Quotes About Elections

Donald Trump disproved the notion that there is a direct dollar-for-dollar correlation between how much money you had in your traditional war chest and what your election outcome was going to be.

In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans.

I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.

I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and to be elected as a member of the Legislature.

Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

Today is elections day and I am stepping out to help write a chapter that will form a part of my unborn children's history exam in the future.

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

America has the best politicians money can buy.

I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

I entered politics in 1967; since then, continuously, I am getting elected... Fortunately I never lost the elections.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.