Quotes About Elections

When politics is interesting, people go vote.

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary.

The role of money in politics is terrible, particularly when you're running for president. You get a handful of billionaires who can basically buy the White House.

I've always followed politics, and I think politics is everybody's business because we're electing someone who's going to be making important decisions that will affect all of our lives.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee...

The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.

If a politician wins in a dirty way at election, he will sat in position and works with corruption.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world short of war to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

Vote for the man who promises least he'll be the least disappointing.

Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad get even.

A statesman is an easy man He tells his lies by rote A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throat So stay at home and drink your beer And let the neighbours vote.

Money is the mother's milk of politics.

It's nice to have four years between elections. It takes people that long to regain their faith.

He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.

Money and donations are an important part of our political system. They are hard power.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

More men have been elected between sundown and sunup than ever were elected between sunup and sundown.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with Public Officials.