Elections quotes

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◆ Neither Obama nor Romney will be able to 'heal' our 'pockets' during the next four years. The only thing I'm sure about is that George Bush fucked the economy up and everyone is blaming Obama for all that shit!

- Jean-Paul Malfatti100

◆ 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 Hoover99

◆ A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that.

- George Brett99

◆ Where annual elections end, there slavery begins

- John Adams99

◆ 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 Burke99

◆ I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

- Gerhard Schroeder99

◆ This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!

- Dan Quayle99

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

- Franklin Pierce Adams99

◆ Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.

- Imelda Marcos99

◆ 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 Mandela99

◆ 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

- Franklin D Roosevelt99

◆ 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 Reagan99

◆ 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 Bush99

◆ 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.

- Niccolo Machiavelli99

◆ 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 Morgan99