Election Quotes - Page 7

• Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

  "The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw".

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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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• You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.

  Artur Davis

  Reality, Favors, Losing

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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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• 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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• Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'

  Jessica Mitford

  Running, America, People

  Jessica Mitford (1960). “Hons and Rebels”

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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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• However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Democracy, Parliament, Existence

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• The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.

  Ed Gillespie

  Party, Democratic, Angry

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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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• Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Democracy, Stakes, Dictatorship

  "Another angry neighbour for Bush" by Simon Tisdall, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2006.

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• We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Views, People, Perspective

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• My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

  Liev Schreiber

  Thinking, President, Politics

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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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• I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Way, Diets, Parliamentary

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• Young people are the key to this election.

  Kinky Friedman

  Keys, People, Young

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• I voted for you during your last election.

  Mao Zedong

  Lasts

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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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