Quotes About Elections

My positions on gun safety have remained consistent over the years, and have been on my website for years. Whether I'm in a tough re-election race, an easy re-election race, or if it isn't an election year, whether there's a high-profile tragedy in the news or otherwise, my position remains unchanged and on my website.

A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.

According to various polls conducted, the single most important issue in last week's election was not the Iraq War, not the War on Terror, not even the economy. It was the cultural war.

First there was the New Hampshire primary, and we had nearly a year leading up to it. And now, look! Three primaries in one weekend! How many of these things are they going to have?

It's troubling that by eliminating weekend voting hours, the state of Ohio specifically banned a popular voting time of choice for minorities. In Cuyahoga County, which I represent, 56 percent of weekend voters in 2008 were African American while adult African Americans comprise 28 percent of the county population.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

My policies and my record are very clear that I have made it easier to vote. We have made the elections process more accessible to people in Georgia, not less, despite their rhetoric.

On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace.

What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash.

Had there not been these safety valves of political parties and elections, we may very well have had no way to change except forceful overthrow of government.

I never imagined in my life that I will fight elections or form a political party.

Forming an alliance is not the tradition of the AAP and we will not fight elections in collaboration with any political party or front.

Our party's agenda is not only to form a government, but also to facilitate a political process.

We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.

For a politician, the long term is between now and the next election.

I'm an elected politician. If you don't agree with me, vote for somebody else.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

It seems the more shallow and mean the candidates are the more they rise in the polls.

I don't believe in the polls. I try to concentrate on the day of elections.

If a candidate at the MLA or chief ministerial level gets an advantage of belonging to a particular caste while fighting polls, that is one thing. But after having been elected, if you only look after the developmental needs of a particular caste or community, that is a different matter altogether. The BJP has never done that.

You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.

When it comes to scaring the bourgeoisie into showing up at the polls, nothing works better than negative advertising.

Exit polls have gone notoriously wrong in the past.

I don't look at polls. It's about results. And every single time that people have had an opportunity to vote for me, we've been on top.