Election Quotes - Page 8

• An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Fake People, Peace

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• Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

  John Quincy Adams

  Patriotic, Voting, Slavery

  "Wise Words and Quotes". Book by Vernon K. McLellan (p.281), 2000.

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• Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only when the people - women, men, young people, children - have the ability to change the system of industrial capitalism that has oppressed them since the earliest days of slavery: a system based on class division, patriarchy, and military might, a hierarchical system that subjugates people merely because they are born poor, or female, or dark-skinned.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Children, Military, Dark

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• When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.

  Elizabeth Joan Smith

  Religious, Leader, Agendas

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• We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.

  Joan Blades

  Presidential, Voter Turnout, Voters

  "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.

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• Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.

  Carl Bernstein

  Believe, Presidential, Campaigns

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• If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . . If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.

  Noah Webster

  Happiness, Failure, Men

  Noah Webster (1835). “Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with Propriety, Illustrated by Examples: Designed for Use in Schools and Families”, p.230

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• South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Australia, Giving, Community

  Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Fashion, Variables, Uniforms

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• Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.

  Birch Bayh

  Inspiration, Thinking, John Kennedy

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• A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.

  Pierre Salinger

  Funny, Way, Firsts

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• The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person who is representing Europe.

  Joschka Fischer

  Europe, Issues, People

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• The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Believe, Views, Iraq

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• Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Betrayal, Hands, America

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• I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now.

  Frank Dobson

  Thinking, Years, Leader

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• To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

  John Negroponte

  Thinking, Reform, Bent

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• The United Nations has no business in our elections.

  David Vitter

  Business, United Nations, United

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• I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

  Bob Riley

  Jobs, Thinking, Special

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• The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country.

  Donna Brazile

  Country, Ugly, Exposed

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• Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

  Donna Brazile

  Looks, Finance, Congress

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• And I'm very proud of the 50,000 poll workers and election officials who delivered a free and fair election.

  Ken Blackwell

  Proud, Polls, Workers

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• And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.

  Ken Blackwell

  United States, Tests, Mets

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• The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

  Clive Anderson

  Party, Four, Lasts

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• Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.

  Jim Leach

  Government, Together, Development

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• The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Unique, Voice, Government

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