Election Quotes - Page 10

• The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Men, Political, Politics

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• I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Pakistan, October, Return

  Interview With Zahid Hussain, newslinemagazine.com. July 2002.

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• The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.

  Warren Christopher

  Palestinian, Mandates, Turning Points

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• In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

  Newt Gingrich

  Party, Winning, Politics

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• Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years.

  John M. McHugh

  Years, People, Voting

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• American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Reality, Voting Age, Political

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• In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani.

  Conan O'Brien

  Change, New York, Names

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• From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

  Marco Rubio

  Party, Political, Tea

  Marco Rubio's Conservative Political Action Conference speech, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

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• The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Thinking, Cereal, Election Process

  Speech at the Democratic National Convention, August 18, 1956.

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• The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnational network of terrorists who have tried to prevent this day from happening.

  Jim Talent

  Blow, Iraq, People

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• I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

  John Mahoney

  Jobs, Team, Party

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• I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

  James Baker

  Presidential, Frustrating, Margins

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• As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook.

  Jennifer Dunn

  People, Vote, Universal Truth

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• It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.

  Frank Carlucci

  War, Germany, World

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• In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.

  John N. Mitchell

  Mind, Important, Sides

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• During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Government, Training, Special

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• Elections are a Western jerk-off.

  John le Carre

  Jerk, Western

  "The Mission Song". Book by John le Carre, 2006.

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• There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Humorous, Party

  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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• Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They want that. And it's good policy.

  Gail Collins

  People, Voting, Income

  "Grand Bargain Express". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. December 5, 2012.

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• Election night is the easiest time to act like a grownup.

  Ron Fournier

  Night, Grownups

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• All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

  Harry S. Truman

  Kissing, Men, People

  Letter to his sister, 14 Nov. 1947, in Off the Record: the Private Papers of Harry S. Truman (1980) p. 119

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• The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Law, Risk, Voters

  "Supreme Court allows Texas voter ID law for now" by Jason Hanna, Michael Pearson, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2014.

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• Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

  Orson Welles

  Ducks, Popularity, Politician

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• An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Courage, Blood, Soul

  George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.176, 1st World Publishing

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• Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.

  Jello Biafra

  School, Cities, Important

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