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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
Elections quotes by Gore Vidal
Both groups [of pundits] were critics, and that is the heart of the problem. If you are a pundit, you seem so smart when you are telling the President what he did wrong ... This [is] mostly BS. ~ Jeffrey A. Miller
Elections quotes by Jeffrey A. Miller
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
Elections quotes by Charles W. Pickering
On Dec. 1, 1948, after the triumph of the revolution, which insured the final victory of the will of the people expressed through elections, President Jose Figueres abolished the army in my country. ~ Oscar Arias
Elections quotes by Oscar Arias
Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country. ~ Jared Diamond
Elections quotes by Jared Diamond
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election. ~ Adam Michnik
Elections quotes by Adam Michnik
I came to see soldiers as men willing to lay down their lives for the sake of others. They fight for themselves and the generation under immediate attack, but certainly they fight for the futures of free peoples. Decades beyond World War II, I am one who benefited. That I can vote in presidential elections and not bend my knee to Hirohito's grandson is testament to the enduring work of the veterans of World War II. That I can write books for a living instead of sweating in a Third Reich factory is a product of Allied triumph. ~ Marcus Brotherton
Elections quotes by Marcus Brotherton
These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run. ~ Michael Bloomberg
Elections quotes by Michael Bloomberg
The whole thing about elections in Liberia - it's not about the way you take care of people, it's not about the heart, it's about education, according to the perception of some people. ~ George Weah
Elections quotes by George Weah
One of the most unique aspects among many about the USA is that our transitions of 'power' have almost always been peaceful. This is very unique in all of history and in the world today. ~ R. Alan Woods
Elections quotes by R. Alan Woods
The Washington establishment think Republicans win elections by you don't stand for anything, you keep your head down, you don't rock the boat. You know what? Every time we do that, we get clobbered in the polls. ~ Ted Cruz
Elections quotes by Ted Cruz
You're thinking of revolution as a great all-or-nothing. I think of it as one more morning in a muggy cotton field, checking the undersides of leaves to see what's been there, figuring out what to do that won't clear a path for worse problems next week. Right now that's what I do. You ask why I'm not afraid of loving and losing, and that's my answer. Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work--that goes on, it adds up. It goes into the ground, into crops, into children's bellies and their bright eyes. Good things don't get lost.
Codi, here's what I've decided: the very least you can do in you life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyer nor the destroyed. ~ Barbara Kingsolver
Elections quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
We need efforts to integrate the nation, not divide it. The 2014 elections is about voting for India. It is to decide what kind of India we want to create. So Vote for India. Neither for a person, nor for a party, let us Vote for India. ~ Narendra Modi
Elections quotes by Narendra Modi
When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda. ~ Elizabeth Joan Smith
Elections quotes by Elizabeth Joan Smith
It's going to be interesting to watch presidential elections in around 2040, when voters can dig up candidates' teenage angst pics and posts from old social media and discussion forum archives. ~ Mikko Hypponen
Elections quotes by Mikko Hypponen
It's kind of hard to win most elections on anti-family, immorality, and Satan-worship. ~ Ed Helms
Elections quotes by Ed Helms
be fair, when I was young, the elections could not have been less interesting; the mediocrity of the 'political offerings' was almost surprising. A centre-left candidate would be elected, serve either one or two terms, depending how charismatic he was, then for obscure reasons he would fail to complete a third. When people got tired of that candidate, and the centre-left in general, we'd witness the phenomenon of democratic change, and the voters would install a candidate of the centre-right, also for one or two terms, depending on his personal appeal. Western nations took a strange pride in this system, though it amounted to little more than a power-sharing deal between two rival gangs, and they would even go to war to impose it on nations that failed to share their enthusiasm. ~ Michel Houellebecq
Elections quotes by Michel Houellebecq
In 2002, a lot of the pundits didn't get the off-year elections right. In 2004, a lot of people thought I was going down eight days before the election. ~ George W. Bush
Elections quotes by George W. Bush
