#elect

People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

#hit #just #like #love #make

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room. ↗

— Ray Charles

#force #know #light #like #really

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#civil #civil society #elected #even #ever

Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible? ↗

— Warren Christopher

#be strong #boycott #election #hamas #incredible

You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#election #florida #independent #like #remember

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#against #city #confuse #decadent #destroying

Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and there's a rake inside it, an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

#breaking #car #case #cause #dog

When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#although #around #asked #because #bush

Insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American Dream. That may turn out to be a good re-election strategy for President Obama, but is a demoralizing message for America. ↗

— Chris Christie

#already #america #american #american dream #demonize

What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#british people #coalition #doubted #election #five