#election

According to various polls conducted, the single most important issue in last week's election was not the Iraq War, not the War on Terror, not even the economy. It was the cultural war. ↗

— John Doolittle

#conducted #cultural #cultural war #economy #election

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#favors #history #human #human history #natural

It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#australia #better #better place #beyond #election

It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election. ↗

— Malcolm Wallop

#alien #allow #believes #election #established

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#elder #election #fastest #lose #politician

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. ↗

— Deng Xiaoping

#about #brags #during #election #else

The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle. ↗

— Lalu Prasad Yadav

#battle #been #bureaucracy #commission #election

This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day. ↗

— Danny Glover

#always #been #concept #country #day

Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#determines #different #different view #election #friends

It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

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