#elect

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable. ↗

— Laura Bush

#around #elections #including #just #look

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#affords #any #appointed #as far as #being

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#because #elected #fantasy #give #i

What I think is at stake in 2012, is whether the five or six strong conservatives elected to the Senate in 2010 become 10 or 12. And if that happens, it will fundamentally shift the character of the Senate. It will shift the balance. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#become #character #conservatives #elected #five

Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#elect #even #factions #leader #life

Electronic books live out of sight and out of mind. But printed books have body, presence. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#electronic-books #life

Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game. ↗

— Eric Liu

#elections #fellow #game #i #i wonder

It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America. ↗

— Jon Voight

#country #create #demoralize #election #gain

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#both sides #emotional #jury #looking #manipulate

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor? ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#electricity #energy #exhaustion #futility #sherlock-holmes