Quotes About Election

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

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.

There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.

I'm in favor of it as long as it's multiple choice.

I've heard the call. I believe God wants me to run for president.

Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues.

I'm an old duck hunter. I like to go hunting where the ducks are. We're looking for votes. I think maybe poaching some of those soft Donald Trump Republican votes would be the place to go.

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.

Ida Belle and I hurried up the sidewalk to the sheriff's department, her clutching two tote bags and me a pillow and blanket. Between the state police presence and the closing of the polls at the end of the day, the residents had seen no further reason to stand around in the heat and humidity and had made their way to their homes. The street was littered with paper plates, streamers, election flyers, and soda cans, sprinkled with the occasional illegal beer can.

turn towards evil had come," she wrote, after hearing her brother damn the United States and the "falsely" elected president. It was

In the 2000 election, George W. Bush carried 30 of the 50 states even as he lost the popular vote to Al Gore.

In a democracy, a politician who didn't know where he stood might lose an election. In Russia, he'd lose everything.

For instance, Publius affirms that the electoral college "affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications." In fact, he speaks of "a constant probability of seeing the station filled by characters preeminent for ability and virtue," or "at least respectable" (No.

The first to which this character ought to be applied, is the House of Commons in Great Britain. The history of this branch of the English Constitution, anterior to the date of Magna Charta, is too obscure to yield instruction. The very existence of it has been made a question among political antiquaries. The earliest records of subsequent date prove that parliaments were to sit only every year; not that they were to be elected every year.

This advantage will also be secured, by making his re-election to depend on a special body of representatives, deputed by the society for the single purpose of making the important choice.

to promote the election of some favorite class of men in exclusion of others, by confining the places of election to particular districts, and rendering it impracticable to the citizens at large to partake in the choice.

The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens, and greater sphere of country, over which the latter may be extended

This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.

When Trump was elected, there were three parties in Washington: the Trump party, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.

The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation's first contested presidential election, with Adams and Jefferson running to succeed Washington, you had a brutal, ugly, vicious campaign that was divisive and as partisan as anything we're experiencing today.

So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker; something that's truly about freedom.

Remember, your vote is not a wasted vote. Vote with your heart and think about the future generations the next time you vote.

If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.

I really started getting more politically involved after the 2016 election, watching how partisan and how angry our political conversations became.