#elect

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. ↗

— Bill Gates

#always #change #coal #come #electricity

Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles. ↗

— Bill Gates

#co2 #create #electricity #emerging #energy

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#affinity #african #african american #american #construct

Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years. ↗

— Robert Caro

#anything #being #comes #democracy #elected

You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. ↗

— Robert Caro

#comes #democracy #elected #know #power

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#am #barack #barack obama #been #beloved

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#electricity #humanity #justice #love #me

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#elections #fighting #indispensable #more #part

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#electoral #human #intentions #more #nothing

You're not a leader if you haven't been elected. ↗