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Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around. — Randall Robinson

I also believe that if we're serious about change, we need to have a real discussion about public financing for congressional elections. — Barack Obama

Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections. — Winston Churchill

The only way liberals win national elections is by pretending they're not liberals. — Rush Limbaugh

The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections. — John Quincy Adams

In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani. — Conan O'Brien

I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is. — Glenn Greenwald

Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want. — Charles M. Blow

I don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour. — Paul Merton

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them. — Aristophanes

The ballot is stronger than the bullet. — Abraham Lincoln

We do not need an imported system for falsifying elections! We will create our own, one run by the state! — Alexander Lukashenko

Elections are not a beauty contest. It is all about tolerance. — Vladimir Franz

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections. — Danny Strong

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

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else. — Kevin Spacey

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas. — Matt Taibbi

Confucius say ... politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after. — Confucius

Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote. — Rick Mercer

This is an election of hope. It is bringing a new trust. These elections will give new strength to the nation. — Narendra Modi

Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself. — Fatos Nano

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

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

These elections won't be about the manifesto of parties, but about manifesto of the people and their dreams who want peace and prosperity. — Narendra Modi

The United Nations has no business in our elections. — David Vitter

Not a good night for President Obama. He lost elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and he's not doing good in Afghanistan either. — Jay Leno

The Conservatives are so busy focusing on yesterday, they're not focused on tomorrow ... on how elections are won in the 21st century. — Douglas Alexander

We don't vote for people because they are the exact embodiment of our values, but because they are likely to be the most responsive to them. — Charles M. Blow

Elections; when the sheep get to decide which wolf will eat them - rjs — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins. — Susan Estrich

I am and will remain the president of all Cameroonians without exception, and the great winner in these elections is democracy — Paul Biya

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

A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran' who will support one if Obama does it. — Glenn Greenwald

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion. — Noam Chomsky

It's kind of hard to win most elections on anti-family, immorality, and Satan-worship. — Ed Helms

The changes that take place when liberal Democrats replace not so liberal or compassionate Republicans (or Democrats) are merely cosmetic. — David T. Dellinger

Parties that win elections should form the government, not parties that lose elections. — Nicola Sturgeon

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful. — Sarah Palin

Journalists are notoriously prone to exaggerate the beneficial impact of elections and to ignore more complex developments. — Patrick Cockburn

I've been in a lot of elections. — Arlen Specter

2014 Lok Sabha Elections is a battle between good governance agenda of the NDA versus the misgovernance and corruption of the UPA. — Narendra Modi

The sleep of reason encourages the elections. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Elections are futures markets in stolen property. — H.L. Mencken

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. — Che Guevara

Donors don't win elections; voters win elections. — Jeff Sessions

Whenever any group can vote in a bloc, and decide the outcome of elections, and it fails to do this, then that group is politically sick. — Malcolm X

Our nation is rich and our people can be rich. 2014 elections is a fight against poverty. — Narendra Modi

We must train our 'future candidates' on not only how to win elections but how to govern well. — Fela Durotoye

[O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections. — Bruce Fein

Presidents are not elected anymore; they are hired. — Michel Templet

Politics knows no currency. — Ljupka Cvetanova

The elections are the greatest symbol of participation and political reform, — Mohammad Khatami

Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The Tories win elections when they lead on economic competence. — Maurice Saatchi

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. — Theodore Roosevelt

More money is being spent on our elections, with less disclosure of where that money is coming from, than ever before. — Eric Schneiderman

The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government. — Fidel Castro

I believe in public funding of elections, absolutely. But this system iscurrently very antiquated and no longer applies to modern day politics. — Bernie Sanders

It is positive that the change in Finland means a rush in the elections and not in the streets. — Tarja Halonen

If elections could change anything, they would have already made them forbidden. — Unknown

Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately. — Bill Nelson

You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made it doesn't come from elections. — Noam Chomsky

Good luck to progressive candidates in U.S. Senate elections against the usual rich, white, racist, women-hating pricks they run against. — Irvine Welsh

I'm tired now of the elections. — Barbara Bush

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections. — Tony Campolo

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past. — Mark McKinnon

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections. — Dick Morris

I have won elections and I have lost elections. — Hillary Clinton

When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. — Euripides

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform. — John Negroponte

Mandates are not objective realities but subjective interpretations of elections sold successfully by the winning candidate or party. — Thomas E. Mann

Fear sticks like a barb in the mind. Someone cold enough to take advantage of it can attach strings to those barbs and make puppets of men and women. — Lance Conrad

If you present good government, then elections look after themselves. — Jay Weatherill

There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter. — Barack Obama

Take it from me-elections matter. — Al Gore

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

A lie is more profitable than the truth. That is why we have elections. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide

As someone who has led his party through two general elections, I have not always been immune from feeling the pressure of electioneering tactics. — Charles Kennedy

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins. — James Baker

Herbert Hoover versus Al Smith in 1928 was one of the dirtiest elections in American history. — Joseph Cummins

Elections? You can't ignore them and you can't escape them. — Steve Merrick

Elections are a festival of democracy. Everyone must join this festival of democracy and strengthen it. — Narendra Modi

You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections. — Bill James

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections. — Sonny Perdue

If liberals think they are losing elections because of the conservative bias in the media, they may as well give up right now. — Ann Coulter

Elections decide which horde of rats gets to gnaw at the bones. — Lyndsay Faye

Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks. — Ted Kulongoski

The masses who complain about bad leadership must first check their unbiased choices. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If Democrats want to start winning elections in this country, they're going to have to start connecting with voters as well as I connect with my fans. — Zach Braff

After one party loses two elections in a row, there's sort of blood in the water. — Robert Dallek

I think the air is out of the gun control balloon, and I think what popped the balloon is politics and elections. — Wayne LaPierre

We hope for the best, if elections are conducted like this all over South Africa we can indeed say we welcome any results and accept them. — Julius Malema

Not surprisingly, in most Sunni regions there has little appetite for free U.S.-sponsored elections. — Richard Engel

Elections cannot inconvenience me. They ratify my will or I neuter them. — George Hearst

In elections, the undecided vote is usually the deciding factor. — Evan Esar

One thing Republicans understand: In American elections, you have to choose from among only two people - not between the perfect and the good. — Rick Perlstein

Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections. — George Montgomery

Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks. — Jonathan Raban

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections. — Benazir Bhutto