Ellesmere Port and Neston - Elections and Political Control

Famous quotes containing the words elections and, elections, political and/or control:

“Elections and politics in this country correspond with battles and war in other times and countries. Whatever of departing evils remains is sure to show itself last in the excitement of political contests.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

“It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.”
—Auberon Waugh (b. 1939)

“I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)