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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
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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 principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.
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I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism - that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.
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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
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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
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At one time he was employed on one of the Yiddish dailies, but lost his job during a political campaign, when he refused to write two editorials advocating the election of two opposing candidates, both to appear in the same issue of the newspaper.
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Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.
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Concerned about re-election, interest-group reactions, the media, or fundraising, many legislators have found it in their interest to refuse to cooperate with members of the opposing party - or to treat them as enemies in some kind of war, in which the whole point is to defeat and humiliate them. But the American people have been the real losers.
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase.
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During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically.
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Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent - a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice - that struggle continues.
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Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.
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Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
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Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Having an election with only one candidate running is impossible. This is not a democracy.
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If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.
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If you stand at an election and put a manifesto in front of people saying you're going to improve health care, you have to stick by that.
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