Quotes About Elections

In our party, for the post of the prime minister or chief minister, there is no race, and nor does anyone stake their claim. Who will be the prime minister or chief minister, either our parliamentary board decides on this or the elected MLAs, in the case of chief minister, and MPs, in the case of the prime minister, select their leader.

I personally went canvassing door to door in a local race when I was in high school and thought it was kind of hilarious how worked up people got over such small stakes elections.

For most Democrats, politics is sports to them because they have no stakes because they don't pay tax.

The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in.

Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.

Republicans are good at standing by their candidate.

To present me as the main face of the opposition movement is completely incorrect. I'm not a person who is 'against Putin.' I'm just a person who is standing up for a fair society, for free elections.

Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.

One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.

If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office.

the European Union is like a giant pension fund for defunct politicians, who either cannot get elected in their own countries or are tired of the struggle to do so. It is a way for politicians to remain important and powerful, at the center of a web of patronage, after their defeat or loss of willingness to expose themselves to the rigors of the electoral process.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

I've never, in my whole 30 years in office, run a negative ad.

Would the Benjamin Netanyahu of the eve of the election want me to get hurt? Regretfully, I would say so.

Being completely neutral, Joe Biden would be all but impossible for Trump to beat.

Nevertheless, I don't hesitate to say that elections in Germany are decided in the center, not on the fringes and not in the accumulation of minority interests.

Getting elected as a Republican in Massachusetts is very, very different from being elected as a Republican in New Hampshire.

Thanks to my new job, I got a front row seat. I crossed the country covering the race, first between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and then between Obama and McCain. It was the political story of a lifetime.

2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There's an assortment of elections around the EU. We're very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.

Mitt Romney is a nice guy. But, we know where nice guys finish in politics.

The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.

There's no doubt that there's a public backlash against the way campaign money is raised, but I don't think the only alternative is to elect people with money.

Alexander Nix has no interest in the Republicans or Democrats winning or losing.

In fact, there is no law that says election results must come the same day as the election. Historically, they used to take days.