Quotes About Elections

Any district attorney knows that an endorsement from law enforcement unions is vital to earning voters' trust. As a result, police unions play an outsized role in district attorney elections.

Voters do not choose candidates because of their ideological fit. They choose them because of their cultural fit.

To win in 2020, a Democratic nominee will need to win back voters in key Midwestern states who supported Trump in 2016.

Even when they are trying to deceive the voters, the Democrats are incompetent.

It was very important to my father-in-law that we didn't feel like we deserted our base of voters.

Who the voter chooses to vote for is up to him or her, I would only request all eligible voters to go out and vote.

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

To anyone who sees himself as right-wing, I say you should vote right-wing.

The Alternative Vote is sectarian and self-serving and it will not improve people's lives.

Akalis are going to be down in the dumps, they and the BJP, whether they stay together or fight separately.

At the end of the day, European politicians face the ballot box, as do all of us politicians.

If people are interested in changing the direction of the country, Iowa is the battleground.

In 2016, Trump won by winning battleground states that few expected him to win.

In his postpresidential notes, Harry Truman was candid about the tricky nature of democracy. Yes, much of the nation's fate lies in the hands of the president, but the voters have the ultimate authority. "The country has to awaken every now and then to the fact that the people are responsible for the government they get," Truman wrote. "And when they elect a man to the presidency who doesn't take care of the job, they've got nobody to blame but themselves.

The country has to awaken every now and then to the fact that the people are responsible for the government they get," Truman wrote. "And when they elect a man to the presidency who doesn't take care of the job, they've got nobody to blame but themselves.

Campaigns and elections are the process in which democracy separates the willing from the able, and goes with the willing.

Outside, the middle class was disappearing faster than the icecaps, xenophobes were winning elections or stocking up on assault rifles, warring tribes were butchering each other religiously, but inside, disruptive new technologies were rendering traditional politics obsolete.

listened to ordinary citizens risking imprisonment by demanding fair elections, free travel, the neutering of the Stasi.

He then desired to know, "What arts were practised in electing those whom I called commoners: whether a stranger, with a strong purse, might not influence the vulgar voters to choose him before their own landlord, or the most considerable gentleman in the neighbourhood?

The other parties campaign for parliamentary seats, more or less. We campaign for our principles!

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is... the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

There is nothing that I would dread doing more than having to pick up arms against a fellow American. And the way that we can have recourse against that is if we all passionately demand that we have election security in all 50 states.

Elections are about the future and not about the past.