Quotes of: Free-election Keyword

To get elected in Mexico today, you have to compete like any democracy, and you don't do that by being manipulated.

Enrique Pena Nieto

While 2013 will not see a major national election, we can be sure that most Republicans will obstruct and some Democrats will appease.

Eliot Spitzer

We must train our 'future candidates' on not only how to win elections but how to govern well.

Fela Durotoye

The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.

Chuck Grassley

After President Obama's election, efforts at othering Obama quickly became about smearing his non-partisan allies and ambassadors.

Christine Pelosi

Manufactured scandals prohibit public servants from doing the job they were elected or appointed to do.

Charles B. Rangel

I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

Imran Khan

One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

Imran Khan

I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.

Imelda Marcos

We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.

Joan Blades

I've never sought elected office since I was a senior class president in high school.

Jeffrey Chiesa

I'd never get elected if people in North Carolina realized how liberal I am.

Dean Smith

In the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo is the daughter of Diosdado Macapagal - but his term ended in 1965, and she was elected in 2001. Hardly a hand-off.

Elliott Abrams

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

Barney Frank

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.

Brad Henry

I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.

Brian Lamb

As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.

Barbara Ann Radnofsky

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

Bill Vaughan

If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out of steam.

Giorgio Napolitano

The first election I remember was Dewey Truman in '48. I was, I guess, seven years old.

George Will

Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?

Herman Cain