Quotes About Elections

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.

I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.

I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.

I think the air is out of the gun control balloon, and I think what popped the balloon is politics and elections.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

Money is the fuel that makes political victory possible. Sadly, folks, in many cases it's more important than ideas. And this is what turns off so many people to politics.

The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.

National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.

If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?

The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.

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.

People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.

Nothing is the matter with Mr. Gore except that he can't be elected.

Our leaders are the finest men, that's whey we elect them again and again.

Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?

It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track.

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.