#elect

Newt Gingrich had to work hard - getting Republican candidates to sign the Contract with America - to nationalize the election that swept Republicans to victory in 1994. A Democratic anti-Tea Party campaign would do that for the Republicans - nationalize the election, gratis - in 2010. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#campaign #candidates #contract #democratic #election

Natural selection is not evolution. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

#natural #natural selection #selection

Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes. ↗

— Robert A. Dahl

#electoral #popular #proportion #require #votes

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. ↗

— Frank Dane

#elected #fools #get #side #you

My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#dying #electric #his #lap #me

Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#liberals #only

On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#built #cast #continued #country #decades

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got. ↗

— Stan Getz

#bass #came #electronic #era #even

I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory. ↗

— Terry Gross

#content #fact #faulty #getting #guests

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career. ↗

— Stacy Keach

#did #hurt #objective #possible #probably