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“They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.”
Chinua Achebe
“I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.”
Gerhard Schroeder
“You know he[George W. Bush] is there[in the White House] illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.”
Michael Moore
“Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!”
Clara Barton
“No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.”
Winston Churchill
“I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad.”
Jack Handy
“George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.”
Gary Coleman
“We had $100 left on Election night. And a $79 bill at the bar,”
Charles Flynn
“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
“Running away from issues is how you lose elections,”
Howard Dean