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• I can't think of any decision where the entire Congress immediately rushes to condemn a decision by the court. It's getting to be election time and this gives everyone in Congress a chance to prove they are patriotic.

  Stephen Reinhardt

  Patriotic, Thinking, Giving

  "Pledge of Allegiance Judges Facing Demonstrators at Courthouse". www.foxnews.com. July 17, 2002.

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• I've been racking my brain. I've been trying to figure out how Bob Dole's luggage got on my airplane...I told the doctor, I said, 'Look, I'm worried about the next election.' ... A misunderstanding.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Airplane, Doctors

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• Republicans are systematically and deliberately trying to stop millions of American citizens from voting. What part of democracy are they afraid of? I call on Republicans at all levels of government, with all manner of ambition, to stop fear mongering about a phantom epidemic of election fraud. I'm calling for universal, automatic voter registration, every citizen in every state in the union.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Ambition, Epidemics, Government

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• My goal is not to win a straw poll that doesn't mean something. It's to win the election that means everything for the future of the country.

  Mike Huckabee

  Country, Mean, Winning

  "Mike Huckabee lays out path to 2016 Republican nomination; Amb. John Bolton talks NSA surveillance, growth of ISIS". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 24, 2015.

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• Whether or not the President is sleeping well won't be a factor in his re-election. That will depend on what he does while he is awake.

  Bob Schieffer

  Sleep, President, Doe

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. September 2, 2011.

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• President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election.

  David Brooks

  President, Limits, Firsts

  "Shields and Brooks on the pope’s critique of capitalism, Thanksgiving gratitude". "PBS NewsHour" with Hari Sreenivasan, www.pbs.org. November 29, 2013.

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• We've got to be willing to lose the primary in order to win the general election.

  Jeb Bush

  Winning, Order, Willing

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If I were afraid of polls, I never would've been elected in two landslide elections, leading a highest percentage in our state's last election for governor. If I were afraid of polls, we wouldn't have privatized our charity hospital system, we wouldn't cut our state budget 26%, wouldn't have cut over 30,000 state government bureaucrats, wouldn't have done statewide school choice. Here's the real record.

  Bobby Jindal

  Real, School, Cutting

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. June 28, 2015.

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• Elections are about choices. They're about distinguishing one from the other. There is a political element to that, and of course it has to do with policy, as well.

  David Gregory

  Choices, Political, Elements

  GOP Presidential Debate in New Hampshire, archives.nbclearn.com. January 08, 2012.

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• Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls.

  William J. Clinton

  Horse, Race, Unfinished

  "Bill Clinton; Sens. Webb & Kyl; Gov. Paterson". "Meet the Press", www.realclearpolitics.com. September 27, 2009.

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• God help this country if we're now prepared to vote for someone we don't trust. But every election cycle we do things we never dreamed of.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Country, Helping, Vote

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• One thing I like about the United States, and I kind of miss about the United States, is there's an election coming up here in England, but no one's going to have a sign in front of their house. Nobody's going to wear buttons. And in France, same thing. In America I like that people have signs and buttons and bumper stickers. Sometimes you'll smile at someone from a distance, then you'll get up close and you'll see their pin, and you're like, "Oh my god. I wasted a smile on you?"

  David Sedaris

  Distance, America, People

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• It's all about media culture and people on television, and that feeling comfortable, friendly, or warm toward a candidate [in the elections] is a reason people would emotionally attach themselves to that candidate. I get the mechanics of it, I just hate that it's true.

  Michael Schur

  Hate, Media, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's going to be a lot of people that don't like you, and there's nothing you can do about it. Instead of trying to win them over one by one, you need to do things that are getting huge swaths of votes [in the elections].

  Michael Schur

  Winning, People, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Its the details and the human element that makes Recount entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. Its also funny.

  Kevin Spacey

  Play, Details, Elements

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• So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Ideas, Campaigns, Littles

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• Are you excited about the recall election? Arnold's campaign has a new slogan: 'Win one for the groper.'

  David Letterman

  Winning, Campaigns, Excited

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• There's all this talk about Arnold Schwarzenegger. Well, you know where he is now? Visiting Mexico, which I think means that he is definitely going to run for governor. Arnold is smart. He's in Mexico campaigning with the very people who'll be living here by election time.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Smart, Mean

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• In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.

  Salman Khurshid

  Winning, Democracy, Next

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• Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

  Tom Peters

  Procrastination, Thinking, Worst Enemy

  Tom Peters (1999). “The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!”, p.89, Knopf

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• The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics. The growing independence of voters, after all, has been proven by the votes in every Presidential election since my childhood and the tendency, frankly, is on the increase.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wise, Lying, Government

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• A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law...That portion of the sovereignty, to which each individual is entitled, can never be too highly prized. It is that for which we have fought and bled.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Rights, Law, Voting

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• I have to earn re-election. Thats the way I see it.

  Yvette Clarke

  Way

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• No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Matter, Return, Flags

  Finley Peter Dunne (1963). “Mr. Dooley remembers: the informal memoirs of Finley Peter Dunne”

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• Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Teaching, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.110, Algonquin Books

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