Quotes About Election

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.

A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.

Willkie was unwilling to run a divisive campaign. The president's short-of-war strategy had led him to propose the first ever peacetime draft; Willkie refused to oppose it. "If you want to win the election you will come out against the proposed draft," a reporter told Willkie. Willkie answered, "I would rather not win the election than do that.

In 1952, Republicans spent $1.5 million on television advertising to the Democrats' puny $77,000.

Can a political society really be governed by reflection and election, by reason and truth, rather than by accident and violence, by prejudice and deceit?

But James Madison had pointed out that since "the right of suffrage was much more diffusive in the Northern than the Southern States . . . the latter could have no influence in the election on the score of the Negroes." That is, in a direct election, the North, which had more voters, would have more votes. Wilson's proposal was defeated, 12 states to

But godhead gradually slipped away from him, leaving only a sense of election and the power, through his music, to to change landscapes, seasons, hearts.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. JOHN 6:44

Your participation is now optional.

The same thing happened after Donald Trump won the presidency. There was a huge outcry about the polls being wrong. Nate Silver, the founder of FiveThirtyEight.com, drew a lot of that criticism. But he never said Clinton was a sure thing. Based on his aggregation and weighting of polling data, he had Trump between 30% and 40% to win (approximately between two-to-one and three-to-two against) in the week before the election. An event predicted to happen 30% to 40% of the time will happen a lot.

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.

During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.

I'm running for governor to fulfill California's promise.

If I get elected, my government will promote a culture of acceptance and non-violence in the country.

I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.

All leaders in the Lord's Church are called by proper authority. No prophet or any other leader in this Church, for that matter, has ever called himself or herself. No prophet has ever been elected.

After Obama was elected president, the same day Proposition 8 was passed, there was this fire in our belly.

Americans will always vote for prosperity.

I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.

Despite their promises at the last Election, the politicians had not yet changed the climate.

is there any body of citizens in the country who actually welcome and enjoy a General Election?..YES. Those citizens are schoolchildren...attending national schools. It may be very cynical, but on the appointed day those Lyceums of lower learning are turned into polling stations, the homes of innocence temporarily become part of the grim apparatus of politics and the scheming of sundry chancers.

The boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election.

We will build the wall faster and better if I'm elected.

I remember someone told me Donald Trump may not leave after the election. It seemed like a fictional, almost science-fiction idea.