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Elections are not a beauty contest. It is all about tolerance. -- Vladimir Franz
Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are. -- Elliott Abrams
Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate discourages the speech that triggers the matching funds. -- Bradley A. Smith
Elections have consequences. -- Judd Gregg
Elections are about the future. -- Nancy Pelosi
Elections are a Western jerk-off. -- John le Carre
Elections matter and voting counts. -- Barack Obama
Elections are futures markets in stolen property. -- H. L. Mencken
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. -- Abraham Lincoln
The jackasses at Elections Canada are out of control. -- Stephen Harper
Elections aren't just about who votes, but who doesn't vote. -- Michelle Obama
Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks. -- Ted Kulongoski
Elections in Nigeria Under My Watch Have Been Credible and Transparent -- Goodluck Jonathan
Elections cannot inconvenience me. They ratify my will or I neuter them. -- George Hearst
Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable! -- Rupert Murdoch
Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want. -- Charles M. Blow
Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used. -- Paul Collier
Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror! -- John Adams
Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government. -- Gerald F. Lieberman
Elections are a festival of democracy. Everyone must join this festival of democracy and strengthen it. -- Narendra Modi
Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past. -- Mark McKinnon
We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It's a joke. It doesn't enforce the law. -- Russ Feingold
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. -- Franklin Pierce Adams
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. -- Franklin Pierce Adams
Elections should be about making the people a part of the development journey. That is when India will move ahead. -- Narendra Modi
Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections. -- Winston Churchill
2014 Lok Sabha Elections is a battle between good governance agenda of the NDA versus the misgovernance and corruption of the UPA. -- Narendra Modi
Elections in L.A. are so different. Here you've got politicians with phony smiles making false promises to voters with fake boobs and bad toupees. -- Jay Leno
Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place? -- C. S. Lewis
Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy. -- Shashi Tharoor
Elections are about choices. They're about distinguishing one from the other. There is a political element to that, and of course it has to do with policy, as well. -- David Gregory
Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders. -- Thomas Sowell
Senator Obama voted against Justice Breyer and Justice Roberts on the grounds that they didn't meet his ideological standards. That's not the way we should judge these nominees. Elections have consequences. -- John McCain
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters. -- Abraham Lincoln
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters." -- Abraham Lincoln
Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They 'want' that. And it's good policy. -- Gail Collins
Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials. -- Will Rogers
Elections officials here in California are concerned that having 247 candidates would require a ballot so long it would be difficult to count. Today in Florida they said, 'What? You count the ballots?' -- Jay Leno
[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a Voice in Elections, and a share in the Government of the Country. -- Benjamin Franklin
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
Experience shows us that most people's votes are based on their biases, not on objective reality. Elections are a collective gut reaction. That any good comes of it at all is the miracle of democracy. -- David Horsey
Elections themselves do not necessarily lead to more corporate uncertainty - quite the reverse, stable democracies create a reliable environment. And elections have caused hardly any change in the basic economic framework in the last few decades. -- Nicholas Bloom
In Maine, we are fortunate to have a Clean Elections system that allows legislators to turn down corporate special interest money. At the national level, Congress should follow Maine's example by empowering the voices of small donors. -- Chellie Pingree
I have chosen to fight against corruption in this country, though I have been advised not to because we are drawing closer to this year's Tripartite Elections. I know I am fighting against people who are smarter, wealthier and advanced. -- Joyce Banda
Elections have consequences. And I fundamentally believe - this is my personal opinion, I know it's a slightly partisan thing to say - to really do what we think needs to be done, we're going to have to win some elections. -- Paul Ryan
Where annual elections end where slavery begins. -- John Quincy Adams
Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections. -- Danny Strong
Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself. -- Fatos Nano
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. -- Winston Churchill
Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work. -- Caroline Kennedy
Mandates are not objective realities but subjective interpretations of elections sold successfully by the winning candidate or party. -- Thomas E. Mann
The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end. -- Viktor Yushchenko
Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible. -- Ahmed Chalabi
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections. -- Noam Chomsky
I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008. -- Jim DeMint
It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people. -- Jose Saramago
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. -- Nelson Mandela
National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood. -- Tariq Ramadan
