Election Quotes - Page 3

• If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

  James Bovard

  Government, One Day, Noble

  "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

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• But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

  Joe Biden

  Authority, Polls, Palestinian

  "Interview With Colin Powell; Interview With Nabil Sha'ath; Interview With Ehud Olmert". "CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer", edition.cnn.com. January 9, 2005.

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• When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

  Edmund Burke

  People, Leader, Auctions

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.353

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• Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.

  Virginia Foxx

  Moving, Believe, Winning

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  We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

  Ann Richards

  Leadership, Truth, America

  Ann Richards' Address at the Democratic National Convention in Texas, www.nytimes.com. July 19, 1988.

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• It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

  David Suzuki

  Time, Priorities, Environment

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• If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.

  Harry S. Truman

  Hands, People, Want

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• There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.

  Mitt Romney

  People, President, Matter

  "Meet The Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. September 11, 2016.

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• Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out.

  Lindsey Graham

  Views, Issues, Different

  Lindsey Graham at U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's Hearing on The Nomination of John Roberts to be Chief Justice of The Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2005.

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• Can we pray for the reelection of George Bush?

  Sean Hannity

  Praying

  "Hannity & Colmes", www.mediamatters.org. May 27, 2004.

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• I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.

  Pervez Musharraf

  Cutting, Thinking, Politician

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• Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Winning, People, Expecting

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• The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

  Belle Boyd

  Teamwork, Southern, States

  Belle Boyd (1865). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.53

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• Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election

  Michael Reagan

  Party, Winning, Pennsylvania

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• So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.

  Corrine Brown

  Florida, Jim Crow Laws, Two

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• I didn't really feel 100 percent comfortable until we started working on the 2004 election.

  Rob Corddry

  Comedy, Feels, Percent

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• Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Historical, Doe, Slave

  One-Dimensional Man ch. 1 (1964)

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• Votes should be weighed not counted.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Vote, Should

  Friedrich Schiller (1962). “The Bride of Messina: Or, The Enemy Brothers, a Tragedy with Choruses. William Tell. Demetrius; Or, The Blood Wedding in Moscow, a Fragment”

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• The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Freedom, Believe, People

  "Of The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, translated by G. D. H. Cole, III, Ch. 15, 1913.

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• This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.

  James Baker

  Hype, President, Trying

  "36 Days that Gripped the Nation" by CNN, www.cnn.com. January 21, 2001.

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• Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Girl, Growing Up, Women

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• There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.

  Patricia Ireland

  Phones, Doors, People

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• I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

  John Poindexter

  Thinking, Years, Today

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• A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

  Carl Sandburg

  Talking, Should Have, Political

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• Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

  Thomas Sowell

  Usa, America, Political

  Thomas Sowell (2002). “Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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