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• I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

  Benazir Bhutto

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• The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.

  Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev

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• Elections are rarely perfect.

  Richard Holbrooke

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• Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

  Danny Strong

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• With super PACs, we’ve seen voter turnout go up; interest in elections rise; and the number of competitive races increase. The campaigns of 2010 and 2012 have been more issue-oriented than their predecessors, not less.

  Bradley A. Smith

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• Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

  Herbert Marcuse

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• Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

  Franklin Pierce Adams

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• To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.

  Peter Schuyler

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• A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.

  Bill Vaughan

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections, Patriotism, Voting

• If we were to have a presidential election in Europe it would be an event that would spark a huge interest in people from Lisbon to Helsinki, just like national elections. And it would create a completely different political setting in Europe.

  Wolfgang Schauble

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• I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.

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• Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

  Nate Silver

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• The Iraqi elections were an important first step.

  Brent Scowcroft

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• Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

  Robert Byrne

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  Tags in Elections, Vote

• The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.

  Fred Barnes

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• Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately.

  Bill Nelson

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• The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.

  Bill Kristol

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• I don’t think we can go into important local elections next year… with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we’ve got now.

  Frank Dobson

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• I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.

  Bev Perdue

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• I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.

  Benazir Bhutto

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