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“Six months after 9/11, Jean-Marie Le Pen was almost elected president of France. There were a number of leaders and a number of parties running in the French national elections that year in the spring of 2002. But it ended up being not just a shock across France, and not just a shock across Europe. But it ended up being almost a worldwide shock when in the spring of 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen came in second in those national elections. That put him in a two-man runoff for the presidency of France, spring of 2002.”

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Author:Rachel Maddow

“In that first national election after 9/11 in France, Jean-Marine Le Pen did not win the presidency, but he did get to the final round. He was in the general election. Now, this week, in the first national elections in France after what many people have been calling the French 9/11, the attacks in Paris three weeks ago, this time it`s Jean-Marie Le Pen`s daughter, Marine Le Pen and the National Front, which is still a far right pseudo- fascistic party, they came in first place in France.”

People Firsts Has Beens Stills Three Winning Party Week Fronts Calling Daughter Election Finals Rounds France Paris Pens Presidency Marine Pseudo Marie General Elections

Author:Rachel Maddow

“I think what you've got are millions of people who are in trouble today. They really are. They're confused. They're working longer hours for lower wages. They're seeing productivity going up but their kids are worse off economically than they are. They're looking at a campaign finance system in politics and they see corruption, big money buying elections. Nobody in Congress is listening to them.”

People Thinking Bigs Kids Today Hours Millions Seeing Trouble Listening Election Congress Corruption Productivity Campaigns Finance Confused Buying Wages Campaign Finance

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Where everyman is participator in the government of affairs, not merely at an election one day in the year but everyday, he will let the heart be torn out of his body sooner than his power be wrested from him by a Caesar or a Bonaparte.”

Years Heart Body Government One Day Election Everyday Affair Torn Everyman Bonaparte

Book:Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson

“One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.”

Liberty Depends Election Property Outcomes Right To Life Vicissitudes Liberty Of Speech

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“My view is that the time has come for the international community to act on Zimbabwe in the way that it did in Bosnia. I do not think that we are going to get free and fair elections in Zimbabwe.”

Thinking Way Community Views Fairs Election International International Community Zimbabwe Bosnia

Author:Raila Odinga

“I think it is its time for the leaders of Africa to say to President Mugabe that the people of Zimbabwe's deserve a free and fair election.”

People Thinking President Leader Deserve Fairs Election Zimbabwe Mugabe

Author:Raila Odinga

“It is a big embarrassment that a leader can say on the eve of an election that he cannot hand over power to an opponent, that he can only hand over power to a member of his political party.”

Hands Bigs Political Party Leader Willing Members Election Opponents Political Parties Embarrassment

Author:Raila Odinga

“You cannot have free and fair elections while one party controls completely and monopolizes the instrument of power and .. Tsvangirai is in and out of police cells almost on a daily basis, when people are being arrested, people are being beaten up.”

People Party Fairs Bases Police Election Instruments Cells Beaten Arrested

Author:Raila Odinga

“Most election analysts in the U.S. habitually confuse the sound of money talking with the voice of the people.”

People Sound Voice Talking Election Analysts Money Talks

Book:Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems

Source: Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems

Air Walking Horse Election Buttons Tails Disbelief Showing Off Straight Up Up In The Air

Author:Dan Quayle

“In 1856...I preferred the success of a candidate whose election would prevent or postpone secession, to seeing the country plunged into a war the end of which no man could foretell. With a Democrat elected by the unanimous vote of the Slave States, there could be no pretext for secession for four years.... I therefore voted for James Buchanan as President.”

Men Years War Ends Country States President Four Seeing Vote Election Slave Democrat Candidates Four Years Pretext Secession

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“My goal is always to keep support for Israel a bi-partisan issue and never make a national election any kind of referendum on Israel.”

Kind Goal Support Issues Election Israel Partisans Referendums

Author:Alan Dershowitz

“Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations.”

Government Political Force Nations Leader Position Elements Election Representatives Political Leaders

Book:The World As I See It

Source: The World As I See It

“The elections are run by the same guys who sell toothpaste. They show you an image of a sports hero, or a sexy model, or a car going up a sheer cliff or something, which has nothing to do with the commodity, but it's intended to delude you into picking this one rather than another one.”

Shows Running Guy Sports Car Hero Models Election Sells Sexy Sheer Commodity Cliffs Toothpaste Sports Hero

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The practice of democracy means that I, one person, one humble person, nevertheless feel some responsibility if the officials for whose election I was responsible go too far out of line.”

