#election

I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#confirmed #control #democratic #effort #electoral

So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#away #crowe #day #election #examples

You know, having been an election monitor in countries across the world, I can tell you that we would never certify another country's election if it had as many flaws in place as we had in Florida. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#another #been #certify #countries #country

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible. ↗

— Ahmed Chalabi

#believe #democracy #elections #hold #i

Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush. ↗

— Vincent Bugliosi

#america #betrayal #bush #deliberately #election

I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling. ↗

— Rob Corddry

#did #during #election #elections #ever

It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#country #did #election #every #except

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