Election Quotes - Page 24

• If a nation wishes, it can have both free elections and slavery.

  Garry Wills

  Wish, Slavery, Nations

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• This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends - not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Bangs, Desperate, Retribution

  "The great campaign of 2010". www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2010.

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• But from the moment George Bush decided to overthrow Saddam, the people who were going to benefit here were the Shia, who are 60 percent of the population. So if you were ever going to have an election, then the Shia would take over.

  Patrick Cockburn

  People, Population, Benefits

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I understand very well that politicians always have to bridge the gap until the next election, even if long-term dangers increase as a result. But as an economist, my time horizon is longer.

  Hans-Werner Sinn

  Bridges, Long, Gaps

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In Russia an authoritarian leader is running the country. You can't fight Putin with elections because he controls them. That's why demonstrations are the most effective approach. Unfortunately Russia has sunk to this primitive level.

  Alexei Navalny

  Running, Country, Fighting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• From 1976, Judy to 1996, we had six presidential elections. And it was run under the Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1974. In all six of them, every candidate agreed to limits of what he could collect in contributions and what he could spend in seeking a nomination. And they all abided by it.

  Mark Shields

  Running, Presidential, Reform

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Ronald Reagan four times accepted the limits in contributions of what he could take, what he could spend, and the public funding for the general elections. So I just think the idea that it didn't work, and didn't work - it did work. It worked brilliantly.

  Mark Shields

  Thinking, Ideas, Four

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• During the election people from visible minorities stood as candidates on both the left and the right. And only one African woman was elected in a very left-wing constituency in Paris. The French don't seem to be ready to elect people from a visible minority. So maybe this society is not ready to have a woman from a foreign background in this important post. That really surprised us, because we thought we had evolved.

  Patrick Gaubert

  Wings, Paris, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We also have no taboos against freedom of expression. Although I am president, I must confront the criticism of party members in my election district once every three months. In addition, people pay close attention to what my wife does and how my children live.

  Nguyen Minh Triet

  Children, Party, Expression

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up the cost, leaving generations of taxpayers obligated to pay off the debt. That's wrong, but neither the U.S. nor Europe has a plan to stop it.

  David Malpass

  Winning, Government, Covered Up

  "And the Crisis Winner Is? Government". "The Wall Street Journal", December 16, 2011.

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• Scientists are supposed to live in ivory towers. Their darkrooms and their vibration-proof benches are supposed to isolate their activities from the disturbances of common life. What they tell us is supposed to be for the ages, not for the next election. But the reality may be otherwise.

  Simon LeVay

  Reality, Ivory Tower, Age

  "Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality". Book by Simon LeVay, Cambridge: MIT Press. p. 9, 1996.

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• Some countries such as Iran and Syria are using the commotion to distract attention from their own problems with the international community. The Palestinians, who have been deeply divided since their election, have found a common enemy in Denmark that unites them. Extremists and fundamentalists are exploiting the conflict to promote their radical agenda and win new members.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Country, Winning, Iran

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Democracy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• During my election campaign I was not giving out empty promises, but invited every member of society to join the efforts to work for a better life in Lithuania.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Giving, Effort, Promise

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Once the impact of climate change becomes visible, politics will react quickly and forcefully. We saw that in Germany in 2002 during the floods on the Elbe River. They, in fact, determined the result of the (general) elections (later that same year).

  Hermann E. Ott

  Impact, Years, Rivers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Boris Nemtsov and I began to argue after Putin's return to the presidency in 2012. In my opinion, there was no longer a realistic chance to achieve regime change through peaceful political means, or real elections. Boris, on the other hand, never lost this hope. He felt that my assessment was premature and said: "You have to live a long time to see changes in Russia." He was deprived of that opportunity.

  Garry Kasparov

  Real, Mean, Opportunity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It was just revealed that Donald Trump hasn't voted in primary elections in over 20 years. Or in simpler terms, Trump hasn't voted in primary elections in over three wives.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Years, Wife, Three

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• The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom; to rig its elections, bribe its politicians, appoint its tyrants and, by every sophisticated means of persuasion and interference, stunt the emergence of young democracies in the name of democracy.

  John le Carre

  War, Mean, Government

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• Every election, Mickey Mouse looks better and better as President.

  Duncan Long

  President, Looks, Mickey

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• In a Balkan country, not so many years ago, a party which had been beaten by a narrow margin in a general election retrieved its fortunes by shooting a sufficient number of the representatives of the other side to give it a majority. . . . Cromwell and Robespierre . . . acted likewise.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Party, Years

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.136, Routledge

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• There are two phases of the redeployment of the Israeli forces in the West Bank: One, to allow elections. Second, after the elections, to help further redeployment.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Two, Phases, West

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• There's sort of a theory that's going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.

  Bonnie Blair

  Perfect, Community, Storm

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• Vote in a national election.

  Bill Vaughan

  Vote

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• Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Years, One Day

  Thomas Jefferson “Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson”, Lulu.com

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• You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.

  Scott Pelley

  Leader, Political, Want

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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