#election

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#africa #america #asia #ask #britain

Win or lose, we go shopping after the election. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#election #go #lose #shopping #win

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#certain #contingent #darwin #evolution #merely

Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#first #free #free election #iraqi #iraqi people

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#by the time #candidates #day #each #election

The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#cycle #deep #democracy #drop #elections

Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#conducted #elections #fairly #know #voters

Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election. ↗

— Barbara Olson

#al #al gore #back #been #carry

People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#america #election #far #fix #gone

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ↗

— George Eliot

#declared #election #foxes #interest #lives