Quotes About Elections

You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

If you look at attitudes today and where they are headed, it's clear to me that supporting equal rights, including the rights to civil marriage, is a net positive for winning elections, as well as the right thing to do.

If Trump wins, I think the whole thing is going to blow up, and we're going to start over, and that's always a good thing to do.

As we've always said, in politics the person with the biggest number wins.

So far we have 4 open elections with no minority Malay President. So 2017 must remain an open election and if no minority Malay President wins in 2017, than a reserved election will be triggered in 2023.

Even if AAP wins municipal elections we will continue to demand probe into EVM tampering because it threatens the base of democracy.

You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.

It's rare when a president wins the campaign without winning independents.

I always think that the party that offers the most hope and ideas for the future is the party that wins.

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state.

Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.

There's no question about the fact that for Democrats, Texas is a tough place.

I'm the first Thai prime minister in history that first time win half of parliament seats and second time win 76% of parliamentary seats and I was ousted because too popular.

Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name on the ballot. There are many people who would do a great job, but who would never think to run. Find them. Badger them. Get them elected. They might not thank you for it, but a lot of other people will.

I want to explain to everyone that during election season, a politician is always short of time. We are thankful to any politician who takes out time for an interview.

The first thing I learned is that campaigns are about money. I had this romantic idea that campaigns were about law and debates and so forth, which is just not true. It's about money.

History will record that the Citizens United decision is one of the worst in the history of our country.

In the history of U.S. elections, the fall of 2000 is notorious for the debacle that occurred in the country's attempt to elect a president that year.

In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

Today, we say the only thing we have to fear is four more years of George Bush.

The problem with the Democratic Party is, we're like, 'If we just get another presidential candidate in there, everything will be OK.' We should be focusing on school boards, city council races, state legislatures.

When elections are not democratic, even the most populist discussions become superficial, disconnected from real power; they are theatre.

But it can't be repeated often enough: believers must avoid the usual trap of thinking that politics can solve cultural and religious problems. Trusting Republican politicians and the judges they appoint to do the work that only cultural change and religious conversion can do is a big reason Christians find ourselves so enfeebled. The deep cultural forces that have been separating the West from God for centuries will not be halted or reversed by a single election, or any election at all.