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• During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner.

  Jeane Dixon

  Saws, Winner, 1960s

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• Elections should be about making the people a part of the development journey. That is when India will move ahead.

  Narendra Modi

  Moving, Journey, People

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• Trump's election is part of an international trend that's no less alarming, in Britain, in France, in Germany, in Austria. Vladimir Putin wanted to see this outcome no less than he would like to see nationalists and anti-Europeanists win in France.

  David Remnick

  Winning, France, Germany

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Elections are always a little bit funny. People start saying things and emphasizing differences. After the election, my hope is, is that people start emphasizing what we have in common.

  Barack Obama

  Differences, People, Littles

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Election campaigns seem to siphon away political anger and even basic political intelligence into this great vaudeville, after which we all end up in exactly the same place.

  Arundhati Roy

  Political, Campaigns, Vaudeville

  "Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution'". Interview with Arun Gupta, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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• I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Mexican Border, Southern

  Donald Trump's Announcement on Presidential Campaign Launch at the Trump Tower in New York City, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. June 16, 2015.

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• Take it from me: Elections matter.

  Al Gore

  Political, Matter, Election Day

  "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees" with Campbell Brown, transcripts.cnn.com. June 16, 2008.

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• When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best.

  Donald Trump

  Illegal Things, People, Mexican

  "Divided Mexico unites against Trump: 'He has no respect for human beings'" by Jo Tuckman, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2015.

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• The election process is a total fraud. If voters believe the process is secret, they will vote. If not, they will not.

  Riordan Roett

  Believe, Election Process, Secret

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• When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.

  Molly Ivins

  Country, Winning, Talking

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.141, Vintage

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• Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element. Public life gradually falls asleep, a few dozen party leaders of inexhaustible energy and boundless experience direct and rule. Such conditions must inevitably cause a brutalization of public life: attempted assassinations, shootings of hostages, etc.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Fall, Party, Struggle

  Rosa Luxemburg (1961). “The Russian Revolution, and Leninism Or Marxism?”, p.71, University of Michigan Press

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• It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election.

  Bob Kerrey

  Moments, Clear

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• The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

  Honore de Balzac

  Children, Effort, Majestic

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• I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.

  Stephanie Tubbs Jones

  Body, Debate, Formal

  "Countdown" with Keith Oldermann, www.nbcnews.com. January 7, 2005.

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• I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Thinking, Iraq, Waiting

  "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

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• There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.

  Chris Patten

  Voting, Exotic, Way

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• We hope and we've made clear that the forces need to come out. It needs to be full and complete withdrawal. Our position is it needs to be done as soon as possible so that the elections can be free, fair and free of outside influence.

  Stephen Hadley

  Needs, Withdrawal, Done

  "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 14, 2005.

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• I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Thinking, America, Presidential

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• Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.

  Eric Liu

  Games, Lessons, Sometimes

  "Mad Libs" by Eric Liu, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2005.

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• If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.

  Ken Livingstone

  War, Vote, Given

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• Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.

  Ken Livingstone

  Accurate, Polling, General Elections

  "Ken Livingstone: 'This isn't a race to elect a chat-show host'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

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• I am honored to be here as co-chair of President Obama's re-election campaign.

  Eva Longoria

  President, Campaigns, Chairs

  Eva Longoria DNC speech, www.politico.com. September 06, 2012.

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• If elections really changed anything, they would be outlawed.

  Emma Goldman

  Would Be, Changed, Ifs

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• Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Promise, Taxation, Election Time

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• I don't care what you want to call it. You can call it the deep state. You can get specific and you can say that it's members of the permanent government and there are plenty of those, that are in the intelligence community that simply will not accept the results of the Donald Trump election.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Community, Care, Accepting

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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