Election Quotes - Page 2

• Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Political, Voting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1977). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1852-1855”, p.304, Harvard University Press

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• I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Choices, Political, Voting

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• Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.

  Imelda Marcos

  Winning, Shopping, Politics

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

  George H. W. Bush

  Thinking, Political, Politics

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• Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.

  Adolf Hitler

  Eye, Men, Discovery

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People are what this election is all about.

  Patty Berg

  People

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• The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

  Earl Wilson

  Political, Politics, Way

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• Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Funny, Life, Running

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• Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.

  Brendan Gill

  Running, War, Inspirational Life

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• Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.

  Barack Obama

  Horse, Bayonets, Aircraft Carriers

  Third presidential debate between President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney in Boca Raton, Fla., www.npr.org. October 22, 2012.

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• We will not lose this election for lack of money.

  Ed Rendell

  Loses

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• These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Florida, Law, People

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• We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.

  Kate Clinton

  Pride, Gay, People

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• George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.

  Gary Coleman

  Trying, Stories, Argument

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• The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.

  Jeff Miller

  Years, Presidential, Political

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• Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?

  Cynthia Payne

  People, Said, Like Me

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• It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system.

  Sheikh Hasina

  Impossible, Electoral Systems, Reformation

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• I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.

  Tucker Carlson

  Daughter, Mother, Morning

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• Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.

  Dean Koontz

  Two, Choices, Presidential

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• I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Winning, Polls, I Always Win

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• Our elections are free-it's in the results where eventually we pay.

  Bill Stern

  Political, Politics, Pay

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• We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.

  Donna Brazile

  Country, Practice, World

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• It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people.

  Jose Saramago

  People, Accepting, Referendums

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• On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Heart, Land

  The Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920.

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• The purpose of God is the sovereign cause of all that good that is in man, and of all that external, internal and eternal good that comes to man. Not works past, for men are chosen from everlasting; not works present, for Jacob was loved and chosen before he was born; nor works foreseen, for men were all corrupt in Adam. All a believer's present happiness, and all his future happiness springs from the eternal purpose of God.

  Thomas Brooks

  Spring, Past, Men

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