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“Feed them a few lies encapsulated in patriotism and they will not mind electing even a pompous and megalomaniacal bully as their representative.”

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Book:Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

Source: Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“The best guide I know of is political economist Thomas Ferguson’s “investment theory of politics,” mentioned above, the thesis that to a good first approximation, we can understand elections to be occasions in which groups of investors coalesce to control the state, a very good predictor of policy over a long period, as he shows. For 2008, we would therefore anticipate that the interests of the financial industries, the major funders (who preferred Obama to McCain), would be “most peculiarly attended to” by government policy, in accord with Adam Smith’s maxim. And so we find.”

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Book:Hopes and Prospects

Source: Hopes and Prospects

“Awake, Arise and Vote.”

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Author:Abhijit Naskar

“Better a fool chosen by the people than a sage thrust upon them by tradition.”

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Book:Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either. That is our belief; that is our creed.”

“The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.”

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Author:Jean-Bertrand Aristide

“Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.”

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Author:Beth Simone Noveck

“I think we bring together that broad coalition including Russia to help us destroy ISIS and work on a timetable to get rid of Assad, hopefully through Democratic elections. First priority, destroy ISIS.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.”

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Author:Todd Akin

“In a Democracy, the real rulers are the dexterous manipulators of votes, with their placemen, the mechanics who so skillfully operate the hidden springs which move the puppets in the arena of democratic elections. Men of this kind are ever ready with loud speeches lauding equality; in reality, they rule the people as any despot or military dictator might rule it.”

“As a whole, the election process before the election and on the day of election was successful, and I think Azerbaijan had normal and democratic elections.”

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Author:Ilham Aliyev

“Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.”

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Author:Adam Michnik

“The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election”

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Book:Napalm & Silly Putty

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty

“For liberalism is a delicate thing. It encompasses so much -- constitutional government, democratic elections, freedom of worship, civil rights, free trade -- that we think of it as timeless and universal. But liberalism came into being in a real place and time, like a flame it has wavered in various eras, and it can be snuffed out.”