Quotes About Elections

I am a United States citizen and I vote.

I want to make it clear that BSP will not extend any kind of support to Modi or NDA to form the government at any cost.

I supported my friend Congressman Shuler over former Speaker Nancy Pelosi during our party's leadership elections in November citing a need for new leadership.

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.

My father never ran for office or supported anybody for office, and was not engaged in that at all.

Democracies stand on several key pillars: Free and fair elections, human rights, the rule of law, and a free untrammeled media. Until 2016, an open media was seen as a resilient democratic pillar that supported the others.

All Labour supporters and politicians know that winning elections is extremely difficult, but my first year as mayor of London has taught me that governing - driving change and delivering results - is even harder.

The people who are supporting Herman Cain are the type of people that show up and vote in the primary.

AIADMK is committed to supporting an Indian for the Prime Minister's post.

Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the democratic process and encouraging elections, in spite of the fact that a war was going on in several of these countries.

I have given to Democrats in the past. I've always believed in supporting the best candidate at the time.

There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence.

Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.

Hillary Clinton will nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are prepared to overturn Citizens United!

It's time to review what damage the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission has done to our political system.

Not surprisingly, in most Sunni regions there has little appetite for free U.S.-sponsored elections.

We live in what is called a democracy, rule by the majority of the people. A fine ideal if it could be made to work. The people elect, but the party machines nominate, and the party machines to be effective must spend a great deal of money. Somebody has to give it to them, and that somebody, whether it be an individual, a financial group, a trade union or what have you, expects some consideration in return.

We live in what is called a democracy, rule by the majority of the people. A fine ideal if it could be made to work. The people elect but the party machines nominate, and the party machines to be effective must spend a great deal of money. Somebody had to give it to them, and that somebody, whether it be an individual, a financial group, a trade union, or what have you, expects some consideration in return.

Praise and blame are all the same is a fancy way of reminding yourself of the old cliché that you'll never be able to please all the people all the time. Even in a landslide election victory in which a candidate secures 55 percent of the vote, he or she is left with 45 percent of the population that wishes someone else were the winner. Pretty humbling, isn't it?

It is time for South Carolina to rejoin the Union. It is time to fall in step with the other states and to adopt the American way of conducting elections.… Racial distinctions cannot exist in the machinery that selects the officers and lawmakers of the United States.

Charles Schumer (D-N .Y.) Terms: 2 (9 in House) Total raised: $62.2 million Top donors: A major defender of Wall Street interests before the crash, Schumer has netted more big-bank money than any member of Congress who hasn't run for President. Over one-hundred-million dollars was given to Chuck Schumer over the past decade!

representative government is] deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to misrepresent the people in Parliament

oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

No man can hope to be elected in his state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan's Famous.