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Quotes About Election

We might have been better off if the question of Obama's patriotism had been raised before he was first elected. Never should we ignore so many red flag warnings again.
~ Thomas Sowell
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
~ T. S. Eliot
It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency.
~ George W. Bush
If you elect me the first Jewish justice of the peace, I'll reduce the speed limits to 54.95!
~ Kinky Friedman
The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
~ Warren Christopher
A campaign is a disagreement, and disagreements divide. But an election is a decision, and decisions clear the way for harmony and peace. I mean to be president of all the people.
~ George H. W. Bush
Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.
~ Abraham Lincoln
A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932 ... and 50 million people died as a result ... what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important.
~ Bernie Sanders
I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
~ John F. Kennedy
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
~ H.L. Mencken
Presidents are selected, not elected.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
We have got to change the political culture in America. We need a political revolution. That means we are working on politics not just three weeks before an election but 365 days a year.
~ Bernie Sanders
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
I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
~ Imelda Marcos
And if I am elected, I promise the formation of a new party, a third party, a wild party.
~ Alice Cooper
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
~ Newt Gingrich
Obama hasn't been working to earn reelection, he's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour!
~ Mitch McConnell
Take it from me, every vote counts.
~ Al Gore
politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.
~ Geraldine Ferraro
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.
~ Carl Albert
If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.
~ Will Rogers