Quotes About Elections

And all officeholders, whether chosen by lot or elected, were held closely to account.

Según la visión pesimista, en las elecciones de 2018, como dice la fábula, la hormiga, por odio a la cucaracha, votó por el insecticida: murieron todos, hasta el grillo que se abstuvo. Yo no soy tan pesimista, pero esto es lo que se va a probar en las elecciones intermedias de 2021. Espero que en estos comicios próximos las hormigas no voten por el insecticida.

Yo creo que la democracia está en peligro, pero no ha muerto. La situación me recuerda ese famoso dicho, según el cual perder unas elecciones es normal en una democracia: lo malo es perder la democracia en unas elecciones. Y eso es justamente lo que podría pasar en las próximas elecciones de 2021.

El líder populista, después de malgastar su herencia priista, regresa a su origen político para disfrutar del festín electoral de bienvenida. Como el hijo pródigo, retorna al seno familiar del nacionalismo revolucionario después de haber pasado unos años pecaminosos arrejuntado con la izquierda. Se regenera su fidelidad originaria y atrae los votos de priistas.

Según la visión pesimista, en las elecciones de 2018, como dice la fábula, la hormiga, por odio a la cucaracha, votó por el insecticida: murieron todos, hasta el grillo que se abstuvo.

Las elecciones de 2021 serán decisivas para la sobrevivencia de la democracia en México.

perder unas elecciones es normal en una democracia: lo malo es perder la democracia en unas elecciones. Y eso es justamente lo que podría pasar en las próximas elecciones de 2021.

Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change.

As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

Whoever we cast our vote for in the next presidential election or in the elections to come, we must vote for someone who is committed to both believing the truth and telling the truth no matter what the cost might be to them personally or to their administration. To do otherwise is to waste our vote on someone who is not worthy of the office of President of the United States.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.

People do not come out to vote for a United States Senator. They come out to vote for the Sheriff or the County Commissioner.

in the snake pit. (Officially, it was called the counting room.) Lawyers for each side met with inspectors of elections

The mass migration of the poorest of the poor to America is bad for the whole country, but it's fantastic for Democrats. Ask yourself: Which party benefits from illiterate non-English speakers who have absolutely no idea what they're voting for, but can be instructed to learn certain symbols?

Okay, fine. You won't vote for us, America? We tried this the easy way, but you give us no choice. We're going to overwhelm you with new voters from the Third World.

Hispanics will never vote for Republicans unless they pass amnesty. First of all, moron Republicans: If they can't vote, they can't vote against you.

With a lock on the racist mob vote, Democratic politicians won elections and promptly resegregated the entire South with Jim Crow laws. In 1913, Progressive Democrat president Woodrow Wilson even instituted segregation in Washington, D.C., bringing Jim Crow to the federal workforce.

In our next presidential election, an actor who reads his Bible would almost certainly defeat a rocket scientist who does not. Could there be any clearer indication that we are allowing unreason and otherworldliness to govern our affairs?

And ye peoples, to whom God gave the liberty to choose your own magistrates, see to it, that ye do not forfeit this favor, by electing to the positions of highest honor, rascals and enemies of God.

Most criminals are kind of dumb, which is why they're criminals. If they weren't criminals, they'd be doing something else to screw up people's lives, like running elections in Florida

Americans tell pollsters they want bipartisan cooperation. But those who actually vote don't value that as much—or they define "bipartisanship" as acquiescence by the other party to what their party believes.

Hillary Clinton is driving across Iowa in a van. It's to get to know the people she'll never, ever see again in her life.