

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Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic.

William J. Clinton

Ideas, People, Giving

William J. "Bill" Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

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