Fair Elections Quotes

#1. We conservatives can win the ideological battles on a level playing field. Our ideas are better. Given fair elections based on contributions from regular voters, instead of $100,000 checks from business-as-usual special interests, we will prevail.

John McCain

#2. You cannot have free and fair elections while one party controls completely and monopolizes the instrument of power and .. Tsvangirai is in and out of police cells almost on a daily basis, when people are being arrested, people are being beaten up.

Raila Odinga

#3. Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights.

Garry Kasparov

#4. In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections ... Now President Bush occupies the White House, but with questionable legitimacy.

Cynthia McKinney

#5. The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.

Viktor Yushchenko

#6. My view is that the time has come for the international community to act on Zimbabwe in the way that it did in Bosnia - I do not think that we are going to get free and fair elections in Zimbabwe

Raila Odinga

#7. Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

Fatos Nano

#8. I reassure all Nigerians and the international community of our firm commitment to free, fair and credible elections. My commitment to free elections and one man, one vote remains unwavering.

Goodluck Jonathan

#9. We hope and we've made clear that the forces need to come out. It needs to be full and complete withdrawal. Our position is it needs to be done as soon as possible so that the elections can be free, fair and free of outside influence.

Stephen Hadley

#10. I was an ugly baby. On my birth certificate there was a listing for Probable Cause.

Ronnie Shakes

#11. I've never lost a duel to the death. Not one.

Jim Butcher

#12. The US dollar is our currency but your problem.

John Connolly

#13. It's tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5 am when you've been sleeping in silk pajamas

Marvin Hagler

#14. No-one gets beaten to death quite like Hilary Swank

Jimmy Fallon

#15. In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

Thucydides

#16. Suppose the elections are free and fair and those elected are racists, fascists, separatists", said the American diplomat Richard Holbrooke about Yugoslavia in 1990s. "that is the dilemma

Fareed Zakaria

#17. Although individual states have primary responsibility for conducting fair and impartial elections, the FBI becomes involved when paramount federal interests are affected or electoral abuse occurs.

James Comey

#18. The Zimbabwean people, like everyone else, have a right to live in freedom and prosperity and to select their leaders through fair and democratic elections.

Mo Ibrahim

#19. To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.

Peter Schuyler

#20. The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#21. That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.

Stephen Hadley

#22. Great moment, unforgettable memory.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Elliott Abrams

#24. How the Committee of 300 Arranges Elections The term "fair and free elections" has no meaning in the U.S. The candidates for the presidency are selected by the Committee of 300 so in reality it does not matter who "wins" the election and goes on to the White House. The

John Coleman

#25. Corruption is the bane of Nigeria. Buhari is against corruption. Buhari is not corrupt. He is very clean and disciplined. Election rigging is worse than armed robbery. Buhari wants free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria.

Tam David-West

#26. I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#27. Everyone was on God's payroll, whether they knew it or not.

Anne Lamott

#28. Jesus is the only Savior, but not everybody who is saved by Him is aware that He is the one who is doing the saving.

Tony Campolo

#29. In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.

Samuel Adams

#30. The U.S. views Morocco as an important friend, and we applaud your political and economic reforms that culminated with the recent parliamentary elections that were widely reported to have been conducted in a fair and open manner.

Donald Evans

#31. Who created the sectarian attitude in Iraq? The occupation, ... We never heard of this before in our history. But it's good that Condoleezza Rice realizes sectarianism is not good for Iraq. All we want from them is fair and clean elections next month.

Saleh Al-Mutlaq

#32. No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

Edward Sapir