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In some countries that are darlings of the West, like Egypt, everyone knows the result of national elections years in advance: The man in power always wins. In others, like Saudi Arabia, the very idea of an election is unthinkable.
Stephen Kinzer
Man
Result
Election
Power
National
Others
Everyone
Arabia
Some
Wins
Advance
Idea
Countries
Like
Unthinkable
Knows
Always
West
Years
Very
Egypt
Elections
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
The Clinton strength was to play to people without a college education. High school people. That's how you win elections.
Steve Bannon
Education
Strength
You
People
Win
School
College
High
College Education
High School
Without
How
Clinton
Elections
Play
I believe states should have the right to be the masters of their own elections.
Steve Bullock
Own
Believe
States
Masters
Elections
Should
Right
George H.W. Bush said we will lead on climate change, and we'll lead from the top. That was 30 years ago. And now Republicans can't even acknowledge that climate change is human caused or real because of the outside spending in our elections.
Steve Bullock
Change
Will
Our
Spending
Top
Outside
Lead
Because
Said
Climate
Climate Change
Real
Caused
George
Years
Years Ago
Human
Acknowledge
Republicans
Bush
Elections
Even
Now
We expect elections to have contribution limits, and we expect to follow them.
Steve Bullock
Follow
Limits
Expect
Contribution
Them
Elections
Whether you're Democrat or Republican... you want everybody who's eligible to vote to vote, and that's how you want to win elections.
Steve Schmidt
You
Vote
Win
Everybody
Democrat
How
Want
Whether
Republican
Elections
Eligible
In the history of U.S. elections, the fall of 2000 is notorious for the debacle that occurred in the country's attempt to elect a president that year.
Steven Levy
History
Country
Year
Fall
President
Attempt
Occurred
The History Of
Elect
Elections
Notorious
There are two chief responsibilities of the Secretary's office. One is to run the elections in the State of Connecticut to make sure they run fairly and efficiently because the Secretary is the chief election official. The Secretary of the State is also the chief business registrar for the State of Connecticut.
Susan Bysiewicz
Business
Election
State
Secretary
Responsibilities
Run
Also
Make
Fairly
Sure
Because
Chief
Efficiently
Office
Official
Elections
Connecticut
Two
In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins.
Susan Estrich
Presidential
Wins
Most
Taller
Candidate
Elections
Lebanon is restless, Syria got its walking papers, Egypt is scheduling elections with more than one candidate, and even Saudi Arabia, whose rulers are perhaps more terrified of women than rulers anywhere else in the world, allowed limited municipal elections.
Suzanne Fields
Women
World
Else
Rulers
Papers
Syria
Arabia
Restless
More
Scheduling
Allowed
Perhaps
Terrified
Limited
Got
Lebanon
Walking
Than
Candidate
Egypt
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Elections
Even
Whose
Municipal
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
The Washington establishment think Republicans win elections by you don't stand for anything, you keep your head down, you don't rock the boat. You know what? Every time we do that, we get clobbered in the polls.
Ted Cruz
Time
You
Win
Down
Every
Think
Every Time
Head
Know
Rock
Get
Establishment
Polls
Anything
Republicans
Boat
Elections
Stand
Your
Washington
Keep
Corporations that are formed for the purpose of earning profits do not have the constitutionally protected rights that natural citizens have. They should not spend their corporate dollars, Treasury dollars, to influence outcome of elections.
Ted Deutch
Rights
Natural
Earning
Corporate
Spend
Corporations
Citizens
Outcome
Purpose
Protected
Dollars
Influence
Formed
Elections
Should
Profits
Treasury
There's been an unfortunate history of efforts to make sure Florida's votes don't count. Given that history, it's clear why people here would be especially concerned about efforts undertaken by Super PACs and the corporations that fund them to dictate the outcome of elections.
Ted Deutch
History
People
Corporations
Would
Outcome
Would-Be
Super
About
Given
Count
Clear
Votes
Concerned
Make
Sure
Undertaken
Been
Dictate
Efforts
Unfortunate
Them
Elections
Fund
Why
Florida
Here
Had there not been these safety valves of political parties and elections, we may very well have had no way to change except forceful overthrow of government.
Terry Sanford
Government
Change
Safety
Political
Way
Except
Had
Parties
Well
Forceful
Been
Overthrow
Very
Political Parties
May
Elections
Mandates are not objective realities but subjective interpretations of elections sold successfully by the winning candidate or party.
Thomas E. Mann
Party
Sold
Objective
Winning
Subjective
Candidate
Mandates
Realities
Elections
Successfully
Interpretations
If the 1992 and 2000 elections were any guide, third-party candidates are death on the mainstream parties with which they're most naturally aligned.
Timothy Noah
Death
Guide
Aligned
Mainstream
Most
Parties
Were
Any
Candidates
Which
Elections
Naturally
The way elections are won in Minnesota is by talking to people and sharing what's on their minds. It sounds so simple, but it really is the thing that works.
Tina Smith
People
Simple
Minds
Way
Minnesota
Sharing
Talking
Sounds
Won
Really
Elections
Works
Thing
Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.
Todd Akin
Democracy
People
Taiwan
Budding
Since
Democratic
Elections
We must correct the problems and inequities in the way we conduct and decide elections in the United States.
Tom Daschle
Problems
Way
States
Correct
Must
Conduct
Decide
Elections
United
United States
Because of cyberattacks and fake news, we can already imagine the problem all democratic societies will face in future elections: how to limit lies when they threaten democracy?
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Future
News
Democracy
Problem
Will
Face
Fake News
Lies
Threaten
Democratic
Democratic Societies
Because
Limit
Fake
How
Elections
Societies
Imagine
It's much cheaper to influence elections than it is to go to war.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
War
Cheaper
Go
Than
Influence
Much
Elections
I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.
Tucker Carlson
Morning
Class
Daughter
Same Thing
Late
Kindergarten
About
Doing
Up
Same
Elections
Thing
Early
Last
Night
Last Night
American presidential elections usually amount to a series of overcorrections: Clinton begat Bush, who produced Obama, whose lax border policies fueled the rise of Trump.
Tucker Carlson
Presidential
Obama
Border
Rise
Lax
Policies
Clinton
Trump
American
Bush
Fueled
Produced
Elections
Who
Series
Whose
Amount
Mr. Obama's call to support genuine democracy has implications for the kinds of elections the international community promotes and endorses.
Tzipi Livni
Democracy
Community
Obama
Kinds
Support
Implications
Call
Genuine
Elections
International
International Community
If we were to have a presidential election in Europe it would be an event that would spark a huge interest in people from Lisbon to Helsinki, just like national elections. And it would create a completely different political setting in Europe.
Wolfgang Schauble
People
Political
Election
National
Setting
Presidential
Presidential Election
Would
Would-Be
Like
Were
Huge
Just
Different
Interest
Spark
Create
Elections
Europe
Event
Ambati Rambabu walked with my father for 1,500 kilometres during his historic 'padayatra' before 2004 elections. It is because of the work done by activists like him that Congress won assembly elections twice.
Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy
Work
Father
Before
Congress
Like
Him
Because
His
Historic
Won
Walked
Done
Elections
Assembly
Activists
Twice
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