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    Douglas Adams
    “The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
    To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
    To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: elections, hg2g, politics, rulers
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “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
    tags: apathy, democracy, elections, voting
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: civic-duty, democracy, elections, voters
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    Jaachynma N.E. Agu
    “Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.”
    ― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
    tags: accomplishments, african-american-authors, african-authors, agu-jaachynam-n-e, amazom, anyaele-sam-chiyson, aspiration, be-different, book, business, chiysonovelty-bookclub, elections, entrepreneurship, fame, forbes, greater-glory, greatness, higher-living, immortality, improvement, inspiration, international-authors, intimacy, it-is-time-to-get-very-rich, jaachynma, leadership, life, money, niche, nigerian-authors, president, reading, relationship, revolution, richest, risk-it, security, self-help, success, successful-living, the-best-option, the-prince-and-the-pauper, the-sagacity-of-sage, wealth
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: democracy, elections, irony
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    Larry J. Sabato
    “Every election is determined by the people who show up.”
    ― Larry J. Sabato , Pendulum Swing
    tags: democracy, democracy-fascism, democracy-freedom, democracy-voting, democrats, elections, freedom, liberty, political-science, politics-observation, politics-science, politicsics, republicans, responsibility, vote, voters, voting, voting-rights
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    Matt Taibbi
    “In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.”
    ― Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
    tags: capitalism, democracy, elections, government, greed, wall-street
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  • #8
    “A NATION'S GREATNESS DEPENDS ON ITS LEADER

    To vastly improve your country and truly make it great again, start by choosing a better leader. Do not let the media or the establishment make you pick from the people they choose, but instead choose from those they do not pick. Pick a leader from among the people who is heart-driven, one who identifies with the common man on the street and understands what the country needs on every level. Do not pick a leader who is only money-driven and does not understand or identify with the common man, but only what corporations need on every level.

    Pick a peacemaker. One who unites, not divides. A cultured leader who supports the arts and true freedom of speech, not censorship. Pick a leader who will not only bail out banks and airlines, but also families from losing their homes -- or jobs due to their companies moving to other countries. Pick a leader who will fund schools, not limit spending on education and allow libraries to close. Pick a leader who chooses diplomacy over war. An honest broker in foreign relations. A leader with integrity, one who says what they mean, keeps their word and does not lie to their people. Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One who understands the needs of the farmer, the teacher, the doctor, and the environmentalist -- not only the banker, the oil tycoon, the weapons developer, or the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyist.

    Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one who allows corporations to outsource jobs for cheaper labor when there is a national employment crisis. Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance. Stability, not fear and terror. Peace, not chaos. Love, not hate. Convergence, not segregation. Tolerance, not discrimination. Fairness, not hypocrisy. Substance, not superficiality. Character, not immaturity. Transparency, not secrecy. Justice, not lawlessness. Environmental improvement and preservation, not destruction. Truth, not lies.

    Most importantly, a great leader must serve the best interests of the people first, not those of multinational corporations. Human life should never be sacrificed for monetary profit. There are no exceptions. In addition, a leader should always be open to criticism, not silencing dissent. Any leader who does not tolerate criticism from the public is afraid of their dirty hands to be revealed under heavy light. And such a leader is dangerous, because they only feel secure in the darkness. Only a leader who is free from corruption welcomes scrutiny; for scrutiny allows a good leader to be an even greater leader.