say what the masses want just to win the masses and never do what the masses want and you will loose the masses ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Elections quotes by Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up the cost, leaving generations of taxpayers obligated to pay off the debt. That's wrong, but neither the U.S. nor Europe has a plan to stop it. ~ David Malpass
Elections quotes by David Malpass
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
Elections quotes by Bill Ayers
Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders. ~ Thomas Sowell
Elections quotes by Thomas Sowell
How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents? ~ John Searle
Elections quotes by John Searle
There are elections in which everyone knows that 'the people have spoken' but they don't always know exactly what the people have said. This November's election was different. Not only did the people speak, they spoke clearly. ~ Kay Bailey Hutchison
Elections quotes by Kay Bailey Hutchison
Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. 'Call-time' is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my 'call-time manager,' and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I'm really good at it. ~ Al Franken
Elections quotes by Al Franken
Voters who throw their emotional weight into elections they know deep down inside won't produce real change in their lives are also indulging in a kind of fantasy. That's why voters still dream of politicians whose primary goal is to effectively govern and maintain a thriving first world society with great international ambitions. What voters don't realize, or don't want to realize, is that that dream was abandoned long ago by this country's leaders, who know the more prosaic reality and are looking beyond the fantasy, into the future, at an America plummeted into third world status. ~ Matt Taibbi
Elections quotes by Matt Taibbi
When parties and elections are financed not by public funds but by private contributions, the political forum is so constrained by the wishes of the dominant interests that the basic measures needed to establish just constitutional rule are seldom properly presented. ~ John Rawls
Elections quotes by John Rawls
Fear sticks like a barb in the mind. Someone cold enough to take advantage of it can attach strings to those barbs and make puppets of men and women. ~ Lance Conrad
Elections quotes by Lance Conrad
I have always thought, genuinely thought, that elections are like world cups. They sometimes look easier from the outside and they are very difficult when you are in the middle of them. ~ John Key
Elections quotes by John Key
Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work. ~ Caroline Kennedy
Elections quotes by Caroline Kennedy
When your actions towards acquiring leadership in any country portrays blatant mischief orchestrated towards disregarding the concepts of the constitution, you do not only become guilty of hijacking power which rightfully belong to the people, but also, you are guilty of violation of the rights of freedom of the same people that you purport to want to lead. Like any match, elections is competition towards democracy, and all competitions have rules that set guidelines in that particular competition. Any violation of such rules renders that competition invalid. True democracy does not condone compromises. True democracy upholds and adheres to the rule of law, for it is the rule of law that can explicitly define democracy. ~ Akuku Mach Pep
Elections quotes by Akuku Mach Pep
Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government. ~ Gerald F. Lieberman
Elections quotes by Gerald F. Lieberman
In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani. ~ Conan O'Brien
Elections quotes by Conan O'Brien
There are change elections and there are 'more of the same' elections, and there was a lot of economic anxiety in the 1992 election and (Bill Clinton) was able to drive a change narrative. after eight years of Barack Obama, it's very difficult to understand what kind of change it is that Hillary Clinton's candidacy could represent. ~ Steve Schmidt
Elections quotes by Steve Schmidt
During elections for the 1776 convention to frame a constitution for Pennsylvania, a Privates Committee urged voters to oppose great and overgrown rich men ... they will be too apt to be framing distinctions in society. ~ Howard Zinn
Elections quotes by Howard Zinn
Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly. ~ Tariq Ali
Elections quotes by Tariq Ali
Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly. ~ Nathan Myhrvold
Elections quotes by Nathan Myhrvold
Look, the United States doesn't have political parties. In other countries, take say Europe, you can be an active member of the political party. Here, the only thing in a political party is gearing to elections, not the other things you do. So it's basically, a way of making people passive, submissive objects. ~ Noam Chomsky
Elections quotes by Noam Chomsky