It's going to be interesting to watch presidential elections in around 2040, when voters can dig up candidates' teenage angst pics and posts from old social media and discussion forum archives. -- Mikko Hypponen
The Washington establishment think Republicans win elections by you don't stand for anything, you keep your head down, you don't rock the boat. You know what? Every time we do that, we get clobbered in the polls. -- Ted Cruz
If you look at attitudes today and where they are headed, it's clear to me that supporting equal rights, including the rights to civil marriage, is a net positive for winning elections, as well as the right thing to do. -- Ken Mehlman
To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up the cost, leaving generations of taxpayers obligated to pay off the debt. That's wrong, but neither the U.S. nor Europe has a plan to stop it. -- David Malpass
It was not my wish to come into politics. I was not a public person; I preferred to spend my birthdays with family and friends. But the 2008 elections were fraudulent, so I decided to finance the opposition to make them stronger. -- Bidzina Ivanishvili
When you think about Twitter and you think what a dumb stupid throwaway technology, and then you have the Iranian elections and it actually saves the day - you can't prejudge technologies now because they have effects you may not have intended. -- Douglas Coupland
Unlike their Western counterparts, Africans take elections very seriously - rising up early to queue patiently in line for hours under the hot sun and cast their ballots. Any misguided attempt to nullify or steal their votes will evoke a strong reaction from them. -- George Ayittey
In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran's theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules. -- Elliott Abrams
We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect. -- Gael Garcia Bernal
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
There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't count the votes right, and so on. That's all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don't take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term 'election.' -- Noam Chomsky
I mixed up the political program with my shopping list (on the elections) -- Loesje
A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that -- George Brett
You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have enough votes on our side -- Herbert Hoover
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
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 -- Kevin Zeese
The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill -- Ted Morgan
The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy -- George F. Will
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first posses the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence -- Edmund Burke
Take it from me-elections matter. -- Al Gore
I'm tired now of the elections. -- Barbara Bush
We deserve elections we can trust. -- Jill Stein
Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections. -- Brent Scowcroft
I've been in a lot of elections. -- Arlen Specter
Political elections are not life and death. -- Rita Mae Brown
Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately. -- Nate Silver
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections. -- Benazir Bhutto
The Iraqi elections were an important first step. -- Brent Scowcroft
Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult. -- Tim Kaine
Dark money has turned our elections into auctions -- Fred DuVal
In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins. -- Susan Estrich
People know elections, like television commercials, are not real. -- William Greider
If elections really changed anything, they would be outlawed. -- Emma Goldman
You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections. -- Bill James
I have won elections and I have lost elections. -- Hillary Clinton
Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections. -- Jello Biafra
You just never know. Crazy things happen in elections. -- Greg Kurstin
The United Nations has no business in our elections. -- David Vitter
What's the point of elections if everything is already decided? -- Dmitry Medvedev
The Tories win elections when they lead on economic competence. -- Maurice Saatchi
In elections, the undecided vote is usually the deciding factor. -- Evan Esar
Statistically there is enough voter fraud to sway zero elections. -- Aasif Mandvi
You can't be too right too soon and win elections. -- George W. Romney
Gun sales have spiked every time Democrats win elections since 1980. -- Mike Cooley
If you present good government, then elections look after themselves. -- Jay Weatherill
We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects. -- Ron Paul
Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections. -- Dick Morris
The elections are the greatest symbol of participation and political reform, -- Mohammad Khatami
Our elections are free-it's in the results where eventually we pay. -- Bill Stern
Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections. -- George McGovern
Organizing free and fair elections is more important than the result itself -- Fatos Nano
I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan. -- Benazir Bhutto
In America, we do cheat. We have people who cheat in elections. -- Rudy Giuliani
If a nation wishes, it can have both free elections and slavery. -- Garry Wills
The Iraqi elections struck a blow to the heart of global terrorism. -- Tony Blair
I would also like to see Russia not interfere in our elections. -- David Remnick
Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections. -- George Montgomery
Parties that win elections should form the government, not parties that lose elections. -- Nicola Sturgeon
However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
The only way liberals win national elections is by pretending they're not liberals. -- Rush Limbaugh
It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues. -- Jesse Ventura
The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television. -- Noam Chomsky

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