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Quotes About Election

I certainly want to be the whip, and that's an election every two years in the Senate Democratic caucus.
~ Dick Durbin
A white male Mormon millionaire was not gonna beat Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts, but someone deserved to go out there and give him a real run for his money.
~ Mitt Romney
For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.
~ Mangosuthu Buthelezi
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
~ John F. Kennedy
Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be.
~ William Bennett
Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
~ Al Sharpton
To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House.
~ Sarah Palin
I will seek the presidency with nothing to fall back on but the judgment of the people of the United States, and nowhere to go but the White House or home.
~ Bob Dole
What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.
~ Mark Shields
I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house of the Congress seems to be as committed to guaranteeing democratic participation in this country as we seem to be in other countries.
~ DeForest Soaries
If you know the only way to lose your seat is to get out-conservatived in a primary, you'll never let anyone get to your right.
~ Marco Rubio
Donald Trump has defined himself very well, not only in the primary election where he was absolutely disrespectful to his colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle and for Fiorina, who he basically said, 'Who would vote for you? Look at her face.'
~ Maxine Waters
We're running in a primary election. What do you do? You go out and seek support. When you're getting support, that's good. When you're not getting support, that's bad.
~ Richard Cordray
History has shown that challenging an incumbent president in the primary almost inevitably leads to defeat in the general election.
~ Mercedes Schlapp
We read primary results to assure ourselves that this candidate has won this state's primary and can win the state in the general election. I think that's a very dubious jump to make.
~ Steve Kornacki
Rahul Gandhi lacks the mass appeal and not a match to Modi... people will not not accept him as prime minister.
~ Tamilisai Soundararajan
I'm a very happy, content member of David Cameron's team. I fought very hard to get my friend elected as leader of the Conservative party, then elected as the prime minister of this country, and I'm very happy being part of that team that is bringing change to this country.
~ George Osborne
The House of Lords has many fine aspects, but at its heart, it is a betrayal of the core democratic principle that those in the enlightened world hold so dear - that those who make the laws of the land should be elected by those who must obey those laws.
~ Charles Kennedy
We have seven months before the election. Our top priority as fiscal conservatives is to make sure President Obama retires.
~ Ron Johnson
My top priority if elected mayor is matching Portland with economic opportunity.
~ Ted Wheeler
I don't look at Israel through the prism of running an election.
~ Joe Sestak
The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.
~ George Clooney
I expect that after the election and the results that the international community will understand which was the framework of this process and under which law we have done this process.
~ Alberto Fujimori
I'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession.
~ Bella Abzug