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“Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.”

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Author:Dan Quayle

“A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”

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Book:Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt

Source: Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt

“A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.”

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Author:Carl Sandburg

“The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.”

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Author:Aneurin Bevan

“I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.”

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Author:Pete Seeger

“Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.”

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Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.”

“One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.”

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Author:Cal Thomas

“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.”

Source: Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”

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Author:Gore Vidal

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

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Author:Earl Wilson

“The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.”

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Author:Deng Xiaoping

“Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.”

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Author:Barbara Boxer

“The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

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

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Author:George H. W. Bush

“Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best”

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Author:Otto von Bismarck

“In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.”

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Author:Matt Taibbi

“Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.”

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Author:Albert Camus

“A politician thinks of the next election; a statement of the next generation. A politician looks for the success of his party; a statesman for that of his country. The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician is satisfied to drift.”

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Author:James Freeman Clarke

“Sure, losing an election hurts, but I've experienced worse. And at an age when every day is precious, brooding over what might have been is self-defeating. In conceding the 1996 election, I remarked that "tomorrow will be the first time in my life I don't have anything to do." I was wrong. Seventy-two hours after conceding the election, I was swapping wisecracks with David Letterman on his late-night show.”

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Author:Bob Dole

“Our elections are free-it's in the results where eventually we pay.”

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Author:Bill Stern

“By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.”

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Author:Newt Gingrich

“We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.”

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Book:The American Federationist

Source: The American Federationist

“You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors.”

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Book:A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42

Source: A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42

“Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own side. Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.”

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Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.”

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Author:W. S. Gilbert

“When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.”

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Author:Aberjhani

“Whenever any group can vote in a bloc, and decide the outcome of elections, and it fails to do this, then that group is politically sick.”

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Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

Source: Churchill By Himself

“No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.”

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Book:Great Contemporaries

Source: Great Contemporaries

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

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Author:James Freeman Clarke

“The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for the other guy.”

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Author:William Proxmire

“I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.”

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Author:Eugene V. Debs

“No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.”

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Book:Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

“If liberals think they are losing elections because of the conservative bias in the media, they may as well give up right now.”

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Author:Ann Coulter

“In our system, at about 11:30 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.”

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Author:Walter F. Mondale

“President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus, even as he has relaxed sanctions on Castro's Cuba. He abandoned our friends in Poland by walking away from our missile defense commitments, but is eager to give Russia's President Putin the flexibility he desires, after the election. Under my administration, our friends will see more loyalty, and Mr. Putin will see a little less flexibility and more backbone.”

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