Election Quotes - Page 29

• Bill Clinton gives the appearance of taking stands-for some sort of tax cut, some sort of welfare reform, some sort of balanced budget-but these are ploys, mirages: they exist only to undermine positions taken by the Republicans. He doesn't fight for anything substantive-except of course, re-election. ...He has fallen into the dangerous habit of lip synching the presidency: he gives the appearance of leadership, but not the substance.

  Joe Klein

  Taken, Fighting, Cutting

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• If President Clinton has his way, we will have a false debate in the 1996 election campaign. It will not engage real political choices - choices framed by our appetite for government services and our distaste for taxes - but rather artificial choices crafted by Clinton to advance his reelection. Clinton has clearly been using the budget as an election platform...I dislike using the word 'lies,' but Clinton exploits such forbearance (widespread in the press) to spread untruths.

  Robert J. Samuelson

  Real, Lying, Government

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• Republicans are afraid to act in accordance with the election results. Republicans seem to be in denial about election results. It's one thing for Democrats to be in denial about the Republican electoral juggernaut, but it's strange that Republicans are in denial about it too.

  Ann Coulter

  Election Results, Denial, Juggernaut

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• Saddam Hussein is a threat, but the threat is not so great that we must be stampeded to provide such authority to this president just weeks before an election.

  Robert Byrd

  President, Hussein, Week

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• We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains.

  Winston Churchill

  Strong, War, Winning

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• The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes.

  Matt Damon

  Mean, Self, Class

  "Matt Damon: man of the people" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2013.

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• I am so happy and proud to learn of Hideo Nomo's election to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He was quite a pitcher and competitor, but he is also a very special and caring person.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Baseball, Caring, Special

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• How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?

  John Searle

  President, Proton, Electrons

  John Searle (2010). “Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization”, p.12, Oxford University Press

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• In the US, first of all, the electoral system has been almost totally shredded. For a long time it's been pretty much run by private concentrated spending but now it's over the top. Elections increasingly over the years have been [public relations] extravaganzas.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Years, Long

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• Regulate the banks, get money out of elections; raise the minimum wage, environmental issues. They're all very important and the Occupy movement made a difference. It shifted not only the discourse but to some extent, action on these issues.

  Noam Chomsky

  Differences, Issues, Environmental

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• The Media are corporations so... It's the concentrations of private power which have an enormous, not total control, but enormous influence over Congress and the White House and that's increasing sharply with sharp concentration of private power and escalating cost of elections and so on.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, White, House

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• I have been tested. I have beaten breast cancer. I have buried a child. I started as a secretary. I fought my way to the top of corporate America while being called every B word in the book. I fought my way into this election and on to this debate stage while all the political insiders and the pundits told, "it couldn't be done."

  Carly Fiorina

  Children, Cancer, Book

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• I think 9/11 guaranteed that national security is going to be in the forefront of every election.

  George H. W. Bush

  Thinking, National Security, Security

  "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 04, 2007.

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• This election [in 2016] is about electing a president that will restore our economic vibrancy so that the American dream can expand to reach more people and change more lives than ever before. And rebuild our Military and our intelligence programs so that we can remain the strongest nation on earth.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Military, People

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.

  Randall Robinson

  Democracy, Next, Outcomes

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• Bush people didn't like him, and they never liked him. They didn't like him because they don't like democracy. They like you to have an election, but they like you to elect the people they want you to elect.

  Randall Robinson

  People, Democracy, Want

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• I believe that any intelligent person who reads the evidence will come to the same conclusion about 2004 election results . But one will never be able to prove it to an absolute certainty because the votes were never counted in Ohio as the result of an illegal effort by public officials to derail the recount. Even if you do not believe that the election was stolen, there is no dispute that the Republicans made a deliberate, concerted effort to tilt the results in their favor.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Believe, Intelligent, Ohio

  Interview with David Kupfer, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. November 2006.

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• There are two reforms that we need to restore our democracy. The first is campaign finance. We need to get the corporate money out of the election process. And second, we need to resolve the dysfunction in the environment. Looters are running agencies that are supposed to be protecting us from pollution.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Running, Agency, Election Process

  Interview with David Kupfer for The Progressive Magazine, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. November 2006.

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• We need election reform because our elections are being stolen. And these huge powerful voting machine vending companies have privatized the election process in our country.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Country, Powerful, Election Process

  Interview with David Kupfer, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 26, 2006.

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• I proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base - those people should be allowed to vote in the American election.

  Bill Ayers

  Country, Military, Law

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

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• Mexico is divided over the results of its presidential election. The U.S.had offered to send in a task force to help determine the outcome, but unfortunately the Supreme Court is currently not in session.

  Allan Ray

  Presidential, Tasks, Mexico

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• Black Friday, in reality, is a symptom of the plight that 30 years of Reaganomics has brought to working people in America. Right along with the frenzied rise of shoppers willing to fight each other at retail outlets across America, we've been steadily, for the last 30 years, watching the destruction of organized labor ... of decent pay and wages and conditions for working people. ... We have Black Friday today because the wealthy elite have strangled their workers for 32 years, ever since Ronald Reagan's election.

  Thom Hartmann

  Friday, Fighting, Reality

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• The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Government, Law

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• Putting measures like gay marriage on ballots for elections only hurts the gay rights cause and elects more conservative politicians.

  Roseanne Barr

  Hurt, Gay, Rights

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• What kind of leader sends congressmen out on a kamikaze mission in an election year and right before a recess? The kind of leader whose followers are diminishing in number.

  Jed Babbin

  Years, Numbers, Leader

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