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There are elections in which everyone knows that 'the people have spoken' but they don't always know exactly what the people have said. This November's election was different. Not only did the people speak, they spoke clearly. ↗

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

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It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election. ↗

— Bob Kerrey

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It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair. ↗

— Zalmay Khalilzad

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Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks. ↗

— Ted Kulongoski

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If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light. ↗

— Max von Laue

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I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

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Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation. ↗

— Linda Lingle

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A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome. ↗

— Leopoldo Lopez

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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

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I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there. ↗

— Agnes Macphail

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