"Elections are rarely perfect." — Richard Holbrooke

"Elections are rarely perfect."

— Richard Holbrooke

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27 Quotes by Richard Holbrooke

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MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the…
A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of…
Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other…
I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws…
Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.
In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect,…
There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and…
I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I…
Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States…
United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a…
The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience…
The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the…

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More Elections Quotes

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The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the… — Lord Acton
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. — Franklin P. Adams
The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I… — Roseanne Barr
Where annual elections end where slavery begins. — John Quincy Adams
We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election.… — Gael Garcia Bernal
I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan. — Benazir Bhutto
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections. — Benazir Bhutto
Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's… — Jello Biafra
Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections. — Jello Biafra
These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the… — Michael Bloomberg
Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996. — Todd Akin

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