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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

George Bernard Shaw

Unfortunately, I really don't see much by way of the election in the fall.

Andrew Smith

Re-election doesn't lead us. These are good issues.

Lydia Lenker

I hope they don't win the election.

Richard Meier

It's a little late for them to come in here and dictate the timing of our election.

Rep. Randy Hinshaw

The U.N. is not going to conduct an independent review of the election results.

Robert Sullivan

George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.

Gary Coleman

There is only one opinion poll that I am interested in and that is the one that will take place on election day.

Michael Howard

The market had already discounted the election results.

Roberto Galvan

In which democratic country does the government, on the eve of an election, rewrite the rules?

Piero Fassino

Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.

Imelda Marcos

Would in fact precipitate an election.

Tony Valeri

We concur with the Joint Election Management Board that the candidates' demand to nullify the election is unjustified.

Robert Barry

At this hour we still don't know whether the president has been chosen or if his election will be delayed until April 2.

Oscar Fonseca

Without a special election date being set, it's not an emergency.

Anthony Kostelecky

In preparing for the election we want to equip all our people with their ID documents.

Nkosana Sibuyi

I think they do that not just with the election, but in general.

Charley Pride

He dug himself into a hole with the special election. He's out of the hole now. He's not back on top of the mountain, but he's out of the hole.

Tim Hodson

It's an election year and we're just beginning to sound the alarm on this.

Nino Amato

I know he's running for re-election. I would expect him to say that.

Peter Strianse

We'll assess this project for reliability, ease of use ... but I have no way of knowing if these votes are the ones that will decide this election.

Susan Hansen

Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.

Adam Michnik

In America, we have an open election process. The candidates must do their part.

Ben Beakes

For the next election (in December), it wouldn't surprise me to see it go right back up to 160,000 again.

Lawrence Di Rita

It's a very convenient time to do it. I'd like to remind you again, this is an election year.

Betty Gray

We have won this election. We have won both the presidential and parliamentary vote.

Ofwono Opondo

We are having an election that ideologically is probably the most important that we've ever had.

Reuven Hazan

All the decisions are based entirely on the election code.

Scott Haywood

It's tainted because it violates the spirit of the law. The point of the Clean Election Act is to set this barrier between contributors and the candidate.

Marvin Druker

It has nothing to do with an election year. We believe the underlying earnings are what really count.

Kevin Caron

Voters have proven their independence in this election.

Richard Hilmer

We are convinced that President Bush has won re-election.

Andy Card

Is there election fatigue?

Sherry Bebitch Jeffe

This issue has caused some divisions among the people in the church during the last election.

William Levada

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

Gerhard Schroeder

The detected violations were of procedural character and do not influence the election results.

Lidiya Yermoshina

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

Gerald Barzan

Really pleased to be where we are being so far out from the election.

Wayne Rogers

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Otto von Bismarck

The recall failed. Let's have another recall on (Election Day) May 2.

Rudy Langford

This election is very important for the city.

Pat Schmidt

We should maintain the election date and elect a new prime minister.

Reuven Rivlin

There is no immediate rush for a special election.

David Brehm

You just never know until Election Day.

John Roll

I would hope this becomes an issue in the 2006 election and becomes a factor in voter conduct.

Larry Weber

It will be one of the major issues in this election.

Dan Rice

I'm not going to get into dissecting election results or predicting the future.

Paul Krell

Obviously as a politician he has moved a little bit to get himself in position to run for re-election.

Neal Thigpen

The conservative majority should win the election but the margin is very narrow.

Roland Cayrol

The first opportunity for a general election is Nov. 6, 2007, so we'll start with that date.

Pam Dedent

He has every intention to seek re-election. But I'm going to let the senator make his own announcement.

Tom Gavin

It's concise and it won't be any surprise for those who have followed us on the last election campaign.

Rob Nicholson

It's not necessary for me to know who I voted for. What I'm concerned about is, if it is a close election, you can't double-check it. It's a safeguard.

Bryce King

Those rules are important in monitoring the integrity of the election.

Jonah Brown

We expect that the president will discuss the issue with the chief election commissioner and take a decision.

