Election Quotes - Page 28

• The elections are run by the same guys who sell toothpaste. They show you an image of a sports hero, or a sexy model, or a car going up a sheer cliff or something, which has nothing to do with the commodity, but it's intended to delude you into picking this one rather than another one.

  Noam Chomsky

  Sports, Sexy, Running

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• The practice of democracy means that I, one person, one humble person, nevertheless feel some responsibility if the officials for whose election I was responsible go too far out of line.

  Clyde Kluckhohn

  Humble, Mean, Responsibility

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• I was watching Discovery Channel the other day, and you know that they have come up with a new theory about how dinosaurs was wiped out? It was a midturn election.

  Jay Leno

  Discovery, Dinosaurs, Come Up

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• We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two years he did the biggest U-turn on policy of all time and started to go the wrong way. In the end, that cost us the next election.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Years, Two

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• The election of a man committed to the cause of freedom and the renewal of America's strength has given encouragement to all those who love liberty.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Encouragement, America, Liberty

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• We have made too much of one or two people, and we think that they can win or lose elections for us. Don't be depressed if one particular person transgresses. It doesn't lose an election unless the Party loses faith in itself.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Party, Winning, Thinking

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• I thought this election was an adult discussion on how best to protect ourselves in the face of terrorism, but apparently it was a referendum on boys kissing... When homophobia trumps terrorism in America, wow. This country needs to get laid.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Kissing, Boys

  "Bill Maher: I'm Swiss". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• I know a whole generation has been raised on the notion of multiculturalism; that all civilizations are just different. No! Not always. Sometimes things are better! Rule of law is better than autocracy and theocracy; equality of the sexes, better; protection of minorities, better; free speech, better; free elections, better; free appliances with large purchases, better! Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

  Bill Maher

  Sex, Law, Civilization

  "Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home". Documentary, Comedy, 2003.

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• US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed.

  Roseanne Barr

  College, Needs, Vote

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• I will not be able to carry the physical burden of leading the Party at the next general election. I hope it will soon be possible for the customary processes of consultation to be carried on within the Party about its future leadership.

  Harold MacMillan

  Party, Able, Next

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• I think George Bush is going to win in a walk. I really believe I'm hearing from the Lord it's going to be like a blowout election in 2004.

  Pat Robertson

  Believe, Winning, Thinking

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• Every election I have to hold my nose to vote.

  Drew Carey

  Noses, Vote

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• We will pave the way for a transformation and roll back the years of Thatcherism...We will turn economic ruin into economic recovery, and above all pave the way for a General Election to elect a Labour Government.

  Arthur Scargill

  Recovery, Years, Government

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• I was delighted that by campaigning throughout England, Scotland and Wales, addressing in all 39 public meetings, I had contributed to the victory of the Conservative Party at this general election.

  Edward Heath

  Party, Scotland, Victory

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• Perhaps election fever is developing into something more like sleeping sickness, as the utter boredom of a contest in which almost all the attention seems to be on personalities and polls wears us all down. I just wish they would get on with it.

  Norman Tebbit

  Sleep, Boredom, Personality

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• I think everybody is covering their [posteriors] with the Enron scandal and it was very convenient that Sept. 11 came along to deflect the fact that they should never have been in the White House in the first place. What happened in the election was completely corrupt.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Thinking, Enron Scandal, White

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• The Labour Party can go into the next election united behind the most radical manifesto on which we have ever campaigned.

  Roy Hattersley

  Party, Next, Radical

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• Howard Dean is a cruel and extremist demagogue. And Howard Dean is as ignorant on John Ashcroft as he is on national security. If this cruel, loudmouth extremist is the cream of the Democrat crop, next November's going to make the 1984 election look like a squeaker.

  Tom DeLay

  Ignorant, Looks, Next

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• This is my first week as an American citizen. It's amazing. Now I can vote in the general election - and for American Idol.

  Craig Ferguson

  Idols, Citizens, Firsts

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• It is not my policy to hit voters during the election.

  William Hague

  Voters, Policy

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• Obviously, Turkey is not a typical authoritarian regime, and obviously it's very important that there are free elections. But it's also obvious that this is not a liberal, mature democracy. This is why I call Turkey a wobbly democracy. At any time, it can tip over and fall down.

  Elif Safak

  Fall, Turkeys, Democracy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Trustworthiness is the thing that you need the most going to a presidential election. Honest and trustworthy is one of the main questions in any presidential election.

  Dana Perino

  Presidential, Needs, Honest

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'm not active in politics. I vote as a citizen. And if somebody cares to know what my opinion is at the time of the election, I might or might not share it publicly.

  Colin Powell

  Might, Citizens, Care

  "Powell: Don't Let Terrorism Change 'Who We Are'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 2, 2011.

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• The last man to try to run for president advocating a tax increase was Walter Mondale. He lost 49 states in 1984, and the "I'll raise your taxes" reputation haunted him all the way to Minnesota last year, where he lost his 50th state in the Senate election.

  Dick Morris

  Running, Men, Years

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• Part of my dogsbody job during the 1983 election was choosing Mum's missile-proof clothes. They had to be disposable.

  Carol Thatcher

  Jobs, Clothes, Appearance

  "Election quotes of the week". www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2001.

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