If you can't, or won't, think of Seymour, then you go right ahead and call in some ignorant psychoanalyst. You just do that. You just call in some analyst who's experienced in adjusting people to the joys of television, and Life magazine every Wednesday, and European travel, and the H-bomb, and Presidential elections, and the front page of the Times, and God knows what else that's gloriously normal. ~ J.D. Salinger
Elections quotes by J.D. Salinger
Well, one thing that has happened is they have had a presidential election in Egypt which has represented progress. Now, we were not happy with everything that happened with the parliamentary elections, and it was not exactly a perfect presidential election in Egypt. ~ Roger Wicker
Elections quotes by Roger Wicker
Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the democratic process and encouraging elections, in spite of the fact that a war was going on in several of these countries. ~ John Negroponte
Elections quotes by John Negroponte
You need brains to be a great president, not to be a president. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Elections quotes by Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When a stupid government is elected in a democratic country, the best thing about this is that you learn the number of stupid people in that country! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Elections quotes by Mehmet Murat Ildan
It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes. ~ Nicola Sturgeon
Elections quotes by Nicola Sturgeon
Donald Trump talks about how he's not going to be controlled by the moneyed interests. Do people understand that he's not giving money to his campaign, he's loaning it because he expects to get money back from those same big donors he decries right now? He's planning on running a general election based upon raising money from those very people. ~ Mitt Romney
Elections quotes by Mitt Romney
The bloggers and online donors represent an important resource for the party, but they are not representative of the majority you need to win elections, ~ Steve Elmendorf
Elections quotes by Steve Elmendorf
The Conservative party found him an embarrassment because he was apt to criticize the party leader in public, the Liberals naturally wanted to defeat him, and the newspapers were out to get him. It was a dreadful campaign on his part, for he lost his head, bullied his electors when he should have wooed them, and got into a wrangle with a large newspaper, which he threatened to sue for libel. He was defeated on election day so decisively that it was obviously a personal rather than a political rejection. ~ Robertson Davies
Elections quotes by Robertson Davies
The billionaire class fully understands what is at stake. That's why a handful of them are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the current elections. Their goal is not to strengthen the middle class, but continue the trend in which the rich are getting richer at the expense of everyone else. ~ Bernie Sanders
Elections quotes by Bernie Sanders
I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do. ~ Ted Cruz
Elections quotes by Ted Cruz
The only candidate I'd allow to play my music would be Bigfoot, and unless we're talking about foraging for squirrels, he's notoriously apolitical. ~ Greg Gutfeld
Elections quotes by Greg Gutfeld
I have an idea about voting, how about on every ballot we include "None of the above". People may laugh at that, but what that is, it is a vote of no confidence in your government and I'm willing to bet that in some elections, 'None of the Above' would win. Imagine if you won the election but lost to 'None of the Above'. Wouldn't that make you re-think your positions? ~ Jesse Ventura
Elections quotes by Jesse Ventura
I shall not rest until, once again, the destinies of our people and our party are joined together again in victory at the next general election Labour in its rightful place in government again. ~ Tony Blair
Elections quotes by Tony Blair
My grandmother was also an active member of the tenants association and a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, and both of my parents were extremely liberal, so I think I grew up in a household that was very politically conscious - we all watched the elections on TV, and we watched the debates. So it was an awareness that we were raised with, and as we grew into young adults, we just naturally became politically active. It was just understood that it was important, that it was our responsibility. ~ Scarlett Johansson
Elections quotes by Scarlett Johansson
It is true that the American colonials have "free elections," in which they have the absolute right to vote for one of two opposing candidates, both of whom have been handpicked and financed by the Rockefeller syndicate. This touching evidence of "democracy" serves to convince most Americana that we are indeed a free people. We even have a cracked Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to prove it. ~ Eustace Mullins
Elections quotes by Eustace Mullins
Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE. ~ Stephen Colbert
Elections quotes by Stephen Colbert
We need a stable government, fast!" I kept saying. "Elections are great in principle but this is no time for high ideals."


