"The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old."
                                    American Proverb

"An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod."
                                  Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost."
                                  Mort Sahl