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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.

 

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Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.



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Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.

 

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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.

 

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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

 

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Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

 

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Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.

 

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An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod.

 

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

 

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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 even voting and elections have not destroyed

 

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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

 

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Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

 

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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.

 

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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

 

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

 

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Where annual elections end, there slavery begins.

 

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Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.

 

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Those who vote decide nothing; those who count the votes decide everything.

 

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

 

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Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.