Quotes About Election

However, researchers have also found that whites who hold implicit biases are convinced that their advocacy for voter IDs is not based on racism but rather on ensuring election integrity.

Thus, the language of election integrity created an acceptable post–civil rights race-neutral cover to allow the myth of massive, rampant voter fraud to continue to do damage. There was Trump's Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, which was based on his 2016 claims that he would have won the popular vote if three to five million illegal votes had not been cast. That commission collapsed with nothing but blank pages in the section on voter fraud.

If the states and territories do not sign up to fundamental reform, then my message is equally simple: we will take this reform plan to the people at the next election - along with a referendum by or at that same election to give the Australian Government all the power it needs to reform the health system.

We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate.

Never re-elect anybody

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.

The little man behind that desk was the joke candidate of election years, best remembered for his trademark yellow bowtie. In Riker's fashion philosophy, bows should be reserved to the pigtails of little girls or the collars of tiny dogs hatched from peanut shells.

The rise of any demagogue never happens overnight, and it's never the result of one election. It occurs because of the slow shift in beliefs and values that follows every self-justifying decision that citizens make. One step at a time.

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies... is a foolish idea. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out" at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

journalists fea their loss of authority in the digital age will undermine their ability to hold government to account. Yet the government has much more to worry about because the internet has empowered vested interests, and Oppositions, in a way that effectively cancel an election result within weeks of the final ballot being counted. p236

Labor provoked the nation's first race-based election in November 1928 by accusing Bruce of putting 'dagoes before heroes'. That election slogan belonged to Ben Chifley, the Labor candidate for the Blue Mountains electorate of Macquarie. '[The government] had allowed so many Dagoes and aliens in Australia that today they are all over the country taking work which rightly belongs to all Australians,' he said.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

Ratzinger was afraid to intervene on a deadlocked Roman Curia, with reformers on one side, and the money changers on the other," wrote author Gianluigi Nuzzi. "So he decided to create a clean slate by bowing out and paving the way for the election of a strong Pope."34

The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost.

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.

This election is about you, your hopes, your dreams, your fears, and what wakes you up at 3 a.m.

even Chosen had the right to choose

Donald Trump got elected because, in his twisted way, he pointed out the huge troubles in our economy and our democracy.

Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again.

At the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a hawkish, nonpartisan research group, at least two people left over the way the think tank responded to Mr. Trump's election.