Election Quotes - Page 4

• President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.

  Rick Santorum

  College, America, President

  "Romney Motors To Victories, Santorum Slides Back". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 29, 2012.

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• In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

  Barack Obama

  Hope, Cynicism, Ends

  Barack Obama (2008). “Yes, We Can”, p.48, BoD – Books on Demand

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• As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

  Gore Vidal

  Election Time, Action, Language

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.52, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

  Imran Khan

  Sports, Islam, Might

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• In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Men, Letters, Politics

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• Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Finishing, Complaining, Politics

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• Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?

  Ross Perot

  Daughter, Three, Want

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• One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

  Imran Khan

  Sports, Mean, People

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• To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

  Jessica Lange

  Leadership, Men, Mind

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• Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.

  Linda Lingle

  Thinking, Generations, Next

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• The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Freedom, Thinking, Members Of Parliament

  "Of the Social Contract".

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• America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

  Thomas E. Mann

  America, Democracy, World

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• The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history.

  Greg Knight

  Suicide, Party, Pumpkin

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• It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Party, Believe, Insanity

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• If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.

  Pete du Pont

  Winning, Trying, Opponents

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• Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Responsibility, Law, Outcomes

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• We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Witty, Freedom

  "The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin’s Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe’s Neighbors, His Almanack, Comic Drawings". Book by Kin Hubbard, October 1, 1984.

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  The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Presidential

  Speech, 19 May 1856

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• I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Winning, Hands, Political

  "Adlai Stevenson: A Study in Values". Book by Herbert Joseph Muller, p. 174, 1967.

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• Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

  Dorothy Thompson

  Years, Organization, Needs

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• I like PBS. I love Big Bird ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it.

  Mitt Romney

  Pbs, Bird, Pay

  First presidential debate between President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney in Denver, Colorado, www.npr.org. October 3, 2012.

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• With so much at stake in this election, both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan should 'go rogue.'

  Sarah Palin

  Rogues, Should, Stakes

  "Palin to Romney-Ryan: 'Go Rogue'" By Daniel Halper, www.weeklystandard.com. September 22, 2012.

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• Corporations are people, my friend.

  Mitt Romney

  People, Political, Corporations

  "Mitt Romney says ‘corporations are people’". www.washingtonpost.com. August 11, 2011.

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• The American people probably aren't going to fall in love with Mitt Romney.

  John Boehner

  Falling In Love, People, Romney

  "John Boehner: Voters Need Not Love Mitt Romney". www.rollcall.com. June 30, 2012.

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• Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done.

  Mike Turzai

  Winning, Pennsylvania, Done

  "Pennsylvania Republican: Voter ID Laws Are ‘Gonna Allow Governor Romney To Win’" by Annie-Rose Strasser, thinkprogress.org. June 25, 2012.

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