Elections Quotes
391 quotes by 334 authors
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The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force…
— Lord Acton
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
— Franklin P. Adams
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The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang…
— Roseanne Barr
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
— John Quincy Adams
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy…
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
— Benazir Bhutto
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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
— Benazir Bhutto
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Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county…
— Jello Biafra
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Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.
— Jello Biafra
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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…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.
— Todd Akin
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Political elections are not life and death.
— Rita Mae Brown
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I'm tired now of the elections.
— Barbara Bush
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Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
— Tony Campolo
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I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten…
— Tucker Carlson
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No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
— Winston Churchill
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I have won elections and I have lost elections.
— Hillary Clinton
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Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved…
— Eric Alterman
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The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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