Pastoral Resources

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.

I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

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.

Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

Some of the immediate causes of Jack Abramoff's troubles were some Indian elections that went bad for him.

Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.

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.

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

I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials.

In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress.

All elections revolve around and are often resolved by who raises the most money. That's unfair. I'd like to see that process changed, but it seems once you win and get to Congress, that doesn't happen.

Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just before I arrived, the first elections for a civilian president in more than 9 years.

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the democratic process and encouraging elections, in spite of the fact that a war was going on in several of these countries.

Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately.

In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani.

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

As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

Well the truth is, Republicans didn't just lose a few elections, we lost our way.