Quotes About Elections

I'm the only one in America who belongs to the 'Cure Cancer' party, so if you give money to cancer, like Harry Reid and Max Baucus, some of these guys really helped us raise big money for cancer, I give them big money for their reelections.

I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.

I ran for ninth grade class president. Came in a close second.

I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education.

We basically ran the Henry Bellmon campaign.

I ran for president of the student council at my high school in Louisville. And ran against a guy who I thought was better known and little bit better student and managed to win.

Nobody was going to beat Barack Obama in 2008. That's a fact. It was his moment. It wasn't that John McCain ran a bad campaign, or picked the wrong VP. It was just that it didn't matter, it was over when it started.

I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.

I'm not sure gay marriage was an issue that made or didn't make any single election that I can think of.

The PRI can afford to push democratization; it can afford to be generous because it has a very good chance of winning in clean elections.

I didn't eat for two days when Bill Clinton won, but after Obama's election, I was genuinely depressed.

I can't believe George Bush might be president.

In 21st-century America, as in Georgian Britain, elections are raucous, flamboyant, flag-waving, expensive, and sometimes ramshackle things.

If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.

I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.

I think people more and more are tired of the party system. People want good candidates and good people to win.

The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.

Ah, political physics. Someone wins an election and, poof, they are a candidate for vice president. Ridiculous.

We may like to think politics is a battle of ideas and that the best idea wins out. But that's not true in most elections. Most elections are about the worst ideas losing, not the best ideas winning.

Everyone I vote for never wins. Welcome to America.

In some countries that are darlings of the West, like Egypt, everyone knows the result of national elections years in advance: The man in power always wins. In others, like Saudi Arabia, the very idea of an election is unthinkable.

It is rarely the quick fix that goes the farthest. So don't get tempted by political cycles and the lure of electoral wins.

In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins.

The problem with the professional political class is they make money regardless of who wins.