Quotes About Elections

I soon realised the state rulers were being protected by the federal government who relied on these rotten boroughs to deliver their vote.

I can assure you that women all over the country are paying close attention to the GOP 'War on Women.'

I rallied against Clinton when he was in office. I didn't vote for him in '96. I didn't vote for Gore in 2000.

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

Accepting that Arabs have the right to elect their own leaders means accepting the rise of governments that do not share America's pro-Israel militancy.

Governor Romney is a good debater.

I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.

America needs Governor Huckabee for president!

A president's power is limited. We need to vote down the ballot as well, from your councilman all the way up to your governors and congressman.

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

I would like to express my deep gratitude to the people of Bijepur Assembly constituency for having showered their blessings on the BJD.

I don't think it's a coincidence that 'The War Room' and 'A Perfect Candidate' are films that have been consistently shown and available for rental for 20 years. These are films that are more about the moment in which they were filmed: they also have a great deal to say about larger issues about who we are as a country.

The Republican Party is in a great place for 2018 and I think Americans will continue to support the Trump agenda.

Politicians love to beat up on guys that are seen to be public enemies, if you will. That's a great way to get elected.

The Greens have never been on the ballot in Georgia because of restrictive ballot access laws.

The real dynamic is that when Greens are in the debates, Conservatives don't do as well.

We need to vote people out of office that are perpetuating issues affecting young people, like gun violence.

If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.

Haiti is back on the path to democracy.

In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.

While there are many progressive strategic initiatives we can all rally behind, we will look at four possibilities by way of example: clean elections, healthy food, ethical business, and transit-for-all.

Conservatives talk constantly about the centrality of morality and the family in their politics, while liberals did not talk about these things until conservatives started winning elections by doing so.

As the share of the nation's wealth going to the wealthy rises, the share going to everyone else falls. What else falls? The freedom that wealth can buy, the quality of life that wealth can buy, the power that wealth can buy, and the electoral influence that wealth can buy. Technically, we may still have one person, one vote. But the effect of one person on elections has gone way down.

It is vital that progressives understand why just citing the facts doesn't work, and why attention to public discourse must be constant, not just focused on elections.