Election famous quotes

The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.
-- Abhisit Vejjajiva

#Political #Serious #Election

A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Thinking #Generations #Election

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.
-- Ahmed Chalabi

#Election #Reason

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.
-- Akhmad Kadyrov

#Peaceful #Election #Structure

We have rigged the latest election. 93.5 per cent have voted for Lukashenko. But they say it is not a European outcome. We have made it 86 per cent.
-- Alexander Lukashenko

#Outcomes #Election #Made

An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Deception #Auctions #Election

I will accept the results when the election is free and clean. I cannot accept fraud.
-- Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

#Election #Accepting #Results

We've given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and how we live our life.
-- Ann Romney

#People #Needs #Election

I am so mad at the press I could just strangle them!
-- Ann Romney

#Mad #Election

Both during the elections and as Prime Minister, I have repeatedly and publicly said that I support the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.
-- Ariel Sharon

#Israel #Support #Election

I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.
-- Arlen Specter

#Records #Election #Bleak

I've been in a lot of elections.
-- Arlen Specter

#Election

If I would do another 'Terminator' movie I would have Terminator travel back in time and tell Arnold not to have a special election.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Special #Election #Back In Time

I love religion but I don't need it for votes.
-- Arvind Kejriwal

#Needs #Election #Vote

Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better.
-- Atifete Jahjaga

#Rights #Democracy #Election

I will die. The person who succeeds me will also have to die. But elections, you won't have.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Succeed #Election #Dictator

In any election, it's important that the public perceives that the election is held fairly.
-- Avi Rubin

#Important #Election #Perceive

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
-- Barack Obama

#Hope #Election #Cynicism

If you've got a business - you didn't build that.
-- Barack Obama

#Election

Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.
-- Barack Obama

#Horse #Bayonets #Election

I'm tired now of the elections.
-- Barbara Bush

#Tired #Election

Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Issues #President #Election

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.
-- Belle Boyd

#Southern #Election #States

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Election #Contests

I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.
-- Benjamin Netanyahu

#Winning #Election #Polls

You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.
-- Bill James

#Winning #Dodge #Election

Our elections are free-it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern

#Politics #Pay #Election

Don't vote, it only encourages them.
-- Billy Connolly

#Political #Election #Vote

Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.
-- Birch Bayh

#Inspiration #Thinking #Election

During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase.
-- Bob Beauprez

#Dollars #Campaigns #Election

It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election.
-- Bob Kerrey

#Election #Moments #Clear

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
-- Brad Henry

#Democracy #Election #Wonderful

This election ain't no stinkin' TV show.
-- Bradley Whitford

#Tv Shows #Tvs #Election

Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.
-- Brent Scowcroft

#Iraq #Democracy #Election

I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.
-- Brian Lamb

#Party #Election #Vote

Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.
-- Calvin Jillson

#Texas #Helping #Election

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.
-- Caroline Kennedy

#Growing Up #Growing #Election

I am running for re-election no matter who runs.
-- Charles Rangel

#Running #Matter #Election

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
-- Che Guevara

#Democracy #Election #Rich

Remember, at the end of the day [election] campaigns are always about the candidates.
-- Chris Christie

#The End Of The Day #Campaigns #Election

Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?
-- Cynthia Payne

#People #Election #Said

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.
-- Danny Strong

#Winning #Election #Idealism

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.
-- Danny Strong

#Thinking #Election #Bitter

Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.
-- David Frum

#Political #Opponents #Election

There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections.
-- David Ogilvy

#Presidential #Television #Election

The United Nations has no business in our elections.
-- David Vitter

#Business #Election #United Nations

And if we were another country being analyzed by America, we would conclude that this country is ripe for stealing elections and for fraud.
-- DeForest Soaries

#Country #America #Election

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.
-- Dick Morris

#Winning #Political #Election

Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.
-- Don Aitkin

#Cynical #Democracy #Election

Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.
-- Donna Brazile

#Looks #Election #Finance

The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country.
-- Donna Brazile

