Quotes About Elections

We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks.

Don't forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you're voting for Dole.

We hope for the best, if elections are conducted like this all over South Africa we can indeed say we welcome any results and accept them.

Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.

I hope Donald Trump doesn't become president of the United States and I expect the people of the United States will have the good sense not to elect him.

My worry is that Donald Trump may inspire copycats, also in Europe. That's why I hope Hillary Clinton wins.

I'm hoping that we're not getting to Second Amendment remedies. I hope the vote will be the cure for the Harry Reid problems.

Finally, in 1954 [Ho Chi Minh] agreed to the Geneva Agreement, which divided the country temporarily into two zones, in the hope that national elections might unify the country under his leadership.

Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.

Elections are always a little bit funny. People start saying things and emphasizing differences. After the election, my hope is, is that people start emphasizing what we have in common.

I don't expect that Albert Gore is going to become president, and I certainly hope we never see Tipper Gore in the White House. Can you imagine Tipper saying, "Just say no"?

The most we can hope for is strong marriages. Married women vote Republican; single women vote Democratic.

In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.

Barack Obama will appeal to both black and white voters in America. White voters who'll think he's Tiger Woods.

Barack Obama may be black, but John McCain is the first Albino presidential candidate: he's completely see-through!

We keep electing council members for appearance sake, it doesn't mean anything, and it is just a show for the people, so that they may sleep well at night with their delusion of peace.

Democrats have become very good at electing very bad Republicans

Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing - until someone wins.

Congressmen are like diapers - You need to change them often, and for the same reason

the common good is defined by who wins at the polls, and the policies they make. Like it or lump it.

it represents a large, independent swing vote—whose key concerns are seldom passionately represented by either side in any election—rather than a force that affirmatively shapes the national agenda.

even if ballots are not stuffed by the ruling party on the day of the election, a vote can be undemocratic if the opposition can never make its case properly and journalists are prevented from reporting a government's failures.

Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.

To understand the impact of this combination of gerrymandering and the geographic factors, consider that Barack Obama received some 5 million more votes than Mitt Romney did in 2012 yet carried only 209 House districts. Romney carried 226.