Election Quotes
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It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system.
Rudolf Arnheim
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While 2013 will not see a major national election, we can be sure that most Republicans will obstruct and some Democrats will appease.
Eliot Spitzer
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If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.
Kevin Spacey
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The secrecy that shrouded the vote counting by the special election committee cast doubts on the results and lacks transparency.
Hosni Mubarak
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Obviously, we're really upset about the state of the election. It's horrifying, as everybody knows, that we could have a totally fascist president.
Kathleen Hanna
Bikini Kill
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In Nigeria, the hopes of millions have been pinned on me. Everything I do is under the spotlight. If they want to sell papers, they put me on the cover. If they want to gain popular support in an election, they ask for my endorsement. Where does someone like me go when we need a safe place to be and learn? To renew, deepen the foundation of our work, and sharpen our focus? To share experiences, lessons and build relationships with others that can advance our thinking, approach and capacity? We go to the YES! Jam, which gives us all that and so much more.
Hafsat Abiola
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And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.
Rick Mercer
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That's part of what I tried to describe to my team and supporters after the election, there was a lot of disappointment.
Barack Obama
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The Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there's people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you. But if you vote for them you're throwing your vote away.
Rick Mercer
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The people who lost the elections do not want to admit that they really lost, that the one who won was closer to the people and better understood what ordinary voters want. They are absolutely reluctant to admit this, and prefer deluding themselves and others into thinking it was not their fault, that their policy was correct, they did all the right things, but someone from the outside thwarted them. But it was not so. They just lost and they have to admit it.
Vladimir Putin
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You may twist the word freedom as long as you please, but at last it comes to quiet enjoyment of your own property, or it comes to nothing. Why do men want any of those things that are called political rights and privileges? Why do they, for instance, want to vote at elections for members of parliament? Oh! Because they shall then have an influence over the conduct of those members. And of what use is that? Oh! Then they will prevent the members from doing wrong.
William Cobbett
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Ohioans know that he inherited a mess and created a surplus. So, on election day, John Kasich will prevail in Ohio.
Tom Ridge