The First Tuesday in November… Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. ~ Gore Vidal Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government. ~ Gerald F. Lieberman 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 It’s exciting; I don’t know whether I’m going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I’m ready for the job. And, if not, that’s just the way it goes. ~ George W. Bush I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there. ~ Maureen Reagan You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have enough votes on our side. ~ Herbert Hoover We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs. ~ Will Rogers If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. ~ Jay Leno Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn’t vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face. ~ Oriana Fallaci The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. ~ Winston Churchill Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ~ James Russell Lowell I don’t know much about Americanism, but it’s a damn good word with which to carry an election. ~ Warren G. Harding Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~ George Bernard Shaw Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods. ~ Henry Louis Mencken Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. ~ Oscar Ameringer If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal. ~ Emma Goldman We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we’re being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We’ve been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn’t. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It’s the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect. ~ Gael Garcia Bernal 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. ~ Abraham Lincoln If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same. ~ Abraham Lincoln Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. ~ Herbert Marcuse Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country – and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. ~ Charles Krauthammer 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 Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother. ~ Robert C. Byrd Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. ~ Laurence J. Peter Don’t vote – it only encourages them. ~ Billy Connolly
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