Elections Quote by Christopher Hitchens Download Open image ““The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.”” — Christopher Hitchens ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Elections Politics Politics-of-the-united-states
One knows their capacity to fulfill promises. It should be taken into account before promising the voters. — Uddhav Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the same fate awaits those who believe those promises.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Campaign promises are - by long democratic tradition - the least binding form of human commitment. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
“These people couldn’t be counted on for anything. All of their promises bled into lies.” — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“President Trump is doing a great job of demonstrating that politicians routinely lie to their electorate.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“One of the hallmarks of our politics now is that we tend to elect those who can campaign over those who can lead;” — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
“The president has kept all the promises he intended to keep.” — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
“Campaigns and elections are the process in which democracy separates the willing from the able, and goes with the willing.” — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It isn’t so long since a test of Anglican orthodoxy was applied to anyone seeking to study or teach at Oxford and Cambridge universities.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Patriotism is a fierce love for the nation’s soul - its land, its people, its core, coupled with a burning contempt for a government… — Njau Kihia Copy Share Image
While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are just some… — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American… — Hugh Evans Copy Share Image
Midterms behave very differently than presidential elections. Midterms, for a federal candidate, often times are a referendum on the president, where in presidential years,… — Mike Coffman Copy Share Image
In India, elections happen every year in at least a few states. — Nirmala Sitharaman Copy Share Image
Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price. — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
President Trump used the office of the Presidency to solicit foreign interference in our elections for his own personal, political benefit. — Sharice Davids Copy Share Image
If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
“The Nazi salute was performed by public officials in the USA from 1892 through 1942. The researcher Dr. Rex Curry asks 'What happened to… — Micky Barnetti Copy Share Image
Political analysts tend to overinterpret the results of isolated elections. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
If the elections are a mere fraud, why are terrorists being trained and infiltrated into India at the command of the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency… — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image