#elections

...is there any body of citizens in the country who actually welcome and enjoy a General Election?..YES. Those citizens are schoolchildren...attending national schools. It may be very cynical, but on the appointed day those Lyceums of lower learning are turned into polling stations, the homes of innocence temporarily become part of the grim apparatus of politics and the scheming of sundry chancers. ↗

— Flann O'Brien

#home

The challenge has always been that "good people" don't know how to win elections ↗

— Fela Durotoye

#government #leadership #politics #leadership

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins. ↗

— James Baker

#frustrating #i #lose #margins #narrow

Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996. ↗

— Todd Akin

#democracy #democratic #elections #participated #people

Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#attention #attorney #because #board #city

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected. ↗

— Will Rogers

#elections

I supported my friend Congressman Shuler over former Speaker Nancy Pelosi during our party's leadership elections in November citing a need for new leadership. ↗

— Joe Donnelly

#congressman #during #elections #former #friend

These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#country #decide #define #elections #endless

The U.S. views Morocco as an important friend, and we applaud your political and economic reforms that culminated with the recent parliamentary elections that were widely reported to have been conducted in a fair and open manner. ↗

— Donald Evans

#been #conducted #economic #elections #fair

They appear to have had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than we did in our recent federal elections, and we didn't have terrorists threatening to kill our families if we voted. ↗

— Conrad Burns

#did #elections #families #federal #had