When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.
The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss and enjoy the agonies of their brethren in eternal fire.
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.
I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.
I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.
I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.
The deepest mystery of Twitter is why celebrities and elected officials take part. After all, we all know they can't write their own lines.
I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.
The way to get people civically engaged, not just during the election but throughout the year, is to tap into Facebook and let them do it with their friends.
As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.
They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council.
In 2012 there was a megafoolish, if well-funded, effort by a group called Americans Elect to raise an independent Cincinnatus to run for president via an Internet draft. It flopped, spectacularly.
Lyndon B. Johnson: You just get me elected, and I'll give you your damned war.
As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.
I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.
I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.
I'd rather support the issues I truly believe in than give my vote to parties that court votes at the time of the election. I like to think that my vote strengthens the green foundation stone.
All through my senior year, luckily, I didn't have too many hard classes, just a lot of electives. I was able to spend most of my time at the practice space.
C'mon. He'd be embarrassing upstairs at the White House. So I think she'd have a hard time. I think a woman president would have to be very conservative to get elected.
