Election Quotes - Page 13

• That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.

  Will Rogers

  Trouble, Politician, Interrupting

  Will Rogers (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method.
  [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Voting, Ego, Viva

  "On the Laws". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, III. 15, c. 43 B.C..

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• Elections in L.A. are so different. Here you've got politicians with phony smiles making false promises to voters with fake boobs and bad toupees.

  Jay Leno

  Fake, Promise, Different

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• I am a political recidivist. An incorrigible, repeat voter. A career lever-pusher. My electoral rap sheet is as long as your arm. Over the course of three decades, I have voted for presidents and school board members. I have voted in high hopes and high dudgeon. I have voted in favor of candidates and merely against their opponents. I have voted for propositions written with such complexity that I needed Noam Chomsky to deconstruct their meaning. I have been a single-issue voter and a marginal voter. I have even voted for people who ran unopposed. Hold an election and I'll be there.

  Ellen Goodman

  Rap, School, Careers

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• In my wildest dreams, I never would have thought wed come to the point where were talking about the re-election of a black president.

  Harvey Gantt

  Dream, Talking, Black

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• An election marks the end of the affair; it puts paid to the seduction of the many by the few. Pretty words, fulsome promises. We wind up married, but to whom, to what? We cannot always predict with certainty the future leader from the winning candidate. Some men grow in the job; others are diminished by its demands and its grandeur.

  Anna Quindlen

  Jobs, Winning, Men

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• Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Truth, Judging, Evil

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• You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Class, Lasts, Moses

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.

  Kate Clinton

  People, Activist

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• I don't care if the Koch brothers or Soros spend their money to promote one candidate or another. I care about members of Congress spending 30%-70% of their time raising money from .05% of us. Change the way we fund elections and you change the corruption.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Brother, Care, Way

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2013.

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• I find focusing clearly on the problem is the first step to seeing a solution. The problem is (a) the insane amount of time spent raising money from (b) a freakishly tiny proportion of America. Basically .05% are the "relevant funders" of campaigns, meaning candidates can't help but be overly sensitive to the views of that tiny fraction relative to the rest of us. IF that's the problem, THEN the solution is to spread the funders out: to increase the range of us who are the relevant funders of elections, through schemes like vouchers or coupons given to every voter.

  Lawrence Lessig

  America, Views, Insane

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• A lot of people want me to run for things, for a lot of high offices. The polls always show that I win any election that I'm in. But I don't have any real interest in running for office. I'm more interested in supporting people.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Real, Winning

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• I think it is a cornerstone of our electoral system that you raise electoral funds for elections but that doesn't mean that therefore the implication can be made that the recipients are incapable of transacting their interests and their duties towards people any differently.

  Bill Shorten

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Bill Shorten faces 'difficult' royal commission questioning over political staffer's salary". Interview with Adam Harvey, www.abc.net.au. July 8, 2015.

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• In the United States 95% of the people who win elections have the most money. That's it. So, money is a big part of elections. But that happens all the time.

  George Clooney

  Winning, People, United States

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• [After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!

  Nancy Astor

  Men, Doors, Europe

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• The money that is spent in elections is absolutely unconscionable - even if it's private money. It's true that one's not corrupted by the expenditure of one's own money, but to some extent the system is. We cannot have a system in which the only people you can count on for a vote that doesn't look as though it might be a vote for a special-interest group are people with enormous fortunes.

  Millicent Fenwick

  People, Special, Politics

  Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

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• No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.

  Elisabeth Marbury

  Power, Doe, Influence

  Elisabeth Marbury (1924). “My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences”, New York : Boni and Liveright

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• We all know that election reform takes time. That's because those who have benefited from the system are the ones who fight hardest to preserve it. So if we're going to succeed, we need an independent coalition of citizens who believe in reform, who believe that our election laws should treat every voter equally, who believe that low levels of competition and participation are not healthy for democracy. The Independence Party is helping to build that coalition and I am happy to join you in doing so.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Party, Believe, Independent

  "CBS Evening News", "Campaign '08" segment,, June 20, 2007.

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• In the next election, can we vote to ban those ribbon things that kind of keep clothing on hangers but really just hang out of your armpits?

  Olivia Wilde

  Clothes, Ribbons, Next

  Twitter post from Jun 15, 2013

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• And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet - because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They're a threat to our children's future. And in this election, you can do something about it.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Climate, Hoaxes

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race.

  Hugh Price Hughes

  Race, Political, Progress

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• Politics is the only serious. subject that men think themselves qualified to act upon without any previous education or instruction whatever. If it happened to be astronomy, or botany, or medicine, or law, he would never be allowed to work in any of these arts, or to take a decisive part in the history of any one of these sciences without having, at least, acquired: the A B C of it; but the awful fact of politics is that we do not take the trouble seriously to understand the political situation.

  Hugh Price Hughes

  Art, Men, Thinking

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• Some observers compare elections in some countries with sports events, where people are but spectators. Moreover, elections must not be mere interludes for pushing a lever and then retreating to passivity, for democracy demands committed participation in the daily workings of society.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Sports, Country, People

  "Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order". August 07, 2013.

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• Representative democracy frequently manifests a disconnect between parliamentarians and the people, so that parliamentarians have agendas that do not correspond with the wishes of the electorate. This has led in many countries to apathy, cynicism and large-scale absenteeism in elections. What is needed is not only parliaments, but parliamentarians who genuinely represent the wishes of the electorate.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Country, People, Democracy

  "Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred-Maurice de Zayas". July 01, 2013.

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• I would not be running for President if I didn't believe with all my heart that this is what the vast majority of Americans want for this country. This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. And today, whenever I find myself feeling doubtful or cynical about this possibility, what gives me the most hope is the next generation - the young people whose attitudes and beliefs and openness to change have already made history in this election.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Country, Attitude

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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