Quotes: elections
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.
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Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.
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Education has not traditionally been a large concern in presidential elections, presumably because the president does not run schools.
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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.
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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.
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Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
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Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
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I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.
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Al Sharpton
American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host
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I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag.
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In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
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In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.
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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.
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Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage they've shown in making these elections so successful.
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