Quotes About Elections

China, Russia, Iran and other adversaries each pose a threat to our elections, and the Trump administration seeks to counter all of those threats in a serious, professional and apolitical fashion.

I've noticed that in the U.S., when the president hits the three-year mark in office, he goes into re-election campaigning.

Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking, 'Which candidate are Americans more ready for: a white woman or a black man?'

I will not allow America's elections to be further corrupted by radical left-wing policies shoved down our throats.

I never know from one election to the next who's going to be in office, but I know who's on the throne. And I'm on this earth because God created me. And that's who I answer to.

All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

I am contesting elections since 1952, but never did I throw mud.

Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition.

It's almost a very rough rule of thumb: when Democrats are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around middle-class fears, Democrats win the election; when Republicans are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around cultural fears, Republicans win the election.

There's an old rule of thumb in politics that 90 percent of all 90 year-olds vote and 25 percent of all 25 year-olds vote.

As a general rule of thumb, Democrats do better in national elections when the year's defining issue is economic fairness, and Republicans do better when the defining issue is national security.

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

I am not a pundit or a psephologist and thus not in the business of calling elections.

In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates.

Minnesotans are ticket splitters. They look to the candidate, not the party, which is the way it should be, and that's only going to help me.

I really feel it's time to dissolve the current relationship of governor and lieutenant governor by running as a ticket.

Donald Trump at the head of the Republican ticket affords Democrats a great opportunity.

BSP gives tickets to Muslim candidates in areas where they are in good numbers so that they can enter Parliament and Assembly. On the contrary, Congress gives only a few tickets to the minorities.

No one with a bad tie is getting my vote. Some Lib Dems wear the most shockingly awful ties.

No hay buena fe en América, ya sea entre los hombres o entre las naciones —se lamentaba cierta vez Bolívar—. Los tratados son papeles, las Constituciones libros, las elecciones batallas, la libertad anarquía y la vida un tormento. Lo único que se puede hacer en América es emigrar.

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.

I never voted for a president until I felt Obama had a dream and might pull it off, and that was the first time I ever voted for a president.

Normally when people say they haven't decided, they're being polite but they're definitely not voting for you. I think it's different this time. People are thinking hard about the issues.

Well, I know I worked for Governor Rockefeller the last time he ran for his fourth term, and I obviously ran against Governor Cuomo the time he ran for his fourth term.