#Country #Ugly #Election

The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.
-- Ed Gillespie

#Party #Election #Democratic

We will not lose this election for lack of money.
-- Ed Rendell

#Election

No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.
-- Elisabeth Marbury

#Power #Doe #Election

You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Class #Lasts #Election

The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.
-- Elizabeth Drew

#Election #Republican #Stealing

Is Stephen Harper using the imagined fear of widespread security threats to score political points before the next election?
-- Elizabeth May

#Political #Next #Election

Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.
-- Elliott Abrams

#Matter #Election

If elections really changed anything, they would be outlawed.
-- Emma Goldman

#Would Be #Election #Changed

I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.
-- Eric Holder

#Thinking #Years #Election

Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.
-- Eric Liu

#Games #Lessons #Election

I am honored to be here as co-chair of President Obama's re-election campaign.
-- Eva Longoria

#President #Campaigns #Election

Organizing free and fair elections is more important than the result itself
-- Fatos Nano

#Important #Election #Results

People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.
-- Fatos Nano

#People #Political #Election

After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants, in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.
-- Felix Frankfurter

#Election #States #Propensity

You know, back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn't that costly.
-- Foster Friess

#Aspirin #Knees #Election

In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.
-- Francois Hollande

#Needs #Audacity #Election

Dark money has turned our elections into auctions
-- Fred DuVal

#Dark #Auctions #Election

Votes should be weighed not counted.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Election #Vote #Should

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.
-- Fritz Sauckel

#Way #Election

George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.
-- Gary Coleman

#Trying #Stories #Election

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.
-- Gene Sharp

#Thrones #Election #Dictator

The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'
-- George Ayittey

#Jubilation #Election #Barack

I said bluntly that if the president were to follow Mr. Clifford's advice and if in the elections I were to vote, I would vote against the president.
-- George C. Marshall

#Advice #President #Election

Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.
-- George Clooney

#Jobs #War #Election

Elections cannot inconvenience me. They ratify my will or I neuter them.
-- George Hearst

#Election #Inconvenience

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.
-- George McGovern

#Negative #Pay #Election

Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections.
-- George Montgomery

#Democracy #Viagra #Election

You can't be too right too soon and win elections.
-- George W. Romney

#Winning #Election

I am the elected president of Liberia, not Ellen Sirleaf. They stole my victory, and I am here to say loud and clear that I am the winner of the elections.
-- George Weah

#Victory #President #Election

Elections in Nigeria Under My Watch Have Been Credible and Transparent
-- Goodluck Jonathan

#Watches #Election #Nigeria

The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history.
-- Greg Knight

#Suicide #Party #Election

If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit.
-- Hamilton Jordan

#Election #Quitting #States

The right to participate in the choice of representatives for Congress includes, as we have said, the right to cast a ballot and to have it counted at the general election whether for the successful candidate or not.
-- Harlan F. Stone

#Successful #Choices #Election

The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day.
-- Heather Wilson

#Matter #Election #Election Day

We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for it's ridiculous.
-- Helen Thomas

#Struggle #Ridiculous #Election

For the ANC to cry 'sabotage' the night before crucial local government elections shows just how desperate they are to disguise their incompetence and mismanagement.
-- Helen Zille

#Night #Government #Election

I have never lost an election yet. I am a winner. Let's just say that.
-- Henrique Capriles Radonski

#Election #Winner #Lost

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.
-- Herbert Marcuse

#Historical #Doe #Election

If ObamaCare had been fully implemented when I caught cancer, I'd be dead.
-- Herman Cain

#Cancer #Obamacare #Election

The secrecy that shrouded the vote counting by the special election committee cast doubts on the results and lacks transparency.
-- Hosni Mubarak

#Doubt #Special #Election

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.
-- James A. Garfield

#Presidential #Shadow #Election

I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.
-- James Baker

#Presidential #Election #Frustrating

God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.
-- James Dobson

#Our World #Views #Election

I don't have time. Come back after the election.
-- Jan Eliasson

#Election

Where you stand should not depend on where you sit.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn

#Political #Election #Election Day

George W. Bush loves golf because it's like the election--low score wins.
-- Jay Leno

#Golf #Winning #Election

If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.
-- Jay Weatherill

#Government #Looks #Election

The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.
-- Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#Haiti #Firsts #Election

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#Freedom #Thinking #Election