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• Even as the government dominates the headlines, private entrepreneurs are busy every day working to improve products and services that improve our lives. They do it without taxing us or regulating us, or making us suffer through tedious elections or political debates. They make their products and offer them to us in a way that pleases the consuming public the most. We can choose whether we want them or not.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Government, Entrepreneur, Political

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• With the world in turmoil and doubt, the American people, faithful to the values that have always defined America's identity, have expressed with force their faith in progress and the future. At a time when we must face huge challenges together, your election has raised enormous hope in France, in Europe and beyond.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Europe, America, People

  "Electing Obama Sends Message To The World". "NPR News" with Eric Westervelt, www.npr.org. November 05, 2008.

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• Stephen Harper is trying to load the dice between now and the next election in his own favour. Never before in the history of Canada has a government tried to use its majority to unilaterally change Canada's election laws with no support from any political party.

  Thomas Mulcair

  Party, Government, Law

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• If you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Ideas, People

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• The only thing that would keep me from winning the election is to be caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy

  Edwin Edwards

  Girl, Winning, Boys

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• In our election manifesto is: we keep the right to create money and to bring in circulation, for the cause of the government ... Those who do not share this view, reply us to the issue of paper money is for the banks, the government should stay out of the banking business. I agree with Jefferson's opinion ... and just like him I say again: the issue of money is a matter for the government and the banks should stay out of government activity.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Government, Views, Issues

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• Every election, roughly half the population votes Democrat and the other half votes Republican. Now, I understand why the Republicans get one percent of the vote - the richest one percent.That other percent, someone will have to explain to me.

  Bill Maher

  Population, Half, Vote

  "Coulter Exposes Maher As An Environmental Hypocrite". "Real Time with Bill Maher", www.newsbusters.org. July 9, 2011.

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• Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day.

  Lawrence Block

  New York, Cities, Democracy

  Lawrence Block (2011). “Afterthoughts”, p.73, Open Road Media

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• In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed, the economy is looted, the people are slaves.

  Alex Jones

  Military, People, Choices

  FaceBook post by Alex Jones from Jan 09, 2017

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• Being a little older is not going to win election. Being a little younger might, especially if the older candidates, Hillary Clinton included, can`t make the case that they have learned something that the younger crowd doesn`t know.

  Chris Matthews

  Winning, Crowds, Littles

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• That could be the issue that the party - that the party faces as we get ready to potentially nominate someone who`s utterly unelectable in a general election contest.

  Steve Schmidt

  Party, Issues, Faces

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Six months after 9/11, Jean-Marie Le Pen was almost elected president of France. There were a number of leaders and a number of parties running in the French national elections that year in the spring of 2002. But it ended up being not just a shock across France, and not just a shock across Europe. But it ended up being almost a worldwide shock when in the spring of 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen came in second in those national elections. That put him in a two-man runoff for the presidency of France, spring of 2002.

  Rachel Maddow

  Running, Spring, Party

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• In that first national election after 9/11 in France, Jean-Marine Le Pen did not win the presidency, but he did get to the final round. He was in the general election. Now, this week, in the first national elections in France after what many people have been calling the French 9/11, the attacks in Paris three weeks ago, this time it`s Jean-Marie Le Pen`s daughter, Marine Le Pen and the National Front, which is still a far right pseudo-
  fascistic party, they came in first place in France.

  Rachel Maddow

  Daughter, Party, Marine

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• I think what you've got are millions of people who are in trouble today. They really are. They're confused. They're working longer hours for lower wages. They're seeing productivity going up but their kids are worse off economically than they are. They're looking at a campaign finance system in politics and they see corruption, big money buying elections. Nobody in Congress is listening to them.

  Bernie Sanders

  Confused, Kids, Thinking

  "Sanders: Muslims Are Not Your Enemy And Progressive Values Are The Answer". www.realclearpolitics.com. December 9, 2015.

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• Where everyman is participator in the government of affairs, not merely at an election one day in the year but everyday, he will let the heart be torn out of his body sooner than his power be wrested from him by a Caesar or a Bonaparte.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Heart, Government, Years

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

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• One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Liberty, Outcomes, Vicissitudes

  West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette (1943)

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• My view is that the time has come for the international community to act on Zimbabwe in the way that it did in Bosnia. I do not think that we are going to get free and fair elections in Zimbabwe.

  Raila Odinga

  Thinking, Zimbabwe, Views

  "Foreboding rises over Zimbabwe". news.bbc.co.uk. June 19, 2008.

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• I think it is its time for the leaders of Africa to say to President Mugabe that the people of Zimbabwe's deserve a free and fair election.

  Raila Odinga

  Thinking, Zimbabwe, People

  "Mbeki meets with Zimbabwe's embattled leaders" by Nkepile Mabuse, www.cnn.com. June 18, 2008.

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• It is a big embarrassment that a leader can say on the eve of an election that he cannot hand over power to an opponent, that he can only hand over power to a member of his political party.

  Raila Odinga

  Party, Hands, Leader

  "Kenya's leader urges peacekeepers in Zimbabwe". www.cnn.com. June 24, 2008.

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• You cannot have free and fair elections while one party controls completely and monopolizes the instrument of power and .. Tsvangirai is in and out of police cells almost on a daily basis, when people are being arrested, people are being beaten up.

  Raila Odinga

  Party, Cells, People

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• Most election analysts in the U.S. habitually confuse the sound of money talking with the voice of the people.

  Thomas Ferguson

  Talking, Voice, People

  Thomas Ferguson (2011). “Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems”, p.362, University of Chicago Press

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• Much to popular disbelief, horses walking around during the elections with their tails straight up in the air are not showing off their Bush/Quale buttons.

  Dan Quayle

  Horse, Air, Buttons

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• In 1856...I preferred the success of a candidate whose election would prevent or postpone secession, to seeing the country plunged into a war the end of which no man could foretell. With a Democrat elected by the unanimous vote of the Slave States, there could be no pretext for secession for four years.... I therefore voted for James Buchanan as President.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Country, War, Men

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• My goal is always to keep support for Israel a bi-partisan issue and never make a national election any kind of referendum on Israel.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Israel, Issues, Goal

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• Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations.

  Albert Einstein

  Government, Leader, Political

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.39, Open Road Media

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