Quotes About Elections

If you add up all the promises any politician makes, the math doesn't work. Hillary Clinton's math doesn't work; Donald's math probably doesn't work. I think you have to listen to their campaign pitches more as symbolic, more as metaphors.

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

Often elections are tipped in favor of the person that the people are really against, because he's getting all the energy and all the focus

So if you're anti-war, be pro-peace instead. If you're antihunger, be pro-people having more than enough to eat. If you are anti-a-particular politician, be pro-his opponent. Often elections are tipped in favor of the person that the people are really against.

Y fue así como «el Tigrillo» Noriega, el ministro de Gobierno que se había declarado a sí mismo «el único autorizado para dar los resultados», anunció a las tres de la madrugada que, en un giro de los hechos digno del realismo mágico que ha estado poniéndose en boga, Pastrana estaba ganándole a Rojas por 4.346 votos nomás

Our regime," Franco announced grandly, "is based on bayonets and blood, not on hypocritical elections.

The best measure of a politician's electoral success was becoming not how successfully he could broker people's desires, but how well he could tap their fears.

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Estas elecciones son demasiado importantes para que se decidan con un puñado de burlas.

The people of the East End did not want to overthrow the British government. On the contrary, they were deeply attached to their elections and their borough councils and their Houses of Parliament. They liked their system of government so much that they were determined to defend it against Fascism even if it would not defend itself.

We're all idealists," said Lord Silverman, smoothing over the conflict like a good host. "That's why we're in politics. People without ideals don't bother. But we have to confront the realities of elections and public opinion.

Our government has betrayed us," said his father. "In your opinion. So what? In America, when the Republicans won the last election, the Democrats didn't riot!

got elected by promising law and order. The blatant hypocrisy of it all makes us kind of furious.

No matter who you vote for, the government stays in power

Money is power in American politics. It always has been.

Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure, or criminally motivated, or mad.

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.

The state sovereignty is key here in the Electoral College - and if you're going to start divvying up the power of each state's elections, you are destroying state sovereignty.

Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.

Democrats are awfully sensitive to losing power for a few years. I report, you decide.

A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as elections little more than rituals.

If you once cede to the Court the power to decide elections, let alone even the power to halt counting of the votes, then you have ceded it everything.

Power to the Democrats is an entitlement, elections are a formality, and they should never lose. And especially to somebody like Donald Trump, who they think is a reprobate and a horrible guy.