Quotes About Elections

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.

A man is judged by the company he keeps, and a company is judged by the men it keeps, and the people of Democratic nations are judged by the type and caliber of officers they elect.

If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.

If we only elected good men, we'd never have leaders.

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

though this was not formally demonstrated until the 2010 mid-term elections to Congress Ã¢â'¬â€œ Facebook was a highly effective tool for political mobilization, especially when used to target local non-digital networks.

I'm going to take part in the elections, not just as a candidate but as a mouthpiece for those who can't become candidates.

If Barack Obama is elected, I'll be moving out of the country.

It seems the BJP desperately needs to win Mumbai to stand on its feet once again. After all, the greed to win Mumbai will continue to remain, no matter how many States you win.

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

Republicans don't vote Republican because of Nancy Pelosi. They vote Republican because they are Republicans.

Election security is national security, and we have to start acting like it.

National elections have to be fought on who can ensure better national security, who can give us a sound economic system... ensure financial discipline... And this work can only be done by Narendra Modi.

soy un infiel descreído de Dios. Al menos, así voté en las últimas elecciones.

I had reason to believe that the administration was a little afraid to have a decisive battle at that time, for fear it might go against us and have a bad effect on the November elections. The convention which had met and made its nomination of the Democratic candidate for the presidency had declared the war a failure. Treason was talked as boldly in Chicago at that convention as ever been in Charleston.

Ez ám a siker: általános választások útján hozni létre zsarnoki rendszert! Úgy hajtott végre önkényuralmi puccsot a nyomorult, hogy közben a birka népre hivatkozhatott! Láthatjuk, milyen jövÅ' vár a demokráciára.

And now in the union Jurgis met men who explained all this mystery to him; and he learned that America differed from Russia in that its government existed under the form of a democracy. The officials who ruled it, and got all the graft, had to be elected first; and so there were two rival sets of grafters, known as political parties, and the one got the office which bought the most votes. Now

In countries where the people have the ballot you have to promise them something desirable, otherwise the opposition will outbid you.

for he seemed to have but one rule: to think of everything that ten thousand Württembergers could possibly want, and promise it to them, to be delivered on the day when they would elect the candidates

When they get through, the country will be in the hands of the very same men who financed Hitler and who will have no idea in the world but to finance some new 'strong' government to keep the Socialists from winning an election.

Here, too, many would scold at the government, but for the opposite reason, that it couldn't keep its mind made up; it was composed of polite old gentlemen who couldn't bear to disturb things or to displease their subordinates, the bureaucrats, no matter what election results came in.

After fighting for four long years, we were completely surprised by the Soviets' efforts to absorb Eastern Europe, and their rejection of almost all wartime assurances of elections to come.