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Oscar Arias

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JARED DIAMOND The government has to understand it can't turn its back on this civic demand, the citizens' demand f...
ANTONIO LEDEZMA You cannot but conclude that these were transparent, credible and good elections.
CRAIG JENNESS The United Nations is of the view that these elections were transparent and credible.
CRAIG JENNESS Observer groups whose job it is to asses the quality of elections, including international observer ...
CRAIG JENNESS Our country moved to electronic voting in public elections before the technology was ready, ... This...
AVI RUBIN He has steered his country through a most difficult and painful transition ... We now look forward t...
TONY BLAIR They have been successfully used for many, many years in hundreds of elections all over the country....
DAVID BEAR There is no elections scheduled in the country soon and the opposition is weak, so the president may...
ILGAR MAMMADOV They're elections, and we want to win elections.
DANNY DIAZ The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're...
HOWARD DEAN I am afraid that these elections will tear the country apart. On the one hand, we are all focused on...
VOLODYMYR LYTVYN These elections will fail by themselves. Political parties inside the country won't attend this farc...
ALBISSATY SALEH ALLAZAM The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way w...
HOWARD DEAN Donors don't win elections; voters win elections.
JEFF SESSIONS Arizonans should immediately repeal the so-called Clean Elections law, which is bad policy and which...
DAVE THOMPSON I am sometimes accused of being a dictator because I provoked the extraordinary elections by nominat...
MILOS ZEMAN From this moment forward, Oscar Arias has been declared officially elected as president of Costa Ric...
OSCAR FONSECA The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means ...
AARON CIECHANOVER Our latest estimate and time frames for new elections is three years,
LAISENIA QARASE The elections were over and it is time for us to go back to build our country.
AMANI ABEID KARUME If nothing is done to ensure the press is free to do its work, these elections will take place in a ...
REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS I don't vote. Two reasons. First of all it's meaningless; this country was bought and sold a long ti...
GEORGE CARLIN I said before the elections and repeat now -- don't rush to change the portraits. The country has a ...
BORIS YELTSIN We don't think these elections will give the country what it needs. We don't want to be a part of it...
KORN CHATIKAVANIJ Maryland is on the verge of enacting legislation that will ensure transparent elections that voters ...
BOB FERRARO India's national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each inf...
SHASHI THAROOR The Labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the libera...
CLIVE ANDERSON Initially it begins a little slower, and it begins to build over a cycle of elections, over a period...
DAN WHITE President (Estrada) is in favor of having elections. There's no other way to have political stabilit...
DIDAGEN DILANGALEN Elections have consequences.
JUDD GREGG We will make every effort to ensure that Ariel Sharon will fall in the coming elections,
BENNY ELON These results mean the country is divided in two. There needs to be a provisional Government for a f...
MARCO PIVA Finally the elections took place and they are good elections of which all Haitians can be proud.
JOSE MIGUEL INSULZA The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by pe...
RALPH NADER It's exciting; I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I'm ready for t...
GEORGE W. BUSH each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI An election tells how many of your supporters are alive, and a war tells how many are willing to be ...
GERHARD SCHROEDER An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties w...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Af...
NELSON MANDELA I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of...
MAUREEN REAGAN The elections were fair, and the opposition's claims are baseless.
ALI AHMADOV The elections were fair, and the opposition's claims are baseless,
ALI KERIMLI These elections were falsified,
ALI KERIMLI If there's somebody who really lost the elections, it's the exit polls.
ALFONSO PECORARO SCANIO The special elections are always important beyond the individual races, ... because they provide a s...
JOHN HANCOCK He (Sharon) also insisted that we must go to early elections as early as possible.
AMIR PERETZ None of the observers or analysts predicted the results we achieved so far in these elections. We ha...
MUHAMMAD HABIB Ukraine that existed before the elections no longer exists. It has been split up into two sides with...
LEONID KUCHMA The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
AMERICAN PROVERB Of course, some opposition members who failed in the elections, or some who did not take part in the...
JALAL TALABANI You won the elections, but I won the count.
ANASTASIO SOMOZA It could be that nothing happens. It all depends on whether it happens close to the elections or not...
ANGELA KELLY Extensive surveys conducted over the course of four separate elections revealed that barriers impedi...
