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A woman has the right to run for election whether she's male or female!

Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.

Basically, the start of my thinking process is: 'OK, if you didn't have to worry about re-election, what would you be doing?' That's kind of how I'm starting to think.

Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.

Before the election, I reported on a story about a counterintelligence officer from another service sending reports to the FBI saying that his sources in Russia were saying that Moscow tried for years to cultivate and co-opt Donald Trump. I'm not saying that happened. I'm saying I hope the FBI took a strong look, because it is really hard to believe that a president-elect would be so callous in how he approaches this issue and so dismissive of the seriousness of it.

Benjamin Netanyahu is no Winston Churchill. Whatever else he, is he's not a Winston Churchill. He basically violated the great rule, which is it's better to mislead the people and to lose an election than to mislead the people and win an election.

Both during the elections and as Prime Minister, I have repeatedly and publicly said that I support the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.

Brexit and Trump's election are forcing countries to come up with new radical ideas.

But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.

But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may be known and distinguished by holy lives.

Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.

Congress can't take the year off, election or no election.

Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.

CNN stands to make a hundred million dollars more than it's expected lift for the election cycle, due to the phenomenon that is Donald Trump.

Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve.

Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

Conservative presence in the media has not been reflected in elections. Well, maybe the midterm elections of 2010, 2014.

Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections.

Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the first time in 2005. The trouble with Democracy is, you hold elections. The trouble with dictatorships is...you don't.

Democrats are not a national party. They have lost governorships, state legislatures, mayoralties. They have lost 1,500 seats since elections, 2010, '12, '14, it's been devastating. And it's all Obama.

Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.

Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.

DNI director [James] Clapper said as much many, many times, that there is no evidence that any outcome of the election was changed.

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.

Diplomacy never stops, and, with or without an election, it never stops.

Direct elections on the spot to all representative organs, up to the supreme organ, are a better guarantee of the interests of the working population of our boundless country.

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

Donald Trump and his team have not provided any evidence of widespread fraud in this year's election.

Donald Trump disproved the notion that there is a direct dollar-for-dollar correlation between how much money you had in your traditional war chest and what your election outcome was going to be.

Don't vote, it only encourages them.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

During a news conference, when he was standing with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President [Donald] Trump responded to a question from an Israeli reporter about the rise in anti-Semitic attacks - by boasting about his election victory.

During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner.

Election Day now has become the last day to vote.

Election made me more aware, more conscious, more sensitive. Not just of sexism but of discrimination in all areas - class, gender, race. I had realized that there were problems .

Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.

Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.

Election campaigns seem to siphon away political anger and even basic political intelligence into this great vaudeville, after which we all end up in exactly the same place.

Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of His sovereign good pleasure.

Election' made zero money at the box office, but it started my career.

Elections aren't just about who votes, but who doesn't vote.

Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable!

Elections cannot inconvenience me. They ratify my will or I neuter them.

Election night is the easiest time to act like a grownup.

Elections are a festival of democracy. Everyone must join this festival of democracy and strengthen it.

Elections are not a beauty contest. It is all about tolerance.

Elections in Nigeria Under My Watch Have Been Credible and Transparent

Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

Elections aren't supposed to be for sale... it's that simple.