{"id":248,"date":"2015-03-28T12:38:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T16:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=248"},"modified":"2015-03-28T22:55:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T02:55:02","slug":"quotes-regarding-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"20 quotes on Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Vote for the man who promises least. He&#8217;ll be the least disappointing. &#8212; Bernard Baruch<\/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? &#8212; Robert Orben<\/li>\n<li>Our elections are free &#8211; it&#8217;s in the results where eventually we pay. &#8212; Bill Stern<\/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>Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote. &#8212; George Jean Nathan<\/li>\n<li>Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. &#8212; Gore Vidal<\/li>\n<li>Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. &#8212; Gore Vidal<\/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. &#8212; Bill Clinton<\/li>\n<li>In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. &#8212; Newt Gingrich<\/li>\n<li>The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old. &#8212; American Proverb<\/li>\n<li>Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical. &#8212; American Proverb<\/li>\n<li>If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same. &#8212; Abraham Lincoln<\/li>\n<li>If elected, I will win. &#8212; Pat Paulsen<\/li>\n<li>In times of stress and strain, people will vote. &#8212; Anonymous<\/li>\n<li>A politician thinks of the next election &#8211; a statesman, of the next generation. &#8212; James Freeman Clarke<\/li>\n<li>Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. &#8212; George Burns<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;d all like to vote for the best man, but he&#8217;s never a candidate. &#8212; Kin Hubbard<\/li>\n<li>The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street. &#8212; Kin Hubbard<\/li>\n<li>The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected. &#8212; Will Rogers<\/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. &#8212; Robert J. Ringer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vote for the man who promises least. He&#8217;ll be the least disappointing. &#8212; Bernard Baruch Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? &#8212; Robert Orben Our elections are free &#8211; it&#8217;s in the results where eventually we pay. &#8212; Bill&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[44,30,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"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=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6244,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/6244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}