{"id":2335,"date":"2011-10-03T08:25:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T12:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2011-10-03T08:30:26","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T12:30:26","slug":"favourite-quotes-on-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2335","title":{"rendered":"Favourite Quotes on Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/1001-205x3002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2340\" title=\"1001-205x300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/1001-205x3002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a>Ontario voters to to the polls this week. Here are some favourite \u201celections\u201d quotes as we consider our choices:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old. \u2013 (American) roverb<\/li>\n<li>Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. &#8212; Franklin P. Adams<\/li>\n<li>The election is not a time to discuss serious issues. &#8211; Kim Campbell<\/li>\n<li>No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won&#8217;t come true because they don&#8217;t even mean them &#8211; campaign fantasies that win elections but don&#8217;t get nations moving again.\u00a0 &#8211; Bill Clinton<\/li>\n<li>Elections are like dictionaries: They&#8217;re all about definitions. The candidate who succeeds in defining the contest &#8212; and the contestants &#8212; wins; the candidate who gets defined, loses. &#8211; David Frum<\/li>\n<li>In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. &#8211; Newt Gingrich<\/li>\n<li>The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street. &#8211; Kim Hubbard<\/li>\n<li>An election is like a horse-race, in that you can tell more about it the next day. &#8211; Sir John A Macdonald<\/li>\n<li>Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. &#8211; H.L. Mencken<\/li>\n<li>Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? &#8211; Robert Orben<\/li>\n<li>What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people&#8230; then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority. &#8211;\u00a0 Robert J. Ringer<\/li>\n<li>Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.\u00a0&#8211; George Bernard Shaw<\/li>\n<li>An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. &#8211; George Bernard Shaw<\/li>\n<li>Our elections are free\u2013it\u2019s in the results where eventually we pay. &#8211; Bill Stern<\/li>\n<li>Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. &#8211; Gore Vidal\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The quotes are taken from <strong><em>1001 Quotes on Politics, Elections, Democracy and Government<\/em><\/strong>. Read more on this publication and how to get your own copy here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2260\">https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2260<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario voters to to the polls this week. Here are some favourite \u201celections\u201d quotes as we consider our choices: The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old. \u2013 (American) roverb Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[44,30,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2338,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions\/2338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}