Quotes About Election

American foreign policy was a mirror image of Russian foreign policy: whatever the Russians did, we did in reverse. American domestic policies were conducted under a kind of upside-down Russian veto: no man could be elected to public office unless he was on record as detesting the Russians, and no proposal could be enacted, from a peace plan at one end to a military budget at the other, unless it could be demonstrated that the Russians wouldn't like it.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California.

Rajeev Gandhi was prime minister. We've had a long family relationship with them. He asked me to fight an election, and I went ahead and did it. But I was not qualified as a politician, and I am not going back there again.

The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader.

After President Obama's election, efforts at othering Obama quickly became about smearing his non-partisan allies and ambassadors.

I loved Gwyneth Paltrow in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' and Reese Witherspoon in 'Election.' I love quirky films and characters like that.

I read 'How to Rig an Election.' Well, I read parts of it. I wouldn't necessarily quote me as saying I read the whole thing.

This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.

I hate to rain on anyone's parade or burst the enthusiasm bubble, but talk is especially cheap during an election season.

There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.

When I first ran for mayor in 2005, I made a pledge to confront the epidemic of gun violence in Braddock.

I was very political when JFK ran.

For more than a decade after the 2000 election, leading Democrats ran from their gun control past and bent over backward to assuage the fears of gun owners.

I ran for president in 1996.

By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year.

When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

Dukakis ran without understanding that there was a Democratic Party out in the land, and he never did call on it.

I ran for Congress in 1992, but I lost the election, and I really dropped the idea of ever serving in Congress. Eventually, I went home and became the mayor of my city, West Palm Beach. I was mayor for eight years.

President Obama ran a campaign in 2008 that was entirely expected from a non-incumbent. You promise, and you imply that if you elect me, everything good is going to happen.

President Trump was elected because he offered a new approach in Washington, and I paid close attention as I ran my business back in Indiana.

When I was in the military, my dad ran in the Mike Harris 1995 Common Sense Revolution election, and that's where I really made the decision that one day I would love to run for office.

Oh my garden, I hope Cory Booker runs for president, just to watch him lose.