Free Elections Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Free Elections". There are currently 0 quotes in our collection about Free Elections. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Free Elections!
The best sayings about Free Elections that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • I would like to see a contribution-free election that permitted the people to vote as opposed to corporations. There really ought to be no money in the system except what an individual voter or citizen contributes out of his or her own pocket.

    Source: www.npr.org
  • I know a whole generation has been raised on the notion of multiculturalism; that all civilizations are just different. No! Not always. Sometimes things are better! Rule of law is better than autocracy and theocracy; equality of the sexes, better; protection of minorities, better; free speech, better; free elections, better; free appliances with large purchases, better! Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

    Sex   Law   Civilization  
    "Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home". Documentary, Comedy, 2003.
  • Frankly, I don't think you should perform in a plaza where thousands of Cubans have been subjected to the death penalty, by firing squad, including three young black men in 2003. What is needed in Cuba is a concert in favor of democracy, civil liberties for the people, the freedom of political prisoners, free elections and the expulsion of dictatorial power.

    Men   Thinking   Squad  
  • America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are not held in great sections of America.

    Struggle   Home   Europe  
  • Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

    Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. November 2, 2010.
  • The democratic ideal springs from the ideas of liberty, equality, majority rule through free elections, protection of the rights of minorities, and freedom to subscribe to multiple loyalties in matters of religion, economics, and politics rather than to a total loyalty to the state. The spirit of democracy is the idea of importance and worth in the individual, and faith in the kind of world where the individual can achieve as much of his potential as possible.

    Loyalty   Spring   Rights  
    Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.24, Vintage
  • We have free elections. Everybody can vote, we fought for that, we brag about that and we know we're going to have a winner and we're going to have a loser.

    Election   Vote   Loser  
    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
  • Leave us to our free election.

    William Shakespeare (2015). “Pericles”, p.30, Courier Dover Publications
  • Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections.

  • Thus these three amendments to the Constitution [13th, 14th, 15th] were ratified while the ten Southern states were under martial law, and "had no law at all." The Force Acts, the four Reconstruction Acts, and the Civil Rights Act were all passed by Congress while the Southern states were not allowed to hold free elections, and all voters were under close supervision by federal troops. Even Soviet Russia has never staged such mockeries of the election procedures.

    War   Russia   Rights  
  • If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

    One-Dimensional Man ch. 1 (1964)
  • As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.

    "CNN's Candy Crowley Will Be First Woman in 20 Years to Moderate a Presidential Debate" by Marisa Guthrie, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 13, 2012.
  • If a nation wishes, it can have both free elections and slavery.

    Wish   Slavery   Election  
  • They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

    Long   Leader   Election  
  • The only logical solution to solve the Palestinian issue is to hold free elections with the participation of Palestinians inside and outside the occupied territories and a recognition of the nation's legitimacy

  • The people are fed up with corruption and embezzlement. They object to censorship. The first thing that the people of Iran want is free elections.

    Iran   People   Want  
    "Iran’s Nobel Peace Laureate Speaks From Exile". Interview with Bryan Schatz, www.motherjones.com. February 29, 2016.
  • In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Irans theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules.

  • On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all.

  • We know what works: freedom works. We know what's right: freedom is right. We know how to secure a more and just and prosperous life for man on earth: through free markets, free speech, free elections and the exercise of free will unhampered by the state.

    Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989
  • In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

    "The Great American Bubble Machine" by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. April 5, 2010.
  • Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq.

  • It is true that the American colonials have "free elections," in which they have the absolute right to vote for one of two opposing candidates, both of whom have been handpicked and financed by the Rockefeller syndicate. This touching evidence of "democracy" serves to convince most Americana that we are indeed a free people. We even have a cracked Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to prove it.

  • On a day when all Americans, regardless of party affiliation, are celebrating the growth of freedom and honoring the sacrifices of American and Iraqi troops with elections in Iraq, it's sad that John Kerry has chosen once again to offer vacillation and defeatism. Even after the first free elections in Iraq in more than 50 years John Kerry still believes Iraq is more of terrorist threat than when the brutal tyrant Saddam Hussein was in power and even more remarkably Kerry is now once again for funding our troops, after being for the funding before he was against it.

  • Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years.

    Years   People   Voting  
  • The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

    Years   Class   Politics  
    "The State and Revolution". Chapter 5, www.marxists.org. 1917.
  • The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.

  • The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.

    Remark at the Berlin Conference (1954) according to an eyewitness writing in "International Affairs" Vol. 36, (p. 4), 1960.
  • Well I haven't seen any free elections in the Arab world. They may be coming someday, except for in Israel. In Israel, Arabs have a chance to participate in free elections. Nowhere else really.

    Israel   World   May  
    Source: www.middleeasteye.net
  • The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder.

Page of
We hope our collection of Free Elections quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Free Elections is constantly growing (today it includes 0 sayings from famous people about Free Elections), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Free Elections!