Quotes About Election

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.

This council was called the boule and it was scarcely less cumbersome, consisting of 500 citizens, not elected but chosen by ballot, the point being that in this way it never developed a corporate identity which might have corrupted and distorted the business of the Assembly.

In case you've forgotten, that election made the hatred of Jews in this country socially respectable.

You talk like the Nazis were going to win the election, Bernie." "I keep hoping they won't. And I keep worrying that they might. But I've got seven loaves and five fishes telling me the republic needs more than just a lucky break this time. If I wasn't a cop, I might believe in miracles. But I am and I don't. In this job you meet the lazy, the stupid, the cruel, and the indifferent. Unfortunately, that's what's called an electorate.

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is an employee. This prohibition was extended in 1988 by an act prohibiting senior council officials from being elected as councilors in any authority. Election procedure is essentially the same as that for national elections. (In 1979 and 1997 the two actually coincided, with a general election taking place the same day as local elections.) The first-past-the-post electoral system is employed for all local elections,

The Calvinistic system involves a positive truth: the election to eternal life by free grace, and the negative inference: the reprobation to eternal death by arbitrary justice. The former is the strength, the latter is the weakness of the system. The former is practically accepted by all true believers; the latter always has been, and always will be, repelled by the great majority of Christians.

And the Church is directed to send the gospel to every creature. We pray for the salvation of all men, but not for the loss of a single human being. Christ interceded even for his murderers on the cross. Here, then, is a practical difficulty. The decree of reprobation cannot be made an object of prayer or preaching, and this is an argument against it. Experience confirms election, but repudiates reprobation.

I think our election proved to us that 'billionaire' is an incredibly magical word in our language in that people just defer to it. Donald Trump is not a billionaire, but he knew it was vital for him to be perceived as one.

If Donald Trump has proved anything, it is that there is nothing more powerful than a candidate's voice.

There's been an open attack by the U.S. government, an immoral attack, to try and prevent Venezuela from being freely elected to a post in the Security Council. The imperium is afraid of truth, is afraid of independent voices. It calls us extremists, but they are the extremists.

Throughout the 2016 presidential election, I listened. At debates and rallies, I heard their voices clearly and felt compelled to do something more. Thousands and thousands of women spoke with confidence and conviction.

Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition.

In 2008, I was a full-time volunteer for Barack Obama's first election. I'd take a carload of people and we'd go and canvass in a Native American community every evening.

Typically, the view of party leaders is that primaries are best avoided. Better to coalesce around a consensus candidate early, help that candidate amass a mighty bankroll, and focus the attention of volunteers, activists and other stakeholders on the general election.

As you know, it's so important that we always embrace the sanctity of life. One way to do that is to vote pro-life in every election.

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

I'm not here to say vote for one side of the other. But I'm here to say use your voice and vote. Our ancestors, our fathers and things like that fought for this right. You should take advantage of it and get out and vote and use it.

Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.

I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote - not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know?

Our only hope is to control the vote.