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Elections

«Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.»
«A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that.»
«I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.»
Author: Gerhard Schroeder | About: Elections | Keywords: election day, hinge, hinge on
«The Democrats think Republicans are stealing elections. The Republicans think Democrats are stealing elections. And those of us independent of the two old parties know they are both right.»
«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»
«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.»
Author: George W. Bush (President) | About: Elections | Keywords: exciting, if not, The Job
«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»
«I mixed up the political program with my shopping list (on the elections)»
«If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.»
«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.»