L.k. Advani

This may be the most important [Senate] election in the last half-century.

Lloyd Smith

I will debate Don anyplace, anytime between now and the election.

David Kramer

Prior to the next election.

William Murphy

I think this is important that this is coming before the council in an election season.

Dennis Rosa

The interesting thing about that was that his election was in July and 45 days later, we had 9/11.

Dawn Hudson

There could even be a double election for both houses, cast as a referendum on constitutional revisions.

Yasunori Sone

We should have a fantastic first quarter, especially with the pre-election budget coming in.

Chua Hak Bin

One can only conclude that they (magistrates) want to interfere with the election campaign.

Niccolo Ghedini

We think that it will be legitimate and it will be a free and democratic election.

Fareed Ayar

The Congress Government is doing all these things to get the minority support during the coming Assembly election.

Dilip Saikia

The new constitution is one issue that's most likely to be bound together either with the LY election of 2007 or even the presidential election.

Su Chi

It's a way for the president to deliver some support to states that are battleground states during an election.

Russell Sobel

This time is different. Last time they were boycotting. This time they were practically begging us to open election centers.

Hussain Hindawi

The acid test of the election will be implementing the results.

Duncan Bullivant

This midterm election is really a referendum on the war, it's a referendum on the Bush policies.

Michael Berg

All the chemistry for a big election is beginning to take shape.

Rahm Emanuel

Today we are no closer (to an agreement). What we're dealing with here is an election campaign.

Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz

This doesn't have a little to do with the upcoming election. It has everything to do with the upcoming election.

Chris Redfern

It's probable that there may not have been a change even if we were not having an election tomorrow: They had cuts in April and May, so it was a case of wait-and-see anyway this month.

Michael Taylor

He's decided the African-American community is more important to his re-election than the Jewish community. He doesn't care about ending discrimination.

Bill Brady

Every vote that goes to a PC candidate that should be going to Lois is a concern to us. It could cost Lois the election.

Rita Smith

The UK could face a digital winter of discontent during the run-up to the next general election.

Philip Virgo

Americans are not going to have the kind of insight into this election as they have had in the past.

Jim Norman

This budget is unreal. This is an election budget.

Audley Shaw

I just believe it's wrong. Do it after the May election; otherwise it smacks of campaigning.

Jan Hibbard

There is a substantial amount that takes place in the week before an election.

Denis Kennedy

We not only need to know who we are, we need to tell people who we are. We didn't have much to say in this election.

Al From

We anticipate that with this bond election, we will be able to do the same thing we did in 2000. We don't expect this to have an impact on the tax rate.

Ray Laughter

I'm running because the day after election day, I was mad.

Ken Dryden

We had our best election result in 2005 and we have a responsibility to use that to take us forward.

Sir Menzies Campbell

Every election there is always an effort to get more people to vote.

Mayor Michael O'reilly

A lot of students already have taken off, including the election commission.

Steve Hensley

Without being certain of the results in Florida, we simply cannot be certain of the results of the national election.

William Daley

Given that it's an election year, some of the votes that we thought we had suddenly aren't there anymore.

Chuck Kalogianis

He was able to do it two years ago in the recall election, and that's what he's trying to do again.

Mark Baldassare

A little bit like the election.

Arthur Newman

I more than anyone am interested in an absolutely free election.

Leonid Kuchma

George Allen doesn't want to lose this election, either.

Robert Holsworth

A moratorium around election time to end some of these shenanigans would be appropriate.

John Major

I think 2006 is going to be better than 2005 because it's an election year.

Peter Wolfgang

You always have mixed feelings about winning an election like this.

Judith Bondus

We will not schedule the hearing until the outcome of the election.

Matt Mullins

After tonight's election results come in, only 10 percent of the delegates for the Democratic nomination will be chosen.

Roy Neel

And anyway, we have seven days in which to declare an election. We are not too concerned.

Courtney Sampson

We insist on the same stance that we won?t compete in the by-election.

Chulin Laksanaviset

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

Warren G. Harding

What did the election do for us? Nothing.