Ifs Feels Mean Persons Lines Responsibility Practice Democracy Responsible Election Humble Officials Nevertheless Humble Person

Author:Clyde Kluckhohn

“I was watching Discovery Channel the other day, and you know that they have come up with a new theory about how dinosaurs was wiped out? It was a midturn election.”

Knows Theory Discovery Election Come Up Dinosaurs

Author:Jay Leno

“We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two years he did the biggest U-turn on policy of all time and started to go the wrong way. In the end, that cost us the next election.”

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“The election of a man committed to the cause of freedom and the renewal of America's strength has given encouragement to all those who love liberty.”

Men America Given Causes Liberty Encouragement Election Committed Renewal

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“We have made too much of one or two people, and we think that they can win or lose elections for us. Don't be depressed if one particular person transgresses. It doesn't lose an election unless the Party loses faith in itself.”

People Ifs Thinking Persons Made Two Winning Loses Party Too Much Particular Election Win Or Lose

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.”

Higher Politician Promise Paid Election Taxation Borrowing Election Time Politicians Promises

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“I thought this election was an adult discussion on how best to protect ourselves in the face of terrorism, but apparently it was a referendum on boys kissing... When homophobia trumps terrorism in America, wow. This country needs to get laid.”

Needs Country America Faces Boys Trump Protect Kissing Adults Election Terrorism Discussion Wow Homophobia Getting Laid Referendums

Author:Bill Maher

“I know a whole generation has been raised on the notion of multiculturalism; that all civilizations are just different. No! Not always. Sometimes things are better! Rule of law is better than autocracy and theocracy; equality of the sexes, better; protection of minorities, better; free speech, better; free elections, better; free appliances with large purchases, better! Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.”

“US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed.”

Needs College Vote Election Electoral College

Author:Roseanne Barr

“I think George Bush is going to win in a walk. I really believe I'm hearing from the Lord it's going to be like a blowout election in 2004.”

Thinking Believe Winning Walks Lord Election Hearing Blowouts

Author:Pat Robertson

“For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.”

Heart Kind America Opportunity Felt Race Known Seeing My Heart Equal Election Extraordinary Gender Barack Eras Equal Opportunity Milestone New Era Race And Gender

Author:Jesse Jackson

“We will pave the way for a transformation and roll back the years of Thatcherism...We will turn economic ruin into economic recovery, and above all pave the way for a General Election to elect a Labour Government.”

Way Years Government Turns Economic Transformation Election Recovery Ruins Labour General Elections Economic Recovery

Author:Arthur Scargill

“I was delighted that by campaigning throughout England, Scotland and Wales, addressing in all 39 public meetings, I had contributed to the victory of the Conservative Party at this general election.”

Party Victory England Election Meetings Conservative Scotland Delighted Wales Campaigning Conservative Party General Elections

Author:Edward Heath

“Perhaps election fever is developing into something more like sleeping sickness, as the utter boredom of a contest in which almost all the attention seems to be on personalities and polls wears us all down. I just wish they would get on with it.”

Seems Wish Sleep Attention Personality Election Developing Boredom Sickness Contests Polls Fever

Author:Norman Tebbit

“I think everybody is covering their [posteriors] with the Enron scandal and it was very convenient that Sept. 11 came along to deflect the fact that they should never have been in the White House in the first place. What happened in the election was completely corrupt.”

Thinking Should Firsts Has Beens Facts House White Happened Election White House Scandal Convenient Covering Enron Sept 11 Enron Scandal

Author:Sandra Bernhard

“The Labour Party can go into the next election united behind the most radical manifesto on which we have ever campaigned.”

Next United Party Behinds Election Radical Labour Labour Party Manifestos

Author:Roy Hattersley

“Howard Dean is a cruel and extremist demagogue. And Howard Dean is as ignorant on John Ashcroft as he is on national security. If this cruel, loudmouth extremist is the cream of the Democrat crop, next November's going to make the 1984 election look like a squeaker.”

Ifs Looks Next Security Election Democrat Ignorant Cream National Security Crops November Extremist Dean

Author:Tom DeLay

“This is my first week as an American citizen. It's amazing. Now I can vote in the general election - and for American Idol.”

Firsts I Can Week Citizens Vote Election Idols American Citizens American Idol General Elections

Author:Craig Ferguson

“It is not my policy to hit voters during the election.”

