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Through the repeated hammer blows of defeat, destruction, and deportation, interpreted by the faithful prophets, Israel has to learn that election is not for comfort and security but for suffering and humiliation.


Lesslie Newbigin


#missions #persecution #faith

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.


Juan Cole


#money #politicians #politics #super-pacs #united-states

I've always found the thousand dollar dinners more unsettling than the twenty-five-thousand dollar ones --- if someone pays the Republican National Committee twenty-five thousand dollars (or, more likely, fifty per couple) to breathe the same air as Charlie for an hour or two, then it's clear the person has money to spare. What breaks my heart is when it's apparent through their accent or attire that a person isn't well off but has scrimped to attend an event with us. We're not worth it! I want to say. You should have paid off your credit-card bill, invested in your grandchild's college fund, taken a vacation to the Ozarks. Instead, in a few weeks, they receive in the mail a photo with one or both of us, signed by an autopen, which they can frame so that we might grin out into their living room for years to come.


Curtis Sittenfeld


#elections #politician-s-wife #politics #money

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.


Jay-Z


#election #music #obama #politics #usa

It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed.


Ian Mcewan


#mutation #natural-selection #nature

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.


James Baker


#frustrating #i #lose #margins #narrow

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.


M. H. Abrams


#audible #background #codes #communications #environment

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.


Chinua Achebe


#always #best #elected #election #facility

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.


Lord Acton


#carrying #democracy #elections #evil #force

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.


Kate Adie


#nothing #reporter #selection #stories






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