#election

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#auction #election #every #goods #sale

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

Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections. ↗

— George Montgomery

#democracy #elections #free #like #such

By the same token, I think news has more and more of a pro bono aspect to all the networks. When we do our election coverages throughout this coming year, it's not a money-maker for us. It is more of a public service situation. ↗

— Leslie Moonves

#coming #election #i #i think #more

Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination. ↗

— Dick Morris

#bill #bush #candidates #central #clean

It would have been a very, very good thing if the next election after Margaret went we had lost. ↗

— Denis Thatcher

#been #election #good #good thing #had

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform. ↗

— John Negroponte

#bent #contrary #democratic #elections #i

Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just before I arrived, the first elections for a civilian president in more than 9 years. ↗

— John Negroponte

#arrived #back #before #briefing #civilian

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

Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate. ↗

— Rand Paul

#everybody #looking #participate #something #where