#elect

Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this. ↗

— David Axelrod

#any #ballots #come #down #election

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#between #humanist #just #maintains #selection

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics. ↗

— Derek Bailey

#electronic #electronics #i #i think #into

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines. ↗

— Alec Baldwin

#bush #elected #five #judges #lines

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day. ↗

— Brad Henry

#day #democracy #election #election day #far

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#best #democracy #electorate #engaged #informed

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis. ↗

— Antony Beevor

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All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#being #could #difficult #difficult task #elected

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

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