Hayan Saad

If the election was this year, he would not be re-elected.

Marilyn Brewer

This may be the most important election Kannapolis faces in the last decade.

Jim Harkins

There's an acknowledgement that Mr. Anderson violated the election laws, but there's also a statement that when he was acting, he thought he was acting consistent with the law.

Mark Herron

All I wanted was a fair and just election. I'd like to see this go to court.

Chad Caldwell

That's 28 percent of our budget. This election is extremely important.

John Schwartz

They provided a voting base. Those were people who were already keyed into this election.

Marissa Brittenham

I think the election added to the downward movement but it really was Dell that started it off.

Sam Stovall

If there's no clear majority, there will have to be another election.

Paolo Cento

The people who cast the votes do not decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

Joseph Stalin

It's looking the same way it broke on Election night (a ten vote lead).

Charles Flynn

Bass surprised me, ... I think that will definitely have an effect in the next election. (Bass) won no friends.

Jim Walker

We are way out of the election cycle. And Doug deserves time to make up his decision. He is thinking about it.

Russ Hill

He's mad at me for being in his ward on Election Day.

Richard Remus

There was a fine election in November 2004.

Michelle Shafer

What happened today is not an election.

Ayman Nour

Careers usually end when the indictment is brought, whether [the accused] are cleared or not. Very few survive an election, once an indictment has been brought.

Stanley Brand

Amir will discuss with the prime minister an agreed date for an election.

Yuli Tamir

They're going into this election without their standard-bearer.

Floyd Ciruli

It is a lot of money for a school board election. But she must have felt, due to the competition, that it was necessary.

Carol Comeau

Once the charter was developed, then there would be another election where citizens would decide if that's the charter they want for the community or not.

City Manager Mari Macomber

This year's presidential election has become market-moving.

Christopher Garman

The voters in my district made that clear in the last election.

James Powers

Afghanistan should be satisfied with the turnout in yesterday's election.

Peter Erben

Won the war, lost the economy, lost the election. That's the mantra that haunts these people.

Charles Valliere

It is difficult in this particular election for any of the candidates to establish an issue, call it their own and get credit for it.

Aubrey Jewett

The only momentum that really counts is the momentum on election day.

Chuck Coughlin

This is a terribly closely contested election in a very tough campaign.

Walter Rodgers

We need to put a wholly Iraqi face on this election.

James Turner

She took them out and put them in a reconstituted ballot box and then continued with the election.

Dana Doiron

I have no idea who will win, but I imagine it will be a close election.

Tony Domenech

In the past 16 years, in every election those who who promised more won.

Krisztian Szabados

Things don't usually change much from the primary to the (general) election.

Bill Gillette

Why do we have to run in a general election that will not be free and fair.

Somsak Prisnanantakul

The company's ability to designate the number of directors up for election ... disenfranchises shareholders.

Warren Lichtenstein

I know that covering a Super Bowl is not the same as covering a convention or an election, but I think there are probably more similarities than there are differences.

Sean Mcmanus

It is impossible to have the final election results this week.

Safwat Rashid

You won't make the November election, ... You miss it by a few, several days.

Tom Arnold

There are five swing states that on Election Day have gay marriage bans on the ballot.

Carlos Watson

I have no negative comments and even after the election I'll have no negative comments. No, really.

Judith Collins

Strategically, but to make their decision just before the election.

Arianna Huffington

We want the election to be canceled and a new vote to be held.

Isa Gambar

A clear conclusion has been reached, including by Conservatives, that the Conservatives are not going to win this election.

Charles Kennedy

I was going to do something during election time (in my own class).

Brett Eckhart

To stay away from a useless election, an election that does not even remotely attend to the national crisis.

William Bango

That's why we turned it over to the attorney general to see if there were any violations of the District of Columbia election law.

Channing Phillips

Of course, illegal immigration is really the hot-button issue for this election.

Pete Brunstetter

People are what this election is all about.

Patty Berg

A lot of politicians show up, especially around election time.

Jack Brittain

I hope this election will be the seal for an understanding in Cyprus.

Rauf Denktash

They should each get information on how their election will be conducted.