    And lastly, pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons and daughters of a given nation strive to emulate their leader's greatness. Only then will a nation be truly great, when a leader inspires and produces citizens worthy of becoming future leaders, honorable decision makers and peacemakers. And in these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.”
    ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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    “Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance. Stability, not fear and terror. Peace, not chaos. Love, not hate. Convergence, not segregation. Tolerance, not discrimination. Fairness, not hypocrisy. Substance, not superficiality. Character, not immaturity. Transparency, not secrecy. Justice, not lawlessness. Environmental improvement and preservation, not destruction. Truth, not lies.”
    ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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    Thomas L. Friedman
    “When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.”
    ― Thomas L. Friedman
    tags: democracy, democracy-fascism, democracy-freedom, democracy-voting, democrats, elections, free-speech, media, political-science, politics-observation, politics-science, politicsics, republicans
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  • #11
    Harry Truman
    “[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.”
    ― Harry S. Truman
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip on each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
    tags: elections
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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up. We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: administrations, banking, business, class-warfare, elections, finance, government, money, politics, presidency, president, united-states-of-america, wealth
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    Herbert M. Shelton
    “General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.”
    ― Herbert M Shelton
    tags: elections, politics, voting
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    Rebecca Traister
    “What [Sarah] Palin so beguilingly represented ... was a form of female power that was utterly digestible to those who had no intellectual or political use for actual women: feminism without the feminists.”
    ― Rebecca Traister, Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women
    tags: elections, feminism, feminists, politics, sarah-palin, women
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    Paul Collier
    “Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.”
    ― Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
    tags: democracy, elections, power
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    Robert W. McChesney
    “In the United States […] the two main business-dominated parties, with the support of the corporate community, have refused to reform laws that make it virtually impossible to create new political parties (that might appeal to non-business interests) and let them be effective. Although there is marked and frequently observed dissatisfaction with the Republicans and Democrats, electoral politics is one area where notions of competitions and free choice have little meaning. In some respects the caliber of debate and choice in neoliberal elections tends to be closer to that of the one-party communist state than that of a genuine democracy.”
    ― Robert W. McChesney, Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
    tags: capitalism, corporatism, democracy, democracy-gone-wrong, democratic-party, elections, neoliberalism, republican-party
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    “Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons and daughters of a given nation strive to emulate their leader's greatness. Only then will a nation be truly great, when a leader inspires and produces citizens worthy of becoming future leaders, honorable decision makers and peacemakers. And in these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.”
    ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
    tags: administration, airlines, bail, bail-out, banker, bankers, banking, banking-system, banks, best-leader, big-business, big-pharma, bipartisan, blood, books, brave, bravery, bribe, bridges, build-bridges, capitalism, censor, censorship, chaos, character, citizen, common-man, companies, confident, confident-leader, conscience, conservation, convergence, corporations, corrupt, corruption, country, critic, criticism, criticsm, darkness, decisionmakers, decison-makers, democrat, destruction, diplomacy, diplomatic, discriminate, discrimination, dissent, diversity, divide, divides, division, doctor, doctors, education, educators, election, elections, employment, environment, environmental, environmentalism, environmentalist, equality, ethnic-tolerance, fair, fairness, families, farmer, fear, for-the-people, foreign-relations, freedom, freedom-of-speech, funding, furture, future-leaders, good-leader, government, government-corruption, great-leader, great-leadership, great-nation, greatness, greed, guide, hands, hate, hatred, health-care, heart-driven, hearts, homes, honest, honest-broker, honorable, human-condition, human-life, humanity, humans, humble, hypocrisy, identify, ignorance, immaturity, immorality, improvement, incentives, indentifies, inspire, integrity, intellectualism, intelligent, job, jobs, justice, law, lawlessness, lead, leader, leaders, leadership, leadership-characteristics, leadership-traits, libraries, library, lie, lies, lobbyist, losing, love, make-america-great-again, man-on-the-street, mankind, monetary, monetary-profit, money, money-driven, morality, mortage, mortages, multinational, nation, oil, oil-tycoon, peace, peaceful, peacekeeper, peacemaker, peacemakers, people, pharma, pharmaceutical, pick-a-leader, picking-sides, political-science, politics, preservation, president, presidential, protection, public, race, race-tolerance, racism, religious-tolerance, republican, school, schools, scrutiny, secrecy, security, segregation, selecting, serves-the-people, silencing-dissent, sly, society, speech, spending, stability, street, street-level, strong, teacher, teachers, team, terror, tolerance, tolerate, transparency, truth, truthfulness, understand, understanding, unite, unites, uniting, unity, vote, voter, voting, walls, war, we-the-people, weapons, wisdom, word
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    David T. Dellinger
    “The changes that take place when liberal Democrats replace not so liberal or compassionate Republicans (or Democrats) are merely cosmetic. ”
    ― David Dellinger
    tags: democracy, democrats, elections, republicans, voting
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    Paul Lafargue
    “In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler’s increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.”
    ― Paul Lafargue
    tags: democracy, elections, political-rights, politics, voting
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    Peter Hart
    “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 you have a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ after your name. There’s no sense that this is about democracy, and after the election you have to work together, and knit the country together. The people in the game now just think to the first Tuesday in November, and not a day beyond it.”
    ― Peter Hart
    tags: bipartisanism, competition, democrats, elections, politics, presidential-politics, primary-elections, republicans, u-s-politics, unity
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    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    “Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can’t bother about where they’re going.”
    ― Joseph Alois Schumpeter
    tags: elections, politicians, politics
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    Arundhati Roy
    “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 are other things that ought to function as checks and balances. If elections are the only thing that matter, then people are going to resort to anything to win that election.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy
    tags: democracy, elections
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    Amit Kalantri
    “Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics.”
    ― Amit Kalantri
    tags: amit-kalantri, amit-kalantri-quotes, amit-kalantri-writer, beaurocracy, citizens, civilization, corrupt, corruption, democracy, elections, globalization, governance, government, inspirational-quotes, motivational-quotes, orator, people, philosophy, political-science, politicians, politics, power, speech, strength, wisdom
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    “We can't have officials with conscience if we can't be voters with conscience.”
    ― Jorge P. Guerrero
    tags: elections
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    Greg Gutfeld
    “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.”
    ― Greg Gutfeld, Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You
    tags: bigfoot, elections, politics, satire
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    “a great reason why a gloomy history may repeat itself is that we may have neglected what history did. When we neglect what history did, history visits us in the same cloth”
    ― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
    tags: brainy-quotes, disaster-preparedness, elections, generational-problems, history, inspirational-quotes, lessons-from-history, lessons-from-the-past, neglected-lessons, politics, psyche, recurring-problems, war-and-conflict, words-of-wisdom
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    “As the issue of security becomes more important in people’s midst, the party and leader that offer the deepest sense of understanding and competence will win support. At the same time there is always the risk that negativity, fear, and nastiness may become issues in their own right. People may tire of it, wanting more optimism and more hope.”
    ― Bob Rae, What's Happened to Politics?
    tags: canada, elections, politics
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    “As a Republic governed through the utilization of a democratic process, elections are necessary in order to give every United States citizen a voice in the governing of this great nation.”
    ― Byron Goines, The 2014 Midterm Elections
    tags: democracy, democratic, democrats, elections, govern, governing, republic, republicans, united-states
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    “That we have the vote means nothing. That we use it in the right way means everything.”
    ― Lou Henry Hoover
    tags: elections, suffrage, vote, voting, women, women-s-rights, women-s-suffrage
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