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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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"There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule." »Samuel Butler
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"I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no general proposition is worth a damn." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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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"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." »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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"A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation." »James Clarke
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"A politician thinks of the next election a statesman, of the next generation." »Eubie
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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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"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." »George Bernard Shaw
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"I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army." »Julius Caesar, (attributed)
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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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"The preamble to the Constitution states We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare... It doesn't say guarantee the general welfare. And it certainly doesn't say give welfare benefits to all the people in the country who aren't doing so well even if the reason they aren't doing so well is because they're sitting on their butts in front of the TV." »P. J. O'Rourke
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle." »Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"Men, in general, are but great children." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"In general we are least aware of what our minds do best." »Marvin Minsky
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"general Failure's Fault. Not Yours." »Anonymous
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"All general statements are false." »Unknown
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"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public." »Scott Adams
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"Who's general Failure and why's he reading my disk" »Anonymous
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