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Quotes About Election

Former Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank once said, "I only voted once for someone who believes in 100 percent of what I believe. And that's when I voted for myself—the first time.
~ Al Franken
I am Al Gore; I used to be the next president of the United States of America.
~ Al Gore (Jr.)
I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.
~ Dana Perino
If anyone can pull off a long-shot win against Gov. Phil Murphy, it's Jack Ciattarelli, a former state legislator and small-business owner, with a plan to drive down the cost of living.
~ Miranda Devine
I'll look and pick the best, and the one who can do the best job for the party.
~ John Dingell
I think with election conducted with pick and choose policy, injustice has been done to Punjab and Punjabiyat.
~ Gurpreet Ghuggi
Once Clinton won, I started picking on him.
~ Walt Handelsman
When she was running for election in 2006, I went to Missouri to campaign for Senator Claire McCaskill. She impressed the hell out of me and I fell in love with her mother Betty Anne who is a pistol!
~ David Mixner
It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
~ Eugene V. Debs
In 2001-2002, I told the president that the election was supposed to take place when the war was over, at a time when we could return to peaceful life. We agreed upon that. However, I can see now that the election cannot be delayed any longer.
~ Akhmad Kadyrov
It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed.
~ Andrew Greeley
Barack Obama's class warfare will not work on this Republican nominee. Not in Utah.
~ Mia Love
After thinking carefully about how I can best help my fellow Minnesotans, I have decided to not seek election for a different office in 2014. The warm encouragement from many people to run for U.S. senator or the governorship was deeply humbling.
~ Erik Paulsen
I tried during the 1974 campaign to show my husband not as the aloof intellectual people think he is, but the warm, passionate man I know. But the day after the election - after I'd worked so hard - I was put back on the shelf. I was devastated.
~ Margaret Trudeau
In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the outset of the French Revolution, was 'the son of a half-breed Indian squaw' who would put opponents under the guillotine.
~ Robert Dallek
It's Obama's bad luck that he got elected just as the mayhem of the foreclosures, the banking collapse, and the General Motors disaster was accelerating the surge in unemployment to warp speed.
~ Tina Brown
The Obama administration's FBI and Justice Department used unverified opposition research obtained outside of our country as ammunition to get a FISA warrant to spy on Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to President Trump during the 2016 election. That is a fact.
~ Trish Regan
Listen, we elected Warren G. Harding. Anybody has a chance.
~ Roger Ailes
I love Mayor Pete. I've always liked Joe Biden. I like Elizabeth Warren.
~ Randy Rainbow
Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
~ Alec Baldwin
When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote.
~ Ben Nelson
None of God's elect die before they are converted.
~ Ralph Venning
In March 1950 Sukumar Sen was appointed chief election commissioner.
~ Ramachandra Guha
Even within the rigid structure of the military, common soldiers exercised more power than usual. They elected their own noncommissioned officers. Often, they refused to obey orders; occasionally, they mutinied. They deserted almost at will. More so than in most wars, they challenged or ignored traditional lines of command: try as he might, George Washington was never able to force his men to kick women camp followers out of the wagons.
~ Ray Raphael