I think it is dangerous to confuse the idea of democracy with elections. Just because you have elections doesn’t mean you’re a democratic country. They’re a very vitally important part of a democracy. But there...

We are concerned about the fraud allegations. We are waiting to see what the elections commission comes out with. For the time being, we have not seen widespread fraud.

Desire to give and not always receive.

Options abound world over, Options to choose from and be the best.

The bank aims to prevent exchange-rate volatility in the run-up to the April presidential elections.

The premier didn’t mean to say that there would be national elections for senators this fall. He clarified (to me) that there would be discussions this fall on Senate elections.

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through...

We’re convinced we’re going to fight our way to the elections,

If there’s somebody who really lost the elections, it’s the exit polls.

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When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

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Yes, the world is interested in events in Egypt, not just because of the forthcoming elections and the progress of reform but also because what happens in Egypt affects the area around it.

One way of seeing all this was as a symptom of postmillennial decay, the degradation of public discourse, and the encroachment of celebrity worship into the arena of national affairs. Another way of looking at...

I hope elections will take place well before 12 months … that is a job I will entrust to my new prime minister whom we will name in a few days,

The first priority is the Palestinian elections which will hopefully bring about a Palestinian leadership with whom we can sit down and address all the issues on our agenda,

If the Israelis start interfering now with our elections, this will sabotage the democratic process in Palestine. I really urge the Israelis to keep their noses out of our elections. We’ve been conducting local elections,...

chaos, looting, rape and drug trafficking which has flourished under the American occupation before they carried out these elections, which are nothing but a farce.

It is truth, in the old saying, that is ‘the daughter of time,’ and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried and failed to preserve one...

The only candidate I’d allow to play my music would be Bigfoot, and unless we’re talking about foraging for squirrels, he’s notoriously apolitical.

It turns out horrendous when you choose the wrong options.

Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy supposed to be only democracy if you give us a no objection certificate?

saddened that a non-democrat made it into the second round of the elections. Fortunately, Jacques Chirac, who has always opposed Le Pen, is leading and he will win the elections.

We call on you all to take part in the elections, … We don’t want federalism.

Maybe what stopped people from voting wasn’t a lack of information about the candidates or a feeling that the outcomes of races didn’t matter or a sense that a trip to the polls was inconvenient....

It’s not just tougher out there. It’s become a situation where the contest is how much you can destroy the system, rather than how much you can make it work. It makes no difference if...

Nobody suspected that 12 months before … that we could bring down dictatorship and have new elections, … respected the results.

The Iraqi citizen doesn’t know what elections are and doesn’t know who the candidates are or who the voter is.

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General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

It’s an unprecedented year for election system vendors and jurisdictions.

I think we will need more troops then we currently have to secure the elections process in Iraq — that will probably take place in January — but it is our belief that those troops...

The Fed is on hold at least through the election but I think we’ll get a little more tightening at the start of next year. I think, for the time being, we have a soft...

Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately.

The vote today is an important milestone. They will have elections in December for a permanent government. Every time the Iraqi people have been given an opportunity to express themselves politically they have taken it,

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Nothing can be hidden in the era of the open skies. The elections will be free, fair and transparent,

Young people today seem to be coming around to the idea it really doesn’t matter which politician or political party you vote for; and they’re catching on that it doesn’t even matter if you don’t...

We want to assert our right over (east) Jerusalem through the elections because it is part of the (future) Palestinian state.

These elections are an internal Palestinian matter, but I have reassured the secretary today that Israel will do everything in its power to ensure their smooth running.

They’d just as soon sit on the sidelines in an election year, but they will do what they have to do, and they have moved in other election seasons.

And I wouldn’t at this point make any specific linkages to what happened in this parliamentary election to any of those issues.

The system has been used over hundreds of elections and performed extremely well. It’s been consistently found to not only be safe and secure, but also accurate.

I think in the near future and all the way through the 2007/08 elections, the government will not take more suggestions from the pro-democracy camp since they obviously failed at the negotiations last time. The...

Forget yesterday, Act on Today and Get a hold on tomorrow.

We will submit this motion (to dissolve parliament) shortly so that elections could take place before the Pope’s visit to Poland (on May 25-28).

Our latest estimate and time frames for new elections is three years,

There were a lot of things that were fundamentals of politics here, but because there had not been free elections there no one there knew anything about them.