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Election 1996 - English essay about the election campaign of Veit Kühne, who ran for Herzberg city council when he was 18 and was elected
Elections to the German Bundestag - A description of the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) electoral system, with detailed results of Bundestag elections since 1972.
The Federal Returning Officer - Information on the duties of the Federal Returning Officer (Bundeswahlleiter), on past and future Bundestag-, Landtag- and European elections. Partial results of ongoing elections are made available as they come in. Includes a lexicon of keywords, a compendium of political party documents, press releases and links.
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Elections Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- G. K. Chesterton Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Elections I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. -- Fred Astaire Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali Elections Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Elections It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wehrner von Braun "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard Elections Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance. -- King George V "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Elections "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl Elections Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. -- P. J. O'Rourke When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Elections The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. -- Dale Carnegie Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Elections Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner Elections Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Elections I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Elections Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -- Anonymous Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Elections We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Anonymous Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins Elections Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Elections The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Cicero Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Elections We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin Elections We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Elections You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. -- Robert Frost There's too much blood in my caffeine system. -- Seen on a bumper sticker If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. -- Lisa Moriyama Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Elections "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley Elections If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Elections Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason Elections
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