Election Quotes - Page 18

Things on the whole are faster in America; people don't stand for election, they run for office. If a person says he's sick, it doesn't mean regurgitating, it means ill. Mad means angry, not insane. Don't ask for the left-luggage; it's called a checkroom.

Jessica Mitford

Running, Mean, America

Jessica Mitford (2016). “Hons and Rebels: Hons & Rebels”, p.141, Hachette UK

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When you say politics, you conjure a whole bunch of associations: elections, campaigning, debates, fundraising. None of this exists in Russia! We are still fighting not for election victories but for having elections at all.

Garry Kasparov

Fighting, Fundraising, Russia

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It's no go the picture palace, it's no go the stadium,
It's no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums.
It's no go the Government grants, it's no go the elections,
Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension.

Louis MacNeice

Country, Government, Years

'Bagpipe Music' (1938)

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Three of the last four [elections], '06, '08, and '12, were disastrous for Republicans. And they were years in which we just we stayed quiet, we went along the get-along, we didn't stand on principle. The only year that was a good year for Republicans was 2010, when we painted in bold colors, not in pale pastels. We stood for principle. I think winning this fight right now is the most important thing we can do to see significant victories in 2014.

Ted Cruz

Leadership, Party, Fighting

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I have achieved what I set out to achieve when I took over the leadership. The Greens have gone from strength to strength with solid election results and a growing, engaged party membership.

Christine Milne

Party, Gone, Election Results

"Richard Di Natale elected unopposed as new Greens leader after Christine Milne resigns - as it happened" by Daniel Hurst, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2015.

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In the 2012 election, Obamacare, as it's called, and I'll be more polite - the ACA ...was a major issue in the campaign. I campaigned all over America for two months, everywhere I could. And in every single campaign rally I said, 'We have to repeal and replace Obamacare.' Well, the people spoke. They spoke, much to my dismay, but they spoke. And they reelected the President of the United States.

John McCain

Leadership, Party, Health

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The Republicans tend to choose the candidate who came in second place in the last election, and Democrats tend to move on. Ask President Ed Muskie how it worked out to be the front-runner. Ask President Howard Dean how it worked out.

Brian Schweitzer

Leadership, Moving, President

"I Do Not Trust Politicians". Interview with David Weigel, www.slate.com. January 6, 2014.

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Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want.

Charles M. Blow

Passion, Want, Voters

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Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

Mark McKinnon

Winning, Past, Campaigns

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A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations.

James Freeman

Thinking, Generations, Next

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I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

Donald Wuerl

Spirit, Pope, Holy

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During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming out of New Jersey at the time. The long hand that they had-and maybe still do-even had to do with presidential elections.

Martin Scorsese

Hands, Cities, Ideas

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.

Christopher Hitchens

Running, People, Office

Source: www.npr.org

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I think that is also something he [Barack Obama], in the beginning of his presidency, he couldn't really explore and couldn't show. He had to be almost a one-dimensional, stoic leader during that first election.

Jordan Peele

Thinking, Leader, Firsts

Source: www.npr.org

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Two-thirds of the Iranian people would like to be reconciled with the West. They don't like the fanaticism of the governing religious council. It's the only place in the world where the last six elections have been won by the more progressive candidate, two for president, two for the mayors, two for the parliament. So most people there are sympathetic to the world we Americans want to build, whether we're Republicans or Democrats. On the other hand, almost everybody there wants them to have nuclear power. They see it as a status symbol, and a sense of their own security.

William J. Clinton

Religious, Hands, Two

Source: www.foxnews.com

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In every election homophobia has been part of the landscape and in every campaign I've been able to become connected enough to my constituents that they know who I am and that I can be elected on my merits.

Kathleen Wynne

Who I Am, Campaigns, Landscape

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General Wesley Clark commented on Gore endorsing Howard Dean. He said endorsements don't win elections. Hey, in this country, votes don't even win elections.

Jay Leno

Country, Winning, Hey

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The circus doesn't stop. A federal appeals court has postponed the recall election. How stupid are we? Even our recalls get recalled.

Jay Leno

Stupid, Circus, Court

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Elections officials here in California are concerned that having 247 candidates would require a ballot so long it would be difficult to count. Today in Florida they said, 'What? You count the ballots?'

Jay Leno

Florida, California, Long

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As if this whole thing isn't confusing enough, election officials announced this week that the alphabet on the ballot will begin with the letter R, then W, then Q. You know, even Sesame Street is laughing at California now.

Jay Leno

California, Laughing, Confusing

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When we finally have this recall election in October, there could be as many as 200 people on the ballot. And you know what's really scary? Most of them don't know the first thing about driving a state into bankruptcy. They're not experts like Governor Gray Davis.

Jay Leno

People, Scary, Experts

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Governor Gray Davis has asked the California state Supreme Court to delay the October recall vote because he says that's not enough time to put on a fair election. Hey, let me tell you something. If we didn't need a fair election to pick the president of the United States, we don't need a fair election to pick the governor of California.

Jay Leno

California, President, October

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As you may have heard, former President Bill Clinton says he's coming here to California to help Governor Gray Davis in his recall election campaign. Which is ironic, isn't it? When Clinton was president, he couldn't recall anything.

Jay Leno

California, Ironic, President

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You know, something like 90 people who have now filed to run for governor in this recall election. They say there could be as many as 200 people on the ballot. You know, it's really easy to run here in California. All you need is like a couple of signatures, not many, thirty-five hundred bucks, you're on the ballot, like that. I mean, what does it say about California? We have stricter requirements to get on 'American Idol' than we do to run for governor.

Jay Leno

Running, Couple, Mean

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Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.

Beth Simone Noveck

Technology, Democracy, Changed

"Evolving Democracy for the 21st Century" by Beth Simone Noveck, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

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