#election

I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term. ↗

— Ed Rollins

#became #california #campaign #his #i

What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#define #disappointed #elections #fulfilled #had

This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in 'American Idol' than in any US election. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#american idol #any #election #frightening #idol

I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team. ↗

— John Mahoney

#better job #creating #democratic #democratic party #elections

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

Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#cast #counted #elections #fashion #federal

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#implementation #law #many #officials #outcome

Some of the immediate causes of Jack Abramoff's troubles were some Indian elections that went bad for him. ↗

— Joshua Micah Marshall

#bad #causes #elections #him #immediate

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#challenges #discrimination #eliminating #ending #entirely

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#democrats #despair #elections #favor #gloomy