Quotes About Elections

It's often said that there are two fundamental sentiments that decide an election—hope for the future, and fear of it. If hope prevails, we're likely to elect more generous governments and reach out to the world, but if fear prevails, we elect inward-looking, nationalistic ones.

There's no question I'm going to do everything within the normal political bounds to make sure we don't nominate Donald Trump.

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

In a crazy world where he would get nominated, I'd like to see Obama run against Herman Cain. That would be fantastic. If Herman Cain became president, there'd be a certain sort of morbid curiosity for me.

I am very happy to be nominated by the Congress party to contest the Lok Sabha elections.

Although we can talk about an Indonesian democracy, or we can talk about democratic elections and democratic rituals - the trappings of democracy - we can't genuinely talk about democracy in Indonesia because there is not rule of law, and democracy without rule of law is a nonsense.

I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

We don't plan on winning in August - we plan on winning in November.

Well, let me tell you, after three years of Obama, we are hopeless and changeless, and we need Mitt Romney to bring us back, to bring America back.

Do you agree with me that we can't afford four more years of Barack Obama?

I ask Hoosiers to come together and vote for Barack Obama to be our next President.

Obviously, we shouldn't be having any American officeholder or any American candidate looking for foreign nations to come in and be involved in U.S. elections.

Welcome to our border city, sir. But what are you here for?" Ka explained that he had come to cover the municipal elections and also perhaps to write about the suicide girls. "As in Batman, the stories about the suicide girls have been exaggerated," the journalist replied. "Let's go over to meet Kas?m Bey, the assistant chief of police. They should know you've arrived—just in case.

The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn't have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn't have it, either. Government office should be received like a child's Christmas present, with surprise and delight. Instead it is usually received like a diploma, an anticlimax that never seems worth the struggle to earn it.

Dear friends, respected colleagues!" Nikonov said. "Three minutes ago Hillary Clinton admitted her defeat in US presidential elections and a second ago Trump started his speech as an elected president of the United States of America and I congratulate you on this."1 Even though Nikonov did not add what many in the Kremlin already knew, his brief statement was greeted by enthusiastic applause. Donald J. Trump had just become Vladimir Putin's man in the White House.

As the Nazis continued to lose national elections but increase their share of the vote, the octogenarian president, Paul von Hindenburg, selected as chancellor the bumbling Franz von Papen, who tried to rule through martial authority. When Philipp Frank came to visit him in Caputh that summer, Einstein lamented, "I am convinced that a military regime will not prevent the imminent National Socialist [Nazi] revolution."13 As

Negro voting rights were politically necessary for Grant and his party. Before the Civil War, the Republicans were exclusively a Northern party; but afterward, they would have to win elections in the South, state and federal, lest the Southern-based Democratic Party retake control of the federal government and reverse the Union victory. And the Republicans could not do that unless Negroes, their natural—and most numerous—constituency, were free to vote.

Politics is beginning to gather itself into an election season in which the price of a candidate's haircuts will be as important for a time as his position on war. The country is entertained, but not engaged. It is drowning in information and thirsty for knowledge.

Singaporeans wanted the benefits of PAP government nationally, but locally, they were prepared to elect opposition candidate to check on the ruling party in parliamnet

Right now, they don't, because they think you, the voter, doesn't care.

Making a nation awesome takes more than just Twitter outrage, street protests and a toppling of governments in elections. It asks for a fundamental shift in societal values, culture and habits.

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

Vote like your rights depend on it — they do.