Quotes About Election

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.

Hobson's choice

We obey God not because we are afraid of what He will do to us if we do not. Rather, we obey Him because we are moved by all that He has done for us in Jesus Christ. He has lovingly elected us and sprinkled us with the sin-forgiving, grace-abounding blood of Jesus.

A lot of conversations happened during Obama's election that opened my eyes and made me really excited. He provided hope at a time when the country was grappling with its racial history, and we still need that hope.

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

I think there's a couple of things going on. One is that Trump's relationship with his base is not the traditional relationship of a politician and the people who elected him, and the constituency, which is a relationship of some accountability, right? The idea is that the politicians are working for the people. They're public servants.

The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful.

I did grow up in a household where the narrative was about public service and how are you going to effect change and help people. I'm so glad I grew up around that narrative, but I never had the calling to go out and shake hands and try to get elected.

Donald Trump's own intelligence is publicly saying that Russia is actively trying to help him and hurt Joe Biden.

Electing a black president was probably the only coup America could pull off.

For many of us, this is very painful, pulling the lever for someone many think odious. But please consider this: A vote for Donald Trump is not necessarily a vote for Donald Trump himself. It is a vote for those who will be affected by the results of this election. Not to vote is to vote. God will not hold us guiltless.

Punishing individual immigrants who are deeply embedded in American communities is not the mandate Trump was given when he was elected.

In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.

When I saw how Russia was involved and pushing for Trump, I contacted the FBI. But at the time, they were confident Clinton would get elected and the last thing they wanted to do is show some kind of bias, especially because there was already a controversy with Clinton's email.

Putin interfered in our election because he wanted an American president who sees the world as he does.

The day after Trump was elected, I happened to be home in New York. I went to bed for the day.

Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.

When a president was elected with foreign policy experience, it was usually less about his foreign policy experience than other things.

Well, first, if I am fortunate enough to be elected to the U.S. Senate, it won't be a party that will have elected me. It will be the people of California.

Change' - Obama's election mantra - is a direct, in-your-face affront to the very vision of our Founding Fathers.

Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.

I will accept the results when the election is free and clean. I cannot accept fraud.

It is very clear in my mind that the French people elected Emmanuel, and they haven't elected me, although they knew, of course, that we were a couple.

We don't have a big party. We don't have election funding. We don't have television time.