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• Elections are rarely perfect.

  Richard Holbrooke

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• Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

  Danny Strong

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• With super PACs, we’ve seen voter turnout go up; interest in elections rise; and the number of competitive races increase. The campaigns of 2010 and 2012 have been more issue-oriented than their predecessors, not less.

  Bradley A. Smith

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• To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.

  Peter Schuyler

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• If we were to have a presidential election in Europe it would be an event that would spark a huge interest in people from Lisbon to Helsinki, just like national elections. And it would create a completely different political setting in Europe.

  Wolfgang Schauble

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• Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

  Nate Silver

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• Democracy cannot be practiced just by holding elections. It means the knowledgeable entire people can make their own choice without suppression and restrictions.

  Thein Sein

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• Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a ‘shellacking’ in the November 2010 elections. That shellacking was primarily the result of massive policy overreach when he had a Democratic Congress in his pocket.

  John Podhoretz

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• In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.

  Barney Frank

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• Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters – having held out so long against the incumbent – are by nature looking for change.

  Ron Fournier

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• Like a lot of people, I’m interested in public service and want to do as much as I can to change the direction of this country and will give some consideration to that after midterm elections.

  John Thune

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• The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.

  Bill Kristol

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• I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.

  Bev Perdue

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• 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

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• Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.

  Gerald F. Lieberman

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• When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.

  Elizabeth Joan Smith

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• The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

  Clive Anderson

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• The Iraqi elections were an important first step.

  Brent Scowcroft

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• 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

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• Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.

  Thomas E. Mann

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