Elections Quotes
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We do not need an imported system for falsifying elections! We will create our own, one run by the state!
Alexander Lukashenko -
Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.
Adam Cohen
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Education has not traditionally been a large concern in presidential elections, presumably because the president does not run schools.
Brown Campbell -
People in Scotland want the parliament but don't give a toss about the elections.
Irvine Welsh -
If this recommendation is accepted then a repeat of the unfortunate statements that came out of the 2004 internal elections, which brought the party into even higher levels of disrepute would be avoided.
Jack Warner -
Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.
Nate Silver -
Direct elections on the spot to all representative organs, up to the supreme organ, are a better guarantee of the interests of the working population of our boundless country.
Joseph Stalin -
Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks.
Ted Kulongoski
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I'm tired now of the elections.
Barbara Bush -
The elections are behind us and we don't see anything in front of us but the future of Lebanon.
Rafik Hariri -
In the midterm elections, a 102-year-old woman voted for the first time in a U.S. election. Unfortunately, she voted for Woodrow Wilson.
Conan O'Brien -
Why will our elections be universal?Because all citizens, excluding those deprived of vote by court, will have the right to vote and the right to be elected.
Joseph Stalin -
Let me just make this point, John...We're not campaigning anymore. The election's over.
Barack Obama -
Our latest estimate and time frames for new elections is three years.
Laisenia Qarase
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Nigeria shed the last of a succession of brutal military dictatorships in 1997 and adopted a democratic form of government only in 1999. Our elections of 2003, 2007, and 2011 were complicated and fraught with tension, but each one has shown remarkable progress.
Uzodinma Iweala -
A major figure of Croatia and the Balkans has disappeared. We have to hope that the elections that will now take place in Croatia ... will help Croatia in the direction of a democratic country.
Javier Solana -
Coming just days before the presidential elections, it looks like yet another attempt by the Mugabe regime to obstruct the conduct of the election and the ability of the people of Zimbabwe to choose, freely and fairly, who should lead them.
Jack Straw -
Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want.
Charles M. Blow -
We see that this is about more than just South Dakota. It's about the country. The bottom line in all of it is elections matter.
Nancy Keenan -
If racism is not the whole of the Tea Party, it is in its heart, along with blind hatred, a total disinterest in the welfare of others, and a full-flowered self-rationalizing refusal to accept the outcomes of elections, or the reality of democracy, or the narrowness of their minds and the equal narrowness of their public support.
Keith Olbermann
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I am a born fighter throughout my political life. I have not lost my heart by the results of the Parliamentary elections.
H. D. Deve Gowda -
What we have done today is to set down the most concrete benchmarks by which the conditions in which the elections in Zimbabwe are able to take place, with an overriding imperative -- even at this late stage -- of trying to secure as free and fair elections as is possible.
Jack Straw -
Whether he takes notice or not, I'm not sure, but what I am certain about is that if he does not call off his thugs, allow free and fair elections, allow the international media in, then these sanctions will kick in.
Jack Straw -
When my party won the elections convincingly on February 18th, 2008, we immediately reached out to other parties to form broad-based coalitions of national unity in the National Assembly and in the four provincial assemblies.
Asif Ali Zardari