“ Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
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“ Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power. ”
- William Ellery Channing- Copy
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“ Given that Mr. Kerry is clearly exaggerating what happened to minority voters in the 2000 election in Florida, maybe we should wait for him to provide evidence of what he is alleging in 2004. ”
- John Fund- Copy
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“ Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. ”
- Thurgood Marshall- Copy
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“ Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. ”
- M. Scott Peck- Copy
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“ I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election. ”
- Pervez Musharraf- Copy
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“ My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement. ”
- Kareem Abdul Jabbar- Copy
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“ I don't know for sure if he'll go on a mission. But it's something he has said he wants to do, and he wants to have that option when it's time to decide. ”
- Tom Jones- Copy
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“ My expectation is to win two governors races in two tough states,... And to come into the '06 election with some momentum, while Republican policies are collapsing. ”
- Bill Richardson- Copy
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“ I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law. ”
- Fisher Ames- Copy
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“ What this country needs is a Congress capable of voting more intelligently than the voters who elect it. ”
- Evan Esar- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind. ”
- Hal A. Lingerman- Copy
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“ In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader. ”
- Rudy Giuliani- Copy
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“ He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end. ”
- Harry Emerson Fosdick- Copy
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“ Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning. ”
- Bergen Evans- Copy
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“ A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation. ”
- James Clarke- Copy
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“ Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. ”
- Alan Corenk- Copy
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“ The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. ”
- Lord Acton- Copy
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“ The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. ”
- Friedrich Hegel- Copy
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“ Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear. ”
- Alan Coren- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ The administration is deliberately choosing a less secure technology without justification. If there were a good reason to choose that technology, then it might make sense. But there isn't. ”
- Bruce Schneier- Copy
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“ To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform. ”
- John Negroponte- Copy
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