Quotes About Elections

It may be a sad commentary, but it is a fact that many people equate political campaigns with television advertising. If you're on the air, you're campaigning; if you're not on the air, you're nowhere. Just days after the first ad appeared, several people I encountered commented on it.

I hate that 74 million of my compatriots voted to keep in power our worst president, who convinced most of them that the election was stolen. The stab in the back will fester in their minds for years, a threat to the rest of us. But it's too easy to be riveted to that disturbing number and forget the 81 million who voted him out.

No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

Elections in L.A. are so different. Here you've got politicians with phony smiles making false promises to voters with fake boobs and bad toupees.

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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

When you think about Twitter and you think what a dumb stupid throwaway technology, and then you have the Iranian elections and it actually saves the day - you can't prejudge technologies now because they have effects you may not have intended.

One thing Republicans understand: In American elections, you have to choose from among only two people - not between the perfect and the good.

If you win elections on the theory that government is always bad and will mess up a two-car parade... a real change-maker represents a real threat. So your only option is to create a cartoon, a cartoon alternative, then run against the cartoon. Cartoons are two-dimensional; they're easy to absorb.

I think there's a lot of problems with being a two-party system.

There's a high level of frustration with the two-party system out there.

I was in Australia for many years. And the system there is a two-party system and the government changes from time to time.

Things won't change unless we have new types of candidates.

While normal people have to disclose donations directly to a candidate, there is no such transparency on people donating to certain types of nonprofit organizations that can play a major role in our elections.

We have to fundamentally change the way people are elected to political office in this country, as well as the types of people that are going into political office. It's dysfunctional because people on each side are only talking to themselves - they're not talking to each other and that is a function of how they get elected.

It is quite typical for Democrats and other political groups to incite or exploit racial hatred, prejudice, or tension for political gain around the time of elections.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

The only way to tyrantproof the presidency is not to elect tyrants to the presidency.

In the UK we have general elections roughly every four or five years because we know circumstances, situations and therefore opinions change over time.

If you think that a coup to overthrow the elected government is a coup everywhere, then you should remember how elections in Ukraine took place in 2004, how elections in Georgia took place in 2003, when the elections results have been torn and thrown away by revolutionary action.

The Tories seem unable to make any impact north of the border.

I request people of Tamil Nadu to vote for AIADMK in Thanjavur, Aravakurichi, Thiruparankundram and in Pondicherry. Though I'm unable do the campaigning in-person. My heart is there.