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• People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Elections, War, Lying

• Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Elections, War

• Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections, Opinion, Freedom

• I’m not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

  Peter Albert David Singer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Elections, Accumulation, Alarmist, Dominated, Thereto, Plus, Worry, Wealth

• The way we’re going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we’re going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in.

  Howard Dean

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Elections, Way

• We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections, Duty, Virtue

• In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Elections, Cynicism, Hope, End

• Elections are also about the future – the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.

  Anne Campbell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Equality, Elections, Fairness, Uk, Labour

• Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections, Action

• I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

  Maureen Reagan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Equality, Feminism, Elections, Women

• Then there’s politics. Just imagine politics with its dumbbell element subtracted. There would be no Republican candidates. There would be no Democratic voters. The whole system would collapse.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Elections, Stupidity

• I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.

  W. C. Fields

  Tags in Elections

• The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Elections

• Each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if virtuous, were too frightened to run for office.

  Unknown

  Tags in Elections

• Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between [people], and their beliefs — in religion, literature, colleges and schools — democracy in all public and private life….

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections

•  If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.

  Emma Goldman

  Tags in Elections

• We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

  Walter Cronkite

  Tags in Elections

• It’s exciting; I don’t know whether I’m going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I’m ready for the job. And, if not, that’s just the way it goes.

  George W. Bush

  Tags in Elections, Bushisms

• An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

  George Eliot

  Tags in Elections

• 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 even voting and elections have not destroyed.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Equality, Elections