Quotes About Elections

If people think that local elections are won or lost on local education matters, that isn't happening.

Our elections are too important to risk even the appearance of impropriety.

We're going to do everything we can to harden our systems, to make sure that our elections are free and fair and the will of the American people is implemented.

Well, free elections are the foundation of our democracy.

I married Imran Khan when he was not winning elections.

The challenge of the Republican Party is, if we're going to start winning national elections, we've got to get along as all kinds of Republicans.

The opportunism of electoral politics makes people lie to each other.

The more Democrats try to abandon the values and policies embodied in our platform, the more we will continue to lose. We can't win by running on incrementalism.

I will continue to work with the Republican Party to try to encourage primaries.

For me, every election is equally important. That is how I have approached all elections.

The reason Jeb Bush is not doing well is because of his name. He is part of a long establishment Republican family, and this is not going well with the Republican Party.

Every American should understand that their vote is secret.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

America must be in really bad shape if you elected me president. You better get it together and find some other qualified people to run this country or we'll all be in big trouble.

The American people have a nasty habit of waiting until it's far too late to start giving a shit. By and large, your average eligible voter tunes in to politics once every two or four years because they have been scared, shocked, bullied, cajoled, stimulated, seduced, suckered, or outright fear fucked by one or more extremities of the hideous mutant that is our electoral process.

Gerrymandering isn't just a recent phenomenon, though; the word was coined in 1812 when Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry went to such egregious lengths to redraw the state senate districts in his party's favor that one district took on the shape of a salamander.

a politics based on cultural values and symbolism rather than bread-and-butter interests. When politics is waged on these grounds, elections are won by those who are most successful at "priming" our latent cultural and psychological markers, not those who best represent our economic interests.

The tin man vs. the straw man. The candidate with a brain but without a heart against the president with a heart but without a brain. That's how many Latin Americans are viewing the race between John Kerry and George W. Bush.

Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.

In Denmark, you have thirteen or more political parties, so it's not too difficult to find a party who reflect your views.

Free and fair elections are a bedrock of American democracy, and the IC remains vigilant against the various activities by China, as well as other threat countries and actors, which seek to affect.

In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now we inaugurate a new government on a day that transcends any one individual or any one party.