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Quotes About Elections

Most of my promos are straight out of Pat Buchanan's run for election.
~ John Layfield
I haven't given up on working... across the aisle on issues and maybe it'll take an election or two for that to fully ferment, maybe it you know sometimes it takes awhile for people to realize what the best path is.
~ David Axelrod
I'm enough of a patriot to think that the American public makes good choices.
~ Richard Ben Cramer
The idea that the Hispanic vote hinges on one issue - immigration - is the most ridiculous and patronizing notion.
~ Rachel Campos-Duffy
Ron Paul is not going to be president, so we don't have to worry about who's going to be in his cabinet.
~ Charles Krauthammer
I kinda halfway paid attention to politics during my early years, but the older you get, the more you realize it's very important to pay attention to who gets elected. They can ruin the country.
~ Ray Stevens
If you're going to get elected to anything in Mississippi, you have to pay attention to and court the black vote.
~ Mike Espy
Of course the Liberal Democrats are going to say things to try and get attention - but I don't think the country is paying much attention.
~ George Osborne
Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.
~ Jello Biafra
I don't think it's a bad thing to say everybody pays $10 and if you go to vote you get your $10 back. And if you don't vote that money goes to support the election process.
~ Michael Capuano
I'm fighting for Marine Le Pen to become president.
~ Marion Marechal-Le Pen
We don't want someone who will get 98 percent of the vote. We want someone who will get 51 percent of the vote.
~ Ann Coulter
The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
~ Larry King
No one likes the Electoral College, expect perhaps those who were elected because of it. No one likes gerrymandering, except those doing the gerrymandering. No one likes the filibuster, except those doing the filibustering.
~ Kevin Bleyer
Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.
~ Richard Lugar
If I were a Democrat, I'd centralize power in Washington by nationalizing our elections. It wouldn't be enough to hold all three branches temporarily. I'd need to make it permanent.
~ Lauren Boebert
It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
~ Rand Paul
It is literally painful to watch Rick Perry as a candidate.
~ James Carville
In the first ever free general elections in Pakistan, the Awami League of East Pakistan, led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, won a clear majority in the Pakistan National Assembly (PNA). With this, the history of the subcontinent reached a turning point in 1971.
~ Pranab Mukherjee
Today we live side by side without knowing one another. We come together at meetings on an election day: we listen to the lying or fanciful professions of faith of a candidate, and we return home. The State has the care of all questions of public interest; the State alone has the function of seeing that we do not harm the interests of our neighbor, and, if it fails in this, of punishing us in order to repair the evil.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
We must not ignore the younger electorate in a fight for older swing voters who we can be confident will go to the polls.
~ Hilary Benn
There's a clear distinction between activities that threaten the security and integrity of our election systems, and the broader threat from influence operations designed to influence voters.
~ Christopher A. Wray
The AAP tried to lure the voters by giving them freebies, but they only gave free water that was dirty and unfit.
~ Nagma
Trump showed you can get elected by voters who think very poorly of you.
~ Steve Kornacki