BILL LOCKYER The elections were lost by the NDA on the 'India Shining' campaign,
ARUN KUMAR There is no winner and loser here. The elections are just the first step on the way to building a Pa...
ISMAIL HANIYEH On paper, this district was designed (after the 2000 census) to be competitive, but elections aren't...
RICK LARSEN That's an absolute cheek. You won't win this elections this way.
EDMUND STOIBER Nobody suspected that 12 months before ... that we could bring down dictatorship and have new electi...
ALEJANDRO TOLEDO Changing the date is absolutely necessary to have free and democratic elections in Peru,
ALEJANDRO TOLEDO Take part in the elections.
RICHARD GERE Remain calm, even when intimidated or provoked by those who are desperately determined to rig the el...
MWAI KIBAKI blatant partisanship to use the Elections Division to their advantage.
SCOTT MADDOX done nothing to secure basic conditions for holding remotely normal, democratic elections in Kosovo.
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almos...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON We have about 13 to 14 rebel candidates contesting the elections either as independents or on ticket...
DIGVIJAY SINGH It is difficult to imagine a more demoralizing prospect for the 2006 and 2008 elections.
EDWARD WHELAN Initiatives tend to shape turnout substantially in non-presidential elections.
ELIZABETH GARRETT We weren't comfortable about the Board of Elections hiring someone that a county department had fire...
EDWARD DUMAS The Fed itself seems content to wait at least until after the elections if the not to the end of the...
ELIZABETH MACKAY It is understandable that the market came off so close to the elections.
CARLOS LUPINI This is not that unusual for there to be fluctuations from one year to another, especially the year ...
MICHAEL HARRISON The U.N. is of the view that the elections were transparent and credible. It was conducted in accord...
CRAIG JENNESS The Iraqi elections were an important first step.
BRENT SCOWCROFT Unlike a commercial transaction where if something goes wrong you can fix it, you can't undo electio...
DAVID MASON The system has been used over hundreds of elections and performed extremely well. It's been consiste...
DAVID BEAR The group has never had a formal structure with a treasury and officers and elections. We've seen se...
CLARK JOHNSON I want elections as soon as possible. ...The most natural formula is that the cabinet resigns and we...
GERRIT ZALM We cannot withdraw forces until elections in Jammu and Kashmir are over and after that it depends on...
GEORGE FERNANDES One is tempted to think the fall is on the back of the Gedrman elections given it's not the best of ...
GARETH EVANS He's the first one to register for the 2007 elections.
GREG SABLAN We feel we are covered by those elections and so does the Pennsylvania Department of State.
GARY HUTCHISON We are ready for elections,
GENNADY ZYUGANOV You certainly can expect the U.S. to continue to ratchet up the pressure for free and fair elections...
ED ROYCE Generally, special elections have low voter turn-out, which means get-out-the-vote efforts can make ...
JACK PITNEY Their involvement in (the election) campaign threatens free and fair elections as it borders on vote...
JALE BABA We believe that there are more important things on the nation's agenda than the elections, but if th...
IVICA DACIC Being responsible for a multimillion-dollar elections operation really does cause you to weigh all o...
ION SANCHO Vote in all of the elections, not just for president and governor.
LEO SCODA The Board of Elections was used to doing things in secret and behind closed doors. Executive session...
LINDA HUBER The manner in which they're using paper ballots is illegal. We called the state Board of Elections a...
LEONARD ROBERTO By all accounts the elections were free and fair.
LARRY DENARDIS We refuse to accept the results from these so-called elections.
KRISHNA SITAULA I think that tomorrow what we are going to have with the elections here, we're going to have a recor...
KARL EIKENBERRY It's too late. We approved primary elections to choose our candidates, but the president did not abi...
KADOURA FARES That's why they have elections, and if she decides to file (paperwork to run), so be it.
KAM KUWATA We're not a criminal court. We're making decisions for the administration of elections.
JOSH WRIGHT The negative side of this (election) is that nothing is going to happen until the elections are over...
JEHAN PERERA Just like Mark Snider told the Board of Elections within a couple hours of when he first became awar...
MICHAEL WARD I'm indignant. Berlusconi is not at all involved in this. I don't know if this was motivated by elec...
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