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“We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.”
Will Rogers
“An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.”
George Bernard Shaw
“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. Bush
“The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.”
“Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only dec”
Rosa Luxemburg
“Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste”
“A fool and his money are soon elected.”
“A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.”
James Freeman Clarke
“Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.”
Imelda Marcos
“Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?”
Robert Orben
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