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Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation. -- Simon Sinek
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation. -- James Freeman Clarke
Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation. -- Linda Lingle
It would have been a very, very good thing if the next election after Margaret went we had lost. -- Denis Thatcher
If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election! -- Michele Bachmann
People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election. -- Tatyana Tolstaya
Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward. -- Virginia Foxx
Both sides know the last election was just the beginning of the next election. It's clear there has been no attempt to have any kind of getting along. -- David Keene
If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world. -- Claude Pepper
Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers. -- Jay Leno
We in the Labour party owe it to the people we represent to make sure that we offer a choice at the next election between our Labour values and those of the Conservatives. -- Lucy Powell
I think Social Security should be bipartisan and it should transcend the next election, and you should get the best ideas of the Democrats and of the Republicans, and move forward with the best. -- Jack Kingston
It's a long time until the next election, but it starts now. And if you truly want to see things change in the direction that our country is headed, you have to stay involved. You cannot quit now. -- Deb Fischer
We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared. -- Emperor Norton
Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election. -- Barbara Olson
Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one. -- Lucy Powell
My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them. -- Evan Bayh
You need the commitment of people that aren't worried about that next election, who are going to do the right thing and worry about the next generation. It's called political courage. And I can tell you, with me, you don't have to ask whether I have political courage. -- Jeff Fitzgerald
I've often heard the complaint from both Democrat and Republican voters alike that they hate the fact that politicians get into office and they - and they're fearful, they're fearful to make tough decisions because they think more about the next election than they do about the next-generation. -- Scott Walker
Women now influence the majority of consumer purchases. It is women's votes that will secure victory at the next election, hence the altogether delicious spectacle of Messrs Brown and Cameron vying to tell stories about broken nights and childcare as men once boasted of goals scored or pheasants bagged. -- Allison Pearson
It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in. -- Malcolm Turnbull
I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition. -- Malcolm Turnbull
If the states and territories do not sign up to fundamental reform, then my message is equally simple: we will take this reform plan to the people at the next election - along with a referendum by or at that same election to give the Australian Government all the power it needs to reform the health system. -- Kevin Rudd
When I first came to Congress, the party was supposed to help you. Now, when a new member is sworn in, he or she is told what their dues are - how much they are expected to raise for the party for the next election. It's worse in the Senate. It turns the whole place into a money machine. -- Jim Cooper
If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it. -- Lincoln Steffens
If I kissed my wife in public, I'd lose the next election. -- Yoweri Museveni
In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God. -- David Levithan
The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages. -- Frank Zappa
Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else. -- Tom Coburn
This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States! -- Dan Quayle
Is Stephen Harper using the imagined fear of widespread security threats to score political points before the next election? -- Elizabeth May
It's time to put country ahead of party. It's time to put the next generation ahead of the next election. -- Barack Obama
If the Labour manifesto is a pale shade of austerity, then I believe Labour will be defeated at the next election -- Len McCluskey
Anyone that says the housing crisis can be resolved with one magic bullet or by the next election isn't being honest. -- David Lammy
The Labour Party can go into the next election united behind the most radical manifesto on which we have ever campaigned. -- Roy Hattersley
The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation -- Hillary Clinton
The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election -- George Carlin
In the next election, can we vote to ban those ribbon things that kind of keep clothing on hangers but really just hang out of your armpits? -- Olivia Wilde
I still believe that term limits is the best way to ensure that the next generation, not the next election, is the central concern in our elected bodies. -- Tom Coburn
I intend to vote for President George W. Bush in the next election, because in my view, he is best able to wage the war against international terrorism. -- Ed Koch
I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election. -- Will Rogers
At the next General Election, voters face a clear choice: deregulation and less interference in everyday life with the Conservatives, or yet more regulation and interference under Mr Blair. -- John Redwood
At the next election he'll offer the British public an alternative that provides weight and substance and seriousness in a political debate that is, frankly, increasingly obsessed with modishness and flim-flam. -- Paddy Ashdown
I project that this next election - the 2016 election - if it is about anything thematically, it is going to be about that sense of rage and displacement among white working-class voters. -- Joy-Ann Reid
I understand very well that politicians always have to bridge the gap until the next election, even if long-term dangers increase as a result. But as an economist, my time horizon is longer. -- Hans-Werner Sinn
I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything. -- Robert Penn Warren
Contrary to the prevailing notion that good governance is bad politics, in reality good governance is good politics. A government should work keeping in mind the welfare of future generations, not the next election. -- Narendra Modi
I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected. -- Abraham Lincoln
I've been racking my brain. I've been trying to figure out how Bob Dole's luggage got on my airplane...I told the doctor, I said, 'Look, I'm worried about the next election.' ... A misunderstanding. -- Rush Limbaugh

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