Quotes About Election

I do not think it is a coincidence that young people gravitated toward populist voices in the French election and that the two issue positions where Donald Trump and young voters seem to agree most - global engagement and trade - are rooted in populism.

I do believe Hong Kong's 5 million eligible voters want the chance to elect their chief executive.

Traditional Conservative voters like me should lend their support to the Liberal Democrats but I think I am best placed to run as an independent.

To hear the Conservatives issue a command that all Leave voters must vote Tory, this seems insultingly complacent.

You cannot win the democratic nomination if you are not trusted on the most important issue to democratic voters.

If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it.

Running for Senate is a very involved process.

If I made decisions around here based on the election, I wouldn't be a very good senator.

The first election I remember was Dewey Truman in '48. I was, I guess, seven years old.

Mofaz was elected to head Kadima since the party had been shattered.

Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.

I want to be elected on my own ability. Only then do you have progress... People should not use race as a basis for labelling me.

I believe Huckabee should have run again in 2012. Everyone was begging for him to do so. He beat Romney in 2008, and I believe he would have done it again in 2012.

1940, fearing a third Roosevelt term, the Third Reich had sought to influence the presidential election by placing newspaper ads and paying for isolationist congressmen to attend the Republican National Convention.

General Grant, John Hay recalled, was "deeply impressed with…the late Presidential election. The point which impressed him most powerfully was that which I regarded as the critical one—the pivotal centre of our history—the quiet and orderly character of the whole affair. No bloodshed or riot….It proves our worthiness of free institutions, and our capability of preserving them without running into anarchy or despotism.

Finally, at one p.m. on Tuesday, February 17, 180161, on the thirty-sixth ballot, Jefferson prevailed. R

No incumbent vice president had been elected to succeed an incumbent president since Martin Van Buren won in 1836.

In 1940, fearing a third Roosevelt term, the Third Reich had sought to influence the presidential election by placing newspaper ads and paying for isolationist congressmen to attend the Republican National Convention.

Thomas E. Dewey—once said: "You can't divide the country up into sections and have one rule for one section and one rule for another, and you can't encourage people's prejudices. You have to appeal to people's best instincts, not their worst ones. You may win an election or so by doing the other, but it does a lot of harm to the country.

to repudiate the election of God is to repudiate the God of election.

Y a trois sortes de tyrans : les uns ont le royaume par élection du peuple, les autres par la force des armes, les autres par succession de leur race.

It's an election year. We would prefer that voters didn't use common sense.

I have no choice, which is the best kind of choice.

More important than winning the election, is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party -- the acid, final test.