Election Quotes - Page 6

• Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections.

  George Montgomery

  Democracy, Viagra, China

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• A fool and his money are soon elected.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

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• Election is always to sanctification. Where there is no visible fruit of sanctification, we may be sure there is no election.

  J. C. Ryle

  May, Fruit, Sanctification

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• Your damnation is your own election, not God’s.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Damnation

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• Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

  Robert Orben

  Inspirational, Political, Feelings

  Robert Orben (2012). “Joke Tellers Handbook”, p.90, Doubleday

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• As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

  Gore Vidal

  Communication, Cities, People

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

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• This election ain't no stinkin' TV show.

  Bradley Whitford

  Tv Shows, Tvs, Shows

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• Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

  Walter Lippmann

  Football, Political, Useless

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• Anytime you see white men suppose to fight each other an you not white, well you know you got trouble, because they blah-blah loud about Democrat or Republican an they huffing an puff about democracy someplace else but relentless, see, the deal come down evil on somebody don have no shirt an tie, somebody don live in no whiteman house no whiteman country.

  June Jordan

  Country, Fighting, Men

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• Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic.

  William J. Clinton

  Ideas, People, Giving

  William J. "Bill" Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

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• I don't look at my pension. It's not as big as yours so it doesn't take as long.

  Barack Obama

  Long, Looks, Bigs

  Second presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y, www.foxnews.com. October 16, 2012.

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• I went to a number of women's groups and said, "Can you help us find folks," and they brought us whole binders full of women.

  Mitt Romney

  Stupid People, Numbers, Groups

  Second presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y, www.foxnews.com. October 16, 2012.

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• The winner of the elections which saw the participation of almsot 30 million people was the Iranian nation and the losers were those who tried to keep people away from the polls.

  Ali Khamenei

  People, Rehabilitation, Saws

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• Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

  Sonny Perdue

  Integrity, Common Sense, Sound

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• If you've got a business - you didn't build that.

  Barack Obama

  Presidential Election, Gangnam Style, Ifs

  Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event in Roanoke, Virginia, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 13, 2012.

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• If everybody who voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

  Barack Obama

  Winning, Shows, We Will Win

  Barack Obama's Speech at a Rally for Senator Murray in Seattle, Washington, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 21, 2010.

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• I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

  Rob Corddry

  Night, Years, Comedy

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• The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over.

  Mike Rounds

  Important, Campaigns, Forget

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• This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!

  Dan Quayle

  Stupidity, President, United States

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• Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

  Gore Vidal

  Issues, Political, Historical

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from May 03, 2011

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• The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.

  Kin Hubbard

  Streets, Candidates

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• In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

  Charles Edison

  Past, Views, Promise

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• I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Contests, Competent

  Interview With Zahid Hussain, newslinemagazine.com. July 2002.

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• I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote - not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know?

  Jello Biafra

  People, Inspire, Helping

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• No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Fighting, Political

  Winston Churchill (1947). “Great Contemporaries”

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