Quotes of: Free-election Keyword

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

Herbert Marcuse

We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.

Kenneth Blackwell

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

Chinua Achebe

And I'm very proud of the 50,000 poll workers and election officials who delivered a free and fair election.

Kenneth Blackwell

The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.

Aslan Maskhadov

Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.

Arthur Capper

Obama will win the 2012 election, thanks in part to the tech community rallying behind him due to issues like SOPA, visas, and free speech.

John Battelle

Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006.

Elliott Abrams

The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in.

Warren Christopher

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

That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.

Stephen Hadley

Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections.

George Montgomery

The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.

Hank Johnson

Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.

Aaron Allston

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

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We hope and we've made clear that the forces need to come out. It needs to be full and complete withdrawal. Our position is it needs to be done as soon as possible so that the elections can be free, fair and free of outside influence.

Stephen Hadley

Not surprisingly, in most Sunni regions there has little appetite for free U.S.-sponsored elections.

Richard Engel

Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

Fatos Nano

Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

Elliott Abrams