Election Quotes
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After President Obama's election in 2008, there was a widespread hope that it would mark an end to unseemly partisan nastiness.
Valerie Plame
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If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
Vincent Bugliosi
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Historically, there hasn't been a significant correlation between gold prices and U.S. elections. Furthermore, history has shown that gold prices tend to fall just before U.S. elections and rise immediately after, and this goes on until the next election.
Fabrizio Moreira
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On election night 2000, I had never met then-Governor Bush, though I'd supported him for years. I believed he would be a strong, optimistic and gracious president with solid conservative principles and a big heart.
Dana Perino
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Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
Adam Michnik
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If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.
Barack Obama
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One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either. That is our belief; that is our creed.
George Meany
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We have a huge struggle for our sense of what a democracy is. We're not living in reality when we think we have some sort of democracy. We're really on the edge. We have two presidents who lost the popular vote but won the election. This is not working.
Louise Erdrich
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
Nate Silver
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George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around.
Karen DeCrow
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The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in.
Warren Christopher
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This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.
Vicky Hartzler