#elections

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

— Fela Durotoye

#government #leadership #politics #leadership

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them. ↗

— Aristophanes

#falsehood #government #hypocrisy #politics #popularity

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. ↗

— Lord Acton

#carrying #democracy #elections #evil #force

I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan. ↗

— Benazir Bhutto

#contest #elections #i #i am #october

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

— Will Rogers

#elections

I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now. ↗

— Frank Dobson

#elections #expect #go #got #i

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

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#cannot #defined #democracy #elections #existence

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them. ↗

— Juan Cole

#money #politicians #politics #super-pacs #united-states

I've always found the thousand dollar dinners more unsettling than the twenty-five-thousand dollar ones --- if someone pays the Republican National Committee twenty-five thousand dollars (or, more likely, fifty per couple) to breathe the same air as Charlie for an hour or two, then it's clear the person has money to spare. What breaks my heart is when it's apparent through their accent or attire that a person isn't well off but has scrimped to attend an event with us. We're not worth it! I want to say. You should have paid off your credit-card bill, invested in your grandchild's college fund, taken a vacation to the Ozarks. Instead, in a few weeks, they receive in the mail a photo with one or both of us, signed by an autopen, which they can frame so that we might grin out into their living room for years to come. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#elections #politician-s-wife #politics #money