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~ Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most. ~

George Bush

~ Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation. ~

James Freeman Clarke

~ I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you. ~

Will Rogers

~ The election isn't very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street ~

Kin Hubbard

~ The only thing we learn from a new election is we learned nothing from the old ~

Gerald Barzan

~ The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. ~

Earl Wilson

~ Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?" ~

Thomas Sowell

~ In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. ~

Newt Gingrich

~ The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. ~

Lord Acton

~ Advertising is of the very essence of democracy. An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which manufacturer and which product shall be the leader today, and which shall lead tomorrow. ~

Bruce Barton

~ People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced. ~

T. S. Eliot

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

H.L. Mencken

~ The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity ~

Richard Dawkins

~ Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species ~

Konrad Lorenz

~ Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. ~

Barbara Ehrenreich

~ The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same). ~

David Mamet

~ If we look at multiple genes, the ethnic variations--such as the ones we found--are likely to be counterbalanced by other differences. It just happens that we looked at two genes for which the variants favored by selection have a higher frequency in some populations, such as Europeans. It might be that for the next two brain size genes we find, the variants favored by selection will have a higher frequency in Asians or Africans. ~

Bruce Lahn

~ I think there will be a high rate of participation. Most parties appear to have decided to back the process and fight on the election battlefield. ~

Carina Perelli

~ I was pulled over in Massachusetts for reckless driving. When brought before the judge, I was asked if I knew what the punishment for drunk driving in that state was. I said, "I don't know... reelection to the Senate? ~

Emo Philips

~ Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate. ~

Orson Welles

~ The wonderful scope and variety of female loveliness, if too long suffered to sway us without decision, shall finally confound all power of selection. The confirmed bachelor is, in America, at least, quite as often the victim of a too profound appreciation of the infinite charmingness of woman, as made solitary for life by the legitimate empire of a cold and tasteless temperament. ~

Herman Melville

~ We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican. ~

Kate Clinton

~ Millions of votes are thrown out in election after election in this country. Now that's a story. ~

Andrew Lack

~ Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election ~

Adolf Hitler

~ An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod ~

Franklin D. Roosevelt

~ 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

~ In the end, ... that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism, or do we participate in a politics of hope? ~

Barack Obama

~ 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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