Quotes About Elections

I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.

I can see a distinct anti-Modi and anti-NDA wave across the country.

It was only on sympathy wave had KCR won the elections in 2014 and became the chief minister.

There is no Modi wave. He has to attend so many rallies because there is no wave and also, BJP doesn't have a face to project.

I think the interesting thing about elections, as someone who has run through a couple of them, is that people are so busy in their lives that there are kind of waves of when people tune in and do the research and really dive in to decide who they're supporting. People take it at different paces, but there is this roaring focus at the end.

Voting is how we participate in a civic society - be it for president, be it for a municipal election. It's the way we teach our children - in school elections - how to be citizens, and the importance of their voice.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

If citizens do not believe they can change their leaders through the ballot box, they will find other ways, even at the risk of destabilizing their countries.

I have said this before. Donald Trump is very popular in Pennsylvania. We cannot afford to underestimate his popularity in our state. And I have emphasized that continuously.

Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

I think our politicians are bought by the highest bidder and that until we clean up our election system, then we cannot make progress on any of the issues. That's what drives me - we must restore our democracy.

We cannot do anything that exposes the country to the risk of Jeremy Corbyn.

Folks, do you agree with me that we cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama?

If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always to turn out 'their way.'

Weak presidents are neither respected nor electorally rewarded by their publics.

In the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, American voters were forced to choose between a liberal Democrat and weak establishment Republicans. Democrats won both times.

I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.

Plans without price tags are simply pandering.

I appeal to Muslims and Hindus, beware of the election plans of the BJP.

Those who elected Hamas in Palestine did so on the basis of its political platform.

A lot of people get elected to Congress, and sometimes a part of their pledge is a term-limit pledge. There's no accountability.

Congress as well as BJP candidates are in the pockets of Adanis.

What's the point of elections if everything is already decided?

We have a cleaner system of government in this state where people run based on their ideas, not based on their ability to raise money.