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"The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment." »Jeff Melvoin
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"A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission." »Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
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"A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 9.
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"Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission." »Fred Allen
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"Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many." »Publilius Syrus
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"We Americans have no commission from God to police the world." »Benjamin Harrison
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"I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission." »Robert Burns
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"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election." »Prince Otto
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"A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation." »James Clarke
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"I voted for you during your last election. (To President Richard M Nixon)" »Mao Zedong
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"A politician thinks of the next election a statesman, of the next generation." »Eubie
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"A politician thinks of the next election a statesman of the next generation." »James Clarke
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"An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past." »James Barrett Scotty Reston
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"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." »George Bernard Shaw
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"They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating new discrimination. (Defending his nominees for Civil Rights Commission)" »Ronald Reagan
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"An honest election, under democracy, is an act of innocence which does not take place more than once in the history of a given nation." »Jose Marie Gil Robles, speech in Madrid, 1933
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"Get a good night's sleep and don't bug anybody without asking me. (To re-election campaign manager Clark MacGregor)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day *after* the election." »Cokie Roberts, TV interview in either 1992 or 1996
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"They came out in the millions to show their dogged support for the woman the dictatorship claimed it had defeated in the election." »Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
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"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry." »T. S. Eliot, Quoted in the May, 24 edition of "The Montreal Gazette"
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"In our system, at about 1130 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office." »Walter Frederick Mondale
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"The [Interstate Commerce] commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal." »Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president
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"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election." »Bill Vaughan
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"I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election." »Margaret Hilda Thatcher
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"More important than winning the election, is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party -- the acid, final test." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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"The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election." »Gerald R. Ford
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"The people who cast the votes do not decide an election, the people who count the votes do." »Joseph Stalin
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"It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery." »Bertrand Russell
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"There is nothing more becoming a wise man than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art. Let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters than thy inferiors; shunning always such as are poor and needy, for if thou givest twenty gifts and refuse to do the like but once, all that thou hast done will be lost, and such men will become thy mortal enemies." »Sir W Raleigh, to his Son
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