Election Quotes
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I can`t let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.
Gerhard Schroeder
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each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if vir...
Niccolo Machiavelli
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each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if vir...
Niccolo Machiavelli
Keywords: and :: become :: behaved :: being :: but :: candidate :: city :: corrupt :: disastrous :: each :: election :: even :: for :: had :: hope :: however :: if :: in :: it :: judged :: most :: not :: of :: powerful :: stood :: system :: the :: then :: this :: virtuous :: was :: weak :: well :: when :: who :: worthySource: thinkexist.com
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It will be interesting to see how she reconciles her rhetoric of 2004, when she said that the election (for governor) was all about experience, when in this race, she`s at a decided experience disadvantage.
John Hancock (consultant)
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I can`t let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.
Gerhard Schroeder
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An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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
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The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
Deng Xiaoping
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Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"
Thomas Sowell
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Shaw
Keywords: appointment :: by :: corrupt :: democracy :: election :: few :: for :: incompetent :: many :: substitutes :: theSubject: Competence Quotes :: Democracy QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Shaw
Keywords: appointment :: by :: corrupt :: democracy :: election :: few :: for :: incompetent :: many :: substitutes :: theSubject: Democracy QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Joseph Stalin
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The people who cast the votes don`t decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
Joseph Stalin
Subject: Politics Quotes :: Voting QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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This election is about who`s going to be the next President of the United States!
Dan Quayle
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This election is about who`s going to be the next President of the United States!
Dan Quayle
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
Imelda Marcos
Subject: Elections QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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[about Reese Witherspoon on Election (1999)]: "She inhabited that role fully, but she can do all these other roles. You see a woman in her, not a girl. She`s going to be interesting for a long time."
Alexander Payne
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[Announcing his run for re-election] I have come to realize this job is a magnificent job.
George W. Bush
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[Talking about motherhood and her baby]: "I feel good, I`m proud of Election (1999) and very proud of this [her child]. It couldn`t be a better time. It`s always the right time when it happens. You make it the right time".
Reese Witherspoon
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My no-good Hollywood liberalism, you mean? I don`t know what the right thing to do is. All I know is that when it`s a month before the election, and there are issues that mean so much to me, and someone says "Put your name and your face on this, it might ...
Helen Hunt
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On his role as Carcetti in _The Wire (2002)_: We follow Carcetti`s journey as a minor player in city politics to a major contender in a mayoral election. He was a young guy who was considered an upstart, who saw an opportunity to do something, maybe effec...
Aidan Gillen
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About his follow-up film to Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) and the re-election of President George W. Bush, where Bush won 51% of the popular vote: "We want to get cameras rolling now and have it ready in two, three years. We want to document it. Fifty-one per ce...
Michael Moore
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Everyone always presumes I`m a Republican. I`m not. I couldn`t vote for either one of those guys in the last election. I looked at the pair of them and was like, `What do you want to do - get punched or get kicked?` It was a terrible choice to have to mak...
Mel Gibson
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America is the most powerful country in the world and I think every intelligent country should be concerned about what`s going on here. I`ve got no beef with Brits objecting to our election outcome. I applaud that. I`ll tell you right now, Americans don`t...
Chris Rock
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Vote freedom first. Vote George W. Bush. Everything else is a distant and forgettable second place. This is the most important election since the Civil War. Al Gore, if elected, would have the power to hammer your gun rights right into oblivion. Instead o...
Charlton Heston
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[confirming his 1984 re-election victory to the crowd chanting, "Four more years"]: I think that`s just been arranged.
Ronald Reagan
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Over 50% of Americans don`t agree with the administration [of President `George W. Bush`]; that`s a lot of people. But they don`t get the press. I know myself and my friends in New York were devastated after the last election [2004]. We could hardly stand...
Joan Allen
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[During his re-election campaign in 1984America`s future rests in a thousand dreams inside our hearts; it rests in the message of hope in songs of a man so many young Americans admire: New Jersey`s own Bruce Springsteen. And helping you make your dreams c...
Ronald Reagan
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[victory speech after having won election as Governor of California] I will not fail, I will not disappoint you, I will not let you down.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Young people are the key to this election.
Kinky Friedman
