Election Quotes - Page 21

• I think the American people are sophisticated enough and wise enough to make judgments about the candidates and wade through the charges and countercharges that come with the [election 2004] campaign.

  Colin Powell

  Wise, Thinking, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think the American people want to see what we want to see, and that is for the Iraqi people to have a free, open, fair election, for their forces to be built up, for our reconstruction money to be used well, and for Iraqi security forces to take over so we can start bringing our troops home.

  Colin Powell

  Home, Thinking, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Diplomacy never stops, and, with or without an election, it never stops.

  Colin Powell

  Diplomacy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Every three weeks before an election the TV ads expressing great concern about our trade policy and the loss of jobs to China and other low-wage countries. And then it's forgotten about the day after the election.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Jobs, Loss

  "Bernie Sanders Goes Biblical on Income Inequality". Interview with Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. April 2, 2015.

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• As conservatives, as Republicans, we keep winning elections. We got a Republican House, we've got a Republican Senate, and we don't have leaders who honor their commitments. I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

  Ted Cruz

  Commitment, Winning, House

  The first Republican candidates for president GOP debate, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• There is no doubt that the issue of race is always present in American politics and in the politics of any multiracial society. There is also no doubt that for some people it is an element in the manifested hostility to Obama. But I don't think it is the major theme at all. Obama is right when he reminds people: By the way, I was black before the election.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Issues, Race

  "'I Am Optimistic'". Interview with Philip Bethge, Gregor Peter Schmitz and Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. November 02, 2009.

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• Nixon's genius was that he was able to portray himself as the toughest of the anti-communists, and yet run on a platform that he had a plan to end the Vietnam War. And, of course, his plan was to prolong it until his second election - but he didn't tell us that then.

  Harry Shearer

  Running, War, Able

  "How Harry Shearer Discovered the Soul of Richard Nixon". Interview with David Corn, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2014.

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• Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.

  Charles Tillman

  Winning, Competition, Looks

  Source: www.sportsdouchebags.com

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• I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class. What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.

  Adrienne Rich

  Country, Believe, Government

  Source: criticalflame.org

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• Since all signs indicate that we shouldn't participate in this election, participating in the election has no meaning.

  Mohammad Khatami

  Iran, Participating

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• I have talked about the deterioration of the atmosphere between Washington and Moscow. It was quite clear that in the year 1980, which at the same time was an election year in America, these negotiations would not go very far, but immediately after the start of the Reagan administration we in Bonn started to try influencing them on the medium-range nuclear weapons negotiations, and we told them that in our view the best outcome would be zero-zero, zero on either side.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Zero, Views, Years

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• Well I haven't seen any free elections in the Arab world. They may be coming someday, except for in Israel. In Israel, Arabs have a chance to participate in free elections. Nowhere else really.

  Moshe Arens

  Israel, World, May

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

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• I loved the city, so the feeling in 2001 [election] first was shock, then (I was) nervous, then scared but then it's - I really wasn't happy and ecstatic like I thought I (would be). I was immediately hit with the enormity of the responsibility and the fact that most people in that town - particularly those that voted for me were placing their hopes and dreams in me. That is a big, big stressful place to be.

  Kwame Kilpatrick

  Dream, Responsibility, Cities

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• It is not because a part of the government is elective, that makes it less a despotism, if the persons so elected, possess afterwards, as a parliament, unlimited powers. Election, in this case, becomes separated from representation, and the candidates are candidates for despotism.

  Thomas Paine

  Government, Political, Politics

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.186

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• It is unnatural that a pure stream should flow from a foul fountain its vices are but a continuation of the vices of its origin. A man of moral honor and good political principles, cannot submit to the mean drudgery and disgraceful arts, by which such elections are carried. To be a successful candidate, he must be destitute of the qualities that constitute a just legislator: and being thus disciplined to corruption it is not to be expected that the representative should be better than the man.

  Thomas Paine

  Art, Mean, Successful

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• The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress.

  James Madison

  Political, Liberty, Term Limits

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1864). “The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States”, p.116

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• Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else.

  Tom Coburn

  Philosophy, Winning, Self

  Senator Tom Coburn, John Hart (2013). “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders”, p.19, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I still believe that term limits is the best way to ensure that the next generation, not the next election, is the central concern in our elected bodies.

  Tom Coburn

  Believe, Political, Limits

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• Jan Bhagidari is the biggest asset of a democracy. We are increasing it through MyGov, letters from citizens, Mann Ki Baat and other initiatives.

  Narendra Modi

  Democracy, India, Citizens

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• Democracy is such a framework that everyone has the right to live their lives, fix their goals, their aims, their dreams and the ways to achieve them according to their own choice.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, Goal, Choices

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• I have come from outside Delhi, but I give you an assurance that the people in the Government are very capable. I want to awaken and unite that power for the welfare of nation.

  Narendra Modi

  Government, People, Giving

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• I would like to see a contribution-free election that permitted the people to vote as opposed to corporations. There really ought to be no money in the system except what an individual voter or citizen contributes out of his or her own pocket.

  Mickey Edwards

  People, Pockets, Citizens

  Source: www.npr.org

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• To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Crazy, Believe, Political

  Jon Huntsman @JonHuntsman, twitter.com. August 18, 2011.

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• Now I'm running against a woman who, my God, that's all she talks about. Our true heroes, it's the last thing in the world they talk about.

  Joe Walsh

  Running, Hero, World

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• It is absurd to think that anything in us could have the least influence upon our election. Some say that God did foresee that such persons would believe, and therefore did choose them; so they would make the business of salvation to depend upon something in us. Whereas God does not choose us FOR faith, but TO faith. "He hath chosen us, that we should be holy" (Eph. 1:4), not because we would be holy, but that we might be holy. We are elected to boldness, not for it.

  Thomas Watson

  Believe, Thinking, Doe

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