#election

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste. ↗

— David Rockefeller

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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate. ↗

— Orson Welles

#donald #donald duck #duck #election #politicians

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#dictatorship #elections #go #maintain #stake

During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service. ↗

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

#community #community service #dallas #during #election

I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities. ↗

— Stephanie Tubbs Jones

#am #body #conduct #convinced #debate

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains. ↗

— Edward Lawrie Tatum

#better understood #coming #cultures #evolution #mutant

Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color. ↗

— Alveda King

#color #did #election #last #many

I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#defeat #economic #economic problems #election #factor

The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over. ↗

— Mike Rounds

#campaign #election #forget #important #important things

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#democracy-fascism #democracy-freedom #democracy-voting #democrats #elections