The president was cool, a lot cooler than me. Maybe it was all that military training…he said to me, "This is the only time for high ideals because those ideals are all that we have. We aren't just fighting for our physical survival, but for the survival of our civilization. We don't have the luxury of old-world pillars. We don't have a common heritage, we don't have a millennia of history. All we have are the dreams and promises that bind us together. All we have…[struggling to remember]…all we have is what we want to be." You see what he was saying. Our country only exists because people believed in it, and if it wasn't strong enough to protect us from this crisis, then what future could it ever hope to have? He knew that America wanted a Caesar, but to be one would mean the end of America. They say great times make great men. I don't buy it. I saw a lot of weakness, a lot of filth. People who should have risen to the challenge and either couldn't or wouldn't. Greed, fear, stupidity, and hate. I saw it before the war, I see it today. My boss was a great man. We were damn lucky to have him. ~ Max Brooks
Elections quotes by Max Brooks
In 2009, Hamas was relatively new to power. It had won elections just three years earlier and was flexing its newfound strength via a war with its old enemy, Israel, which it officially wants destroyed. ~ Richard Engel
Elections quotes by Richard Engel
I have come to call this shadow government the Deep State...a hybrid association of key elements of government and parts of top-level finance and industry that is effectively able to govern the United States with only limited reference to the consent of the governed as normally expressed through elections ~ Mike Lofgren
Elections quotes by Mike Lofgren
Confucius say ... politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after. ~ Confucius
Elections quotes by Confucius
[Stump speeches] are to oratory what a stump is to a tree. ~ Jon Stewart
Elections quotes by Jon Stewart
I said bluntly that if the president were to follow Mr. Clifford's advice and if in the elections I were to vote, I would vote against the president. ~ George C. Marshall
Elections quotes by George C. Marshall
Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections. ~ Winston Churchill
Elections quotes by Winston Churchill
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Elections quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections. ~ Mario Vargas-Llosa
Elections quotes by Mario Vargas-Llosa
We don't believe that winning elections and winning any amount of votes will win freedom in Ireland. At the end of the day, it will be the cutting edge of the IRA which will bring freedom. ~ Martin McGuinness
Elections quotes by Martin McGuinness
In dictatorship people feared the king, in democracy they fear criticism. ~ Amit Kalantri
Elections quotes by Amit Kalantri
How the Committee of 300 Arranges Elections The term "fair and free elections" has no meaning in the U.S. The candidates for the presidency are selected by the Committee of 300 so in reality it does not matter who "wins" the election and goes on to the White House. The ~ John Coleman
Elections quotes by John Coleman
There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections. ~ David Ogilvy
Elections quotes by David Ogilvy
For example, Shawn Cole, a professor at Harvard Business School, finds that Indian state-owned banks increase their lending to the politically important but relatively poor constituency of farmers by about 5 to 10 percentage points in election years.51 The effect is most pronounced in districts with close elections. The consequences of the lending are greater loan defaults and no measurable increase in agricultural output, which suggest that it really serves as a costly form of income redistribution. ~ Raghuram G. Rajan
Elections quotes by Raghuram G. Rajan
The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television. ~ Noam Chomsky
Elections quotes by Noam Chomsky
Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections. ~ Brent Scowcroft
Elections quotes by Brent Scowcroft
In the 1990s, Islamists in Algeria won elections like the Brotherhood did in Egypt. The Algerian military refused to allow the Islamists to take power. A war erupted, killing between 100,000 to 200,000 people, depending on which estimates are to be believed. ~ Richard Engel
Elections quotes by Richard Engel
We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better. ~ Joan Blades
Elections quotes by Joan Blades
The Iraqi elections struck a blow to the heart of global terrorism. ~ Tony Blair
Elections quotes by Tony Blair
Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you. ~ Dennis E. Adonis
Elections quotes by Dennis E. Adonis
I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials. ~ Dick Murphy
Elections quotes by Dick Murphy
Not everyone would see a passive public as necessarily a bad thing. There are benefits to limiting political engagement to a minority of highly committed citizens, with the majority involving itself only in elections and other major events. This elitist theory exists as as strand within Western democratic thought, with proponents arguing that modern governance is so complex that over-politicisation of issues and over-participation by the masses is an liability: it would add an irrational element to governance that could undermine democracy. Sustainable democracy instead requires a fairly passive mass, such that most matters are debated and settled within the political elite, at least when things are running smoothly ~ Cherian George
Elections quotes by Cherian George
Democracy saved you from being a slave, now don't try to be someone's master. ~ Amit Kalantri