Policy Election Voters

Author:William Hague

“Obviously, Turkey is not a typical authoritarian regime, and obviously it's very important that there are free elections. But it's also obvious that this is not a liberal, mature democracy. This is why I call Turkey a wobbly democracy. At any time, it can tip over and fall down.”

Important Fall Democracy Election Obvious Mature Regimes Typical Turkeys Falling Down Free Elections

Author:Elif Safak

“Trustworthiness is the thing that you need the most going to a presidential election. Honest and trustworthy is one of the main questions in any presidential election.”

Needs Honest Election Presidential Trustworthy Presidential Election Trustworthiness

Author:Dana Perino

“I'm not active in politics. I vote as a citizen. And if somebody cares to know what my opinion is at the time of the election, I might or might not share it publicly.”

Ifs Knows Might Care Opinion Share Citizens Vote Election Active

Author:Colin Powell

“The last man to try to run for president advocating a tax increase was Walter Mondale. He lost 49 states in 1984, and the "I'll raise your taxes" reputation haunted him all the way to Minnesota last year, where he lost his 50th state in the Senate election.”

Men Way Trying Years States Running Lasts Lost President Taxes Increase Raises Election Reputation Senate Last Year Advocating Minnesota Tax Increases Walter Mondale

Author:Dick Morris

“Part of my dogsbody job during the 1983 election was choosing Mum's missile-proof clothes. They had to be disposable.”

Jobs Clothes Election Appearance Proof Mum Missiles Disposable

Author:Carol Thatcher

“Bill Clinton gives the appearance of taking stands-for some sort of tax cut, some sort of welfare reform, some sort of balanced budget-but these are ploys, mirages: they exist only to undermine positions taken by the Republicans. He doesn't fight for anything substantive-except of course, re-election. ...He has fallen into the dangerous habit of lip synching the presidency: he gives the appearance of leadership, but not the substance.”

“If President Clinton has his way, we will have a false debate in the 1996 election campaign. It will not engage real political choices - choices framed by our appetite for government services and our distaste for taxes - but rather artificial choices crafted by Clinton to advance his reelection. Clinton has clearly been using the budget as an election platform...I dislike using the word 'lies,' but Clinton exploits such forbearance (widespread in the press) to spread untruths.”

“Republicans are afraid to act in accordance with the election results. Republicans seem to be in denial about election results. It's one thing for Democrats to be in denial about the Republican electoral juggernaut, but it's strange that Republicans are in denial about it too.”

Seems Results One Thing Strange Republican Election Democrat Denial Juggernaut Election Results

Author:Ann Coulter

“Saddam Hussein is a threat, but the threat is not so great that we must be stampeded to provide such authority to this president just weeks before an election.”

President Week Authority Election Threat Saddam Hussein

Author:Robert Byrd

“We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains.”

Needs Looks Persons War Order Next Winning Strong Brain Generations Politician Election Conservative Next Generation Statesmen

Author:Winston Churchill

“The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes.”

People Mean Self Values Asks Stuff Interest My Own Class Middle Taxes Vote Raises Election Raised Middle Class Self Interest

Author:Matt Damon

“I am so happy and proud to learn of Hideo Nomo's election to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He was quite a pitcher and competitor, but he is also a very special and caring person.”

Persons Special Proud Fame Baseball Election Caring Halls Competitors Pitcher Hall Of Fame Baseball Hall Of Fame Caring Person

Author:Tommy Lasorda

“How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?”

President Election Electrons Proton

Book:Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization

Source: Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization

“In the US, first of all, the electoral system has been almost totally shredded. For a long time it's been pretty much run by private concentrated spending but now it's over the top. Elections increasingly over the years have been [public relations] extravaganzas.”

Years Firsts Long Has Beens Running Long Time Relation Election Spending Public Relations Over The Top Electoral Systems

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Regulate the banks, get money out of elections; raise the minimum wage, environmental issues. They're all very important and the Occupy movement made a difference. It shifted not only the discourse but to some extent, action on these issues.”

Made Important Action Differences Issues Movement Raises Election Environmental Minimum Discourse Minimum Wage Get Money Environmental Issues Occupy Movement

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The Media are corporations so... It's the concentrations of private power which have an enormous, not total control, but enormous influence over Congress and the White House and that's increasing sharply with sharp concentration of private power and escalating cost of elections and so on.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

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