Quotes About Elections

BALLOT BOX. The altar of democracy.

A mugwump is a man in politics who never votes for anybody, but who is always voting against somebody.

How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?

And that conviction will, I dare say, be backed up by the greatest torrent of money ever poured out to influence an American election — poured out by the men who fear nothing so much as change and who want everything to stay as it is — only more so. This idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal — that you can gather votes like box-tops — is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

Not voting is not a protest — it is a surrender.

Why can we land people on the Moon, machines on Mars and transfer trillions internationally, but can't figure out how to run efficient, accurate and fair elections?

The right to vote is the crown jewel of American liberties, and we will not see its luster diminished.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

where the ballot-box, more precious than any work in ivory or marble, from the cunning hand of art, has been plundered.

una victoria electoral de la izquierda habría inducido a los fascistas a tratar de subir al poder mediante el habitual golpe de Estado militar. En todo caso habría que enfrentarse a ellos con las armas en la mano. Los acontecimientos han confirmado la corrección de este cálculo; el análisis de los anarquistas era más realista que el de los políticos tradicionales.

Bitler, politikan?n önemli bir parças? olmu?tur. ?sveç Hurdenburg'da, Orta Ça?'daki belediye ba?kan? seçimi anlat?l?r: "Adaylar masan?n etraf?na oturur, ba?lar?n? e?ip sakallar?n? masaya koyarlar. Sonra bir bit masan?n ortas?na konur ve hangisinin sakal?na giderse o, s?radaki y?l için belediye ba?kan? seçilir.

On the subject of "personal beauty," for example, Lincoln merrily confided he felt fortunate that "'the women couldn't vote,' otherwise the monstrous portraits of him which had been circulated during the canvas by friends as well as by foes would surely defeat him.

The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

This is pretty much what the Democratic party has come to: getting to the polls the maximum number possible of the least-informed and most easily swayed voters, and constantly trawling for more.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

the candidate that gets covered is the candidate that it is most profitable to cover

Mas apenas eleições não fazem uma democracia. Democracia quer dizer poder para o povo, mas poder quer dizer algo mais que apenas eleições. Em nossa tradição isso também significa controle através de críticas racionais.

Elections are a Western jerk-off.

To straddle the middle ground and win elections, we have to be in charge of the political agenda. This can only be done by not being beaten in the argument with our critics. They complain that I come down too hard on their arguments. But wrong ideas have to be challenged before they influence public opinion and make for problems. Those who try to be clever at the expense of the government should not complain if my replies are as sharp as their criticisms.

And that's all you would have got under the American or British system of first-past-the-post,' said Lottie. 'It was proportional representation that inflated your gains.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.