Quotes About Elections

The Ferguson riots of 2014 immediately preceded the midterm elections, where the Republicans picked up a mindboggling sixty-three seats in the House and six seats in the Senate. (Fun fact: the Wikipedia entry is listed as "Ferguson unrest," which is the leftist euphemism for rioting.)

We live in a time when we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president… a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons…. We are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush.

We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

It certainly is an odd circumstance if you live your life without regard for being elected and then get elected—and quite an opportunity for your enemies.

Curiosamente, la prensa, aunque estaba perdiendo la cuasi totalidad de sus lectores, había incrementado en estos últimos años su poder nocivo, ahora podía arruinar vidas, y no se privaba de hacerlo, sobre todo en período electoral, incluso el recurso de un procedimiento judicial se había vuelto inútil, una simple sospecha bastaba para destruir a alguien

I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.

To be elected president, you have to do more than tear down your opponents. You have to give the American people a reason to vote for you - a reason to hope - a reason to believe that under your leadership, America will be better.

When New Yorkers went to the polls a few weeks later, election officials came across the names of two unexpected write-in candidates for state treasurer: John D. Rockefeller and Charles Ponzi.

It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.

It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

Puede que ganar unas elecciones siga siendo una de las grandes emociones de la vida, pero el brillo de esa victoria se extingue ahora muy rápido para dar paso a la frustración.

unas elecciones perdidas siempre pueden volver a ganarse, pero un cambio de reglas significa una situación completamente nueva.

Los grupos de interés que tienen un solo objetivo (los ecologistas, los antiinmigrantes, etcétera) ya no solo tratan de influir sobre las decisiones de quienes han llegado a gobernar por la vía de los votos sino que, con mucha frecuencia, ellos mismos tratan de obtener esos votos y ser elegidos para cargos de influencia.

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

A politician will come out and say Abantu banshabire ngu nyetsimbe and loose elections. Nah which people sent you?

True democracy means responding to the wishes and will of the people. It has nothing to do with the populists running for office.

In Britain, more people now vote on "reality TV" shows (voting, for instance, to eject a contestant from a "Big Brother" house) than vote in elections.

In the United States, whoever you vote for, you still get a millionaire.

An astute observer wrote in 1924 that American voters preferred to "cherish the unrealities they have absorbed" based upon "the primal instinct to defeat the side they hate or fear.

I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

If the altered demographic profile of the two parties in the 2016 election—almost perfectly replicated in the 2018, 2020, and 2022 elections—is signaling America's newest political realignment, it would be the first since the Nixon-Reagan elections of 1968 to 1980, roughly forty to fifty years earlier. By Walter Dean Burnham's count (as we saw in Chapter 4), that would suggest America is now moving into its seventh party system.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

Democracy and 'progressive democracy' are synonymous, and indistinguishable from the expansion of the state, Since winning elections is overwhelmingly a matter of vote buying, and society's informational organs (education and media) are no more resistant to bribery than the electorate, a thrifty politician is simply an incompetent politician, and the democratic variant of Darwinism quickly eliminates such misfits from the gene pool.