#elections

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

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

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#cannot #defined #democracy #elections #existence

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

The candidates before you know that the IFP has set up a system of deployed IFP national and provincial leaders who are not only monitoring the performance of candidates during these elections but will also do so after these elections. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#also #before #candidates #deployed #during

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

#anywhere #arabia #candidate #egypt #elections

The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study. ↗

— Jesse Helms

#big secret #elections #example #friend #get

As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate. ↗

— Candy Crowley

#amazed #awe #country #day #debate

Elections have consequences. ↗

— Scott Walker

#elections

If you present good government, then elections look after themselves. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#elections #good #good government #government #look

The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossible the determination of who is better than whom, if we mean by 'better' such things as more capable in negotiation, more imaginative in executive skill, more knowledgeable about international affairs, more understanding of the interrelations of economic systems, and so on. The reason has, almost entirely, to do with 'image.' But not because politicians are preoccupied with presenting themselves in the best possible light. After all, who isn't? It is a rare and deeply disturbed person who does not wish to project a favorable image. But television gives image a bad name. For on television the politician does not so much offer the audience an image of himself, as offer himself as an image of the audience. And therein lies one of the most powerful influences of the television commercial on political discourse. ↗

— Neil Postman

#campaigns #debate #democracy #discourse #elections