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American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

Marshall McLuhan

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2

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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3

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

George Bernard Shaw

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4

anytime you see white men suppose to fight each other an you not white, well you know you got trouble, because they blah-blah loud about Democrat or Republican an they huffing an puff about democracy someplace else but relentless, see, the deal come down evil on somebody don have no shirt an tie, somebody don live in no whiteman house no whiteman country.

June Jordan

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5

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

George Bernard Shaw

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6

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Richard Nixon

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7

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

Walter Lippmann

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8

Get the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

Frank Dane

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9

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

W. S. Gilbert

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10

I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.

John F. Kennedy

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11

I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.

W. C. Fields

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12

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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13

If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

Abraham Lincoln

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14

If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.

Harry S. Truman

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15

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

Clare Boothe Luce

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16

Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about character issues. Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.

P. J. O'Rourke

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17

The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.

Kin Hubbard

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18

The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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20

The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.

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21

The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.

Will Rogers

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22

There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.

Will Rogers

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23

Votes should be weighed not counted.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

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24

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Edmund Burke

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25

Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?

Ross Perot

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American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

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.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

Get the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

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

I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.

I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about character issues. Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.

The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.

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.

The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.

The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.

There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.

Votes should be weighed not counted.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?