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Letter "E" » election
«I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.»
Author: George Bush
(President)
| Keywords:
by election, depending, depending on, dodge, dodged, dodges, dodging, election, election of, glad, reply
«A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.»
«It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.»
Author: Joseph Stalin
(Communist leader, Political Dictator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
cast, casting vote, election, votes
«In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
assassinate, assassinated, assassinating, election, hound, hounded, impeach, impeached, one shot, Presidents, shot, worried
«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 principles and aims as two peas in the same pod»
«Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Competence,
Democracy
| Keywords:
appointment, by election, corrupt, election, election of, incompetent, incompetents, substitutes
«An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
bad blood, bath, election, horror, mud, mud bath
«Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
appointment, corrupt, election, form of government, incompetent, incompetents, substitutes
«Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
auction, auction sale, broker, brokers, election, goods, pillage, pillaging, sale, stolen
«An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
by election, declared, election, election of, foxes, poultry, prolonging, prolongs, sincere, universal
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