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

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

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

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

H.L. Mencken

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

We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.

Will Rogers

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

Adolf Hitler

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

James Freeman Clarke

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

Joe Biden

We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.

Joshua A. Norton

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

Gore Vidal

I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.

Gene Robinson

We have built a genuine level of enthusiasm and goodwill with people throughout this district. People are really excited about the possibilities this election holds, not just for this district, but because of the message Alabama sent to the rest of the country.

Artur Davis

At election time, we see politicians posturing as if they were in the center, because the center really determines the outcome of American elections, ... Washington Unwrapped.

Richard Darman

Their rejection of Hamas after it had won the election... confirms that there is a Crusader-Zionist war against Muslims.

Osama Bin Laden

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 Vaughn

War, n: A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president’s popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns.

Chaz Bufe

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

T.S. Eliot

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

George Bush

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

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