{"id":5723,"date":"2015-01-05T12:42:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T17:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=5723"},"modified":"2019-10-22T15:00:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T19:00:28","slug":"election-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=5723","title":{"rendered":"Election quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of our favourite \u201celection\u201d quotes for this election year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old. \u2013 (American) Proverb<\/li>\n<li>Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. \u2014 Franklin P. Adams<\/li>\n<li>The election is not a time to discuss serious issues. \u2013 Kim Campbell<\/li>\n<li>No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won\u2019t come true because they don\u2019t even mean them \u2013 campaign fantasies that win elections but don\u2019t get nations moving again. \u2013 Bill Clinton<\/li>\n<li>Elections are like dictionaries: They\u2019re all about definitions. The candidate who succeeds in defining the contest \u2014 and the contestants \u2014 wins; the candidate who gets defined, loses. \u2013 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. \u2013 Newt Gingrich<\/li>\n<li>The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street. \u2013 Kim Hubbard<\/li>\n<li>An election is like a horse-race, in that you can tell more about it the next day. \u2013 Sir John A Macdonald<\/li>\n<li>Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. \u2013 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? \u2013 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\u2026 then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority. \u2013 Robert J. Ringer<\/li>\n<li>Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. \u2013 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. \u2013 George Bernard Shaw<\/li>\n<li>Our elections are free\u2013it\u2019s in the results where eventually we pay. \u2013 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. \u2013 Gore Vidal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1001-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"1001-205x300\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" \/>The quotes are taken from the By George e-publication: <em>1001 Quotes on Politics, Elections, Democracy and Government<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more on this collection of quotes and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">how to get your own copy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of our favourite \u201celection\u201d quotes for this election year: The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old. \u2013 (American) Proverb Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. \u2014 Franklin P. Adams The election is&#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\/5723"}],"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=5723"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10720,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5723\/revisions\/10720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}