Quotes About Elections

Damn and dump this Exit poll result in the garbage.

Dean and Leach represented Fairmount in an hourlong debate against Marion High that was broadcast on local radio. They argued the affirmative side of the proposition, "The election of United States presidents should be by the direct vote of the people.

I don't think it's so important who you vote for - you vote for who you believe in. The important thing is to vote, because it's our way and it's the best way.

If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.

It may be the best that Hillary Clinton can do, but it's not the best America can do.

The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.

In business, people are held accountable. In Washington, nobody is held accountable. In business, people are judged on results. In Washington, people are measured by their ability to get reelected.

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.

Republicans can't run for office without the support of business.

It's not just tougher out there. It's become a situation where the contest is how much you can destroy the system, rather than how much you can make it work. It makes no difference if you have a 'D' or an 'R' after your name. There's no sense that this is about democracy, and after the election you have to work together, and knit the country together. The people in the game now just think to the first Tuesday in November, and not a day beyond it.

Politicians spend so much time raising money because that is how you win elections.

Nine out of ten times in the House of Representatives, and eight out of ten times in the Senate, the candidate who spends the most money wins.

I didn't know you were interested in politics,' I said. 'I'm not,' he said. 'But isn't that how Hitler got elected in the first place: too many people who didn't give a shit who was running the country?

Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.

The inherent flaw with democratic elections is that they peddle the repulsive stink of neither/nor as the sultry perfume of either/or.

En las siguientes elecciones, voy a votar por tu mamá para que sea el siguiente Dios –Dice Tony cuando tomo el teléfono.

in successive elections, Douglass made the memory of emancipation his major preoccupation, pushing his readers to never forget what the war had been about. In the fall of 1870 he warned that Americans were by habit "destitute of political memory.

We want to be the alternative party in Tamil Nadu.

Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy.

Weve been around for 500 years and never shut up, much less to a monarch. The king is the head of state just like me. The only difference is I've been elected three times with 63 per cent. We are equal as heads of state, be it the leader of the Indian State Evo Morales or King Juan Carlos of Spain.

No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live. Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined.

General Iskander Mirza had shared with the high commissioner the view that democracy was unsuited to a country like Pakistan, even as plans were publicly laid out for general elections. The high commissioner reported that the president had told him of his intention to intervene "if the election returns showed that a post-electoral government was likely to be dominated by undesirable elements.

La sociedad civil solidaria y organizada que tanto se jactó de su emergencia con los sismos es la misma que luego bajó las manos ante el fraude electoral de 1988, la misma que creyó y avaló la construcción de la efímera quimera salinista, la misma que en nuestros días ejerce sus labores democráticos como si se tratara de imperativos neuróticos. ¿Negamos los sismos porque los vinculamos con esta penosa actualidad social y política?

If people begin to use the full power of conscience in all the choices they make in their everyday life, from presidential elections to purchasing things in the grocery store, the world will change.