“For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.”

“There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.”

“Nothing is impossible to kill. It's just that sometimes after you kill something you have to keep shooting it until it stops moving”

“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”

“There should be philosophy and knowledge for the elect, religion and sentimentality for the masses”

“The Ephebians believed that every man should have the vote (provided that he wasn't poor, foreign, nor disqualified by reason of being mad, frivolous, or a woman). Every five years someone was elected to be Tyrant, provided he could prove that he was honest, intelligent, sensible, and trustworthy. Immediately after he was elected, of course, it was obvious to everyone that he was a criminal madman and totally out of touch with the view of the ordinary philosopher in the street looking for a towel. And then five years later they elected another one just like him, and really it was amazing how intelligent people kept on making the same mistakes.”