Elections quotes by Amit Kalantri
Consider all tabulation systems infected by bad actors until a third party, not affiliated with the manufacturer or election officials, proves they are secure. ~ James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute For Critical Infrastructure Technology
Elections quotes by James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute For Critical Infrastructure Technology
Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately. ~ Bill Nelson
Elections quotes by Bill Nelson
I think it is dangerous to confuse the idea of democracy with elections. Just because you have elections doesn't mean you're a democratic country. They're a very vitally important part of a democracy. But there are other things that ought to function as checks and balances. If elections are the only thing that matter, then people are going to resort to anything to win that election. ~ Arundhati Roy
Elections quotes by Arundhati Roy
Ukraine is going through a difficult time. There is nothing extraordinary of the resignation of the Ukrainian government ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections ~ Vladimir Putin
Elections quotes by Vladimir Putin
Of course, the latter made no secret of his attitude toward the Jewish people, and when necessary he even took the whip to drive from the temple of the Lord this adversary of all humanity, who then as always saw in religion nothing but an instrument for his business existence. In return, Christ was nailed to the cross, while our present-day party Christians debase themselves to begging for Jewish votes at elections and later try to arrange political swindles with atheistic Jewish parties- and this against their own nation. ~ Adolf Hitler
Elections quotes by Adolf Hitler
While 1857 was about 'Swaraj ki ladai', the 2014 elections would be about 'Surajya ki ladai'. ~ Narendra Modi
Elections quotes by Narendra Modi
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable - the art of the next best ~ Otto Von Bismarck
Elections quotes by Otto Von Bismarck
I think it is a cornerstone of our electoral system that you raise electoral funds for elections but that doesn't mean that therefore the implication can be made that the recipients are incapable of transacting their interests and their duties towards people any differently. ~ Bill Shorten
Elections quotes by Bill Shorten
Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny. ~ Cormac McCarthy
Elections quotes by Cormac McCarthy
Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights. ~ Garry Kasparov
Elections quotes by Garry Kasparov
It's all about media culture and people on television, and that feeling comfortable, friendly, or warm toward a candidate [in the elections] is a reason people would emotionally attach themselves to that candidate. I get the mechanics of it, I just hate that it's true. ~ Michael Schur
Elections quotes by Michael Schur
I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is. ~ Glenn Greenwald
Elections quotes by Glenn Greenwald
The general election's taking place today in Iraq, so I guess that means we're one step closer to being there for another 10 years. ~ David Letterman
Elections quotes by David Letterman
At the federal level, this problem could be greatly alleviated by abolishing the Electoral College system. It's the winner-take-all mathematics from state to state that delivers so much power to a relative handful of voters. It's as if in politics, as in economics, we have a privileged 1 percent. And the money from the financial 1 percent underwrites the microtargeting to secure the votes of the political 1 percent. Without the Electoral College, by contrast, every vote would be worth exactly the same. That would be a step toward democracy. ~ Cathy O'Neil
Elections quotes by Cathy O'Neil
Corruption is the bane of Nigeria. Buhari is against corruption. Buhari is not corrupt. He is very clean and disciplined. Election rigging is worse than armed robbery. Buhari wants free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria. ~ Tam David-West
Elections quotes by Tam David-West
Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice. ~ Anne Campbell
Elections quotes by Anne Campbell
Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern. ~ Dick Morris
Elections quotes by Dick Morris
We may like to think politics is a battle of ideas and that the best idea wins out. But that's not true in most elections. Most elections are about the worst ideas losing, not the best ideas winning. ~ Chuck Todd
Elections quotes by Chuck Todd
One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state. ~ Noam Chomsky
Elections quotes by Noam Chomsky
And so it happened, that when others bent their knee, he refused and added loudly that his ancestors in their time bowed no knee to any stinking mayor. And in his ancestors' time the mayor was elected anyhow, and kicked out at will, and that the only people that inherited anything by right of birth were the congenital idiots. ~ Isaac Asimov
Elections quotes by Isaac Asimov
Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy. ~ Robert Kennedy
Elections quotes by Robert Kennedy
My father once told me that American democracy is a people's democracy at heart, and that it therefore can be as great as the American people, or as fallible. It depends on all of us. But our system is more fragile than we know. To sustain it, we must always cherish the ideals on which it was founded, remain vigilant against the dark forces that threaten it, and actively engage in the process of making it work. ~ George Takei
Elections quotes by George Takei
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