Quotes About Elections

Elections come and go, people win and lose, that is part of politics. It doesn't anyway change things on the ground.

The campaign commercials don't tell you anything.

The key here is that we're not going to beat them on commercials: They're always going to have more money than us. So what we have to try to do throughout is just ask people to make sure they vote.

My elections are really not about campaigns. I tell my people that these are about a movement. And a movement to do what? To restore common sense. A movement to do things like provide economic growth. And a movement not to let anybody be behind.

Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.

We were, in a way, out-marketed because we couldn't really compete with the BJP that went into elections under Mr Modi.

Competition in politics is just as important as competition in everything else.

You can't complain or have a say if you don't vote.

One of the reasons why I'm speaking out is because I think that it's really concerning that no one has really investigated Cambridge Analytica and its role in the 2016 election.

In 2010, we have to focus on electing a new Congress and in 2012 we have to focus on electing a new president.

You can't win a congressional seat unless you have money. Even if you do, it's tick-tock, tick-tock until someone with more money beats you.

We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.

Congressional dysfunction is the logical result of closed primaries, too many gerrymandered one-party seats, and low-turnout elections.

Primaries are the place where you see whose message is connecting with the largest number of people.

American elections should be for Americans. And the idea that we would have foreign nation-states coming into the American electoral process, or the information surrounding an election, is really, really bad.

I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.

Spain is an example of how hard it is for a conservative party to campaign for elections if the suspicion is fueled that it wants to go into a coalition with the extreme right.

As the country's third-largest state by population, Florida is the crown jewel in the Electoral College among swing states.

New Mexico has been, in the past, a swing state.

Black Fergusonians have shown that they will vote when they have something to vote for and know that their vote will count. Seventy-six percent of them turned out in November 2012, when Missouri was a key swing state for Barack Obama's reelection.

Florida has been, and will continue to be, a swing state.

And when a few noncitizens vote, those can swing a close election.

Michigan has always been a swing state, so we understand that the goal is to have two political parties, debating the issues with empathy and respect.

It requires an effort of logical acrobatics to believe that carnage of innocents is an instrument for freedom and elections are a symbol of deception and repression!