Dana Williams

Clinton helped create a values election.

Mark Mckinnon

Trade is a nice, battering ram topic in an election year.

Charles Gabriel

We have set a policy that if they're on the general election ballot and they're a special district, there would not be a charge.

Sharon Harrington

I voted for Darryl Clare in the last election.

Rick Walters

I don't believe he could win the general election. I think (Democrat) Larry Grant would beat him.

Keith Johnson

It would give an advantage in the election if a nominee is appointed in the interim. It would be appropriate to have the appointment only if it's not the nominee of one of the parties.

Russell Verney

The president will try to get the nationalists on board but if that fails, he may go for a quick election.

Sunanda Deshapriya

This election would be a vote on a complete change of political direction if there were different coalition alternatives.

Juergen Falter

I wouldn't overestimate the pre-election polls too much.

Bohumil Doležal

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat and I think this is the most important election in my lifetime.

Billy Baldwin

Successful in this election, I will not run again. I will complete my service.

Dannie Mcconkie

Will that move benefit Bernie? It could, but the voters will make that decision during the next election.

Mark Herak

If you didn't see the signs, ... you might not know there was an election.

Franklin Johnson

So what we have to do is let them know how important this election is for the future of the city, how important it is for their well-being as citizens of the city of Cleveland.

Frank Jackson

Anything between today and the presidential election is going to be seen as a tug-of-war between these two.

Guillaume Parmentier

The results of the election will determine what we do.

Abu Mohammed

Election years are traditionally up years.

Yale Hirsch

When you have an economy that's picking up speed it certainly will have an effect on the election and benefit the candidate from the president's party.

George Grayson

It appears that the level of violence was well below the last election.

Allen Abney

This now has become a major political issue in the presidential election.

Ray Flynn

There is no evidence in this case that the ballots were ever compromised. And if the ballots weren't compromised, the election wasn't compromised.

Barry Richard

Can we pray for the re-election of George Bush?

Sean Hannity

We will insist on participating in the next election by the help of almighty God.

Adnan Dulaimi

We are urging them (the Neighborhood Council) to focus on what they must do, which is to hold the election.

Greg Nelson

We have to be prepared for an election and I think we are very prepared.

Jay Hill

I want to say to the competition at Law and Justice — we congratulate you. You won the election.

Donald Tusk

Things are changing. It's the start of the election year, and we're trying to get a little activity going.

James Proctor

Election campaigns are always a bad time for rational discussions on foreign policy.

Karsten Voigt

This reinforces the idea that many of us already had that Chirac could not stand (for re-election) again in 2007.

Bruno Jeanbart

The Conservatives self-evidently cannot win this general election.

Brian Sedgemore

We have been improving our performance in every election and we are very confident of opening the account this time.

Sreedharan Pillai

This is their best opportunity to ask their questions of the candidates before Election Day.

Julie Martineau

The library has a lot resting on this election.

Janet Steiner

We do not want this case to be an ongoing issue during an election year.

Tim Franklin

I don't burden him with election things other than that we won. He's aware of the victory. He's happy.

Todd Stroger

The current political tension is very serious.... We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

Isn't he up for election?

Bill O'donnell

We are certainly expecting to see new fundraising records set this election cycle.

Charlie Smithson

The market is getting ready for re-election to go ahead.

Alberto Ramos

Chris has always said he will win or lose this election on the war. This is an issue of principle. Chris believes the war is the right thing to do.

Michael Sohn

I think the closer we get to the election, obviously the more you'll see a change.

Danae Jones

It's very rare that Latinos are the deciding force in an election.

Louis Desipio

There may not be enough time to complete the process before the election in December.

Tom Breiten

He pushed it, pushed it and pushed it until it was an election year and then acted like he'd never heard of it.

Lachlan Mcintosh

They were quoting the state election laws, but we're not subject to the state election laws.

Carol Jones

It's also possible that this will drag on past the November election.

Joshua Freeman

While it's a vital component, we're not going to win the election on this alone.

Felix Schein

The pre-election violence is a terrorist activity, with political goals.

Andy Apaid