#elections

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#hunting #lying #people #war #elections

The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come! ↗

— Patrick Henry

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To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight - it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil - but to be coldly ripped off over and over again by a bunch of bloodless, second-rate schmoes, schmoes you chose, you elected, is not something anyone will take much pleasure in bragging about. ↗

— Matt Taibbi

#elections #politics #religion

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections. ↗

— Benazir Bhutto

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I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year. ↗

— Julian Bond

#back #because #big #big impact #branch

I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#being #dark #disastrous #elections #fed

Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#dismantle #elections #enough #environmental #every

When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#delay #different #different set #elections #else

Like a lot of people, I'm interested in public service and want to do as much as I can to change the direction of this country and will give some consideration to that after midterm elections. ↗

— John Thune

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