Quotes About Elections

The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.

My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.

I was reading a lot of Thomas Jefferson at the time, and Jefferson said that every 20 years, if one party has stayed in power, it's your obligation as an American to vote the other party in.

You can track elections by who was playing that president on 'SNL' at that time. There's the theory that the more likable or charismatic impression would help get the president elected.

Gun sales have spiked every time Democrats win elections since 1980.

Crooked Hillary. Look, can you imagine another four years of the Clintons? Seriously. It's time to move on.

Never in America's history, though—however many sideburns Bowery barbers shaved or immigrants came ashore—had a losing presidential candidate argued that the whole nation had been swindled. When Abraham Lincoln won the presidency in 1860, his victory so outraged his opposition that an entire region of the country broke away. But in loss Stephen A. Douglas never claimed the election was "rigged.

The Geneva Accords called for elections in 1956 to reunite the country. But as it became apparent that Ho's Communist government had overwhelming popular support—Eisenhower later estimated that if the elections had been held in 1954, Ho would have captured 80 percent of the vote13—South Vietnam's president, Ngo Dinh Diem, reneged on the election. The United States, which had not been a party to the Geneva Accords, continued to back Diem

It was Bill Clinton who once pithily captured the contrast between the two parties when it came to selecting a presidential standard-bearer: Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans just fall in line.

You have to be willing to lose to win, and you're going to lose a lot"—a lot of votes, a lot of states. "No one gets elected president without being humiliated. How you deal with the humiliation is the key.

Romney spent the next twenty-four hours with McCain, traipsing with him from Manchester to Peterborough to Salem, agog at his inability to complete three sentences without dropping an f-bomb. (Romney employed prim substitutes for profanities: "blooming" for "fucking," "grunt" for "shit.")

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

Loughshane, according to Barrington Erle, was so small a place, that the expense would be very little. There were altogether no more than 307 registered electors. The inhabitants were so far removed from the world, and were so ignorant of the world's good things, that they knew nothing about bribery.

We had to do something [in Bush v. Gore ], because countries were laughing at us. France was laughing at us.

Over the previous 150 years, the border areas of Eupen and St Vith had moved back and forth between France, Prussia, Belgium and Germany, depending on the fortunes of war. In the Belgian elections of April 1939, more than 45 per cent of those in the mainly German-speaking 'eastern cantons' voted for the Heimattreue Front which wanted the area reincorporated into the Reich. But

I don't like the fact that running for public office has become a personality contest. - Adam Warner

People will think they're electing him to create more economic security. Then watch the Terror! God knows there's been enough indication that we can have tyranny in America-the fix of the southern share-croppers, the working conditions of the miners and garment-makers, and our keeping Mooney in prison so many years. But wait till Windrip shows us how to say it with machine guns!

I am one who believes that the people's views and values are represented by those who they elect in the legislative branch and not unelected federal judges appointed for life.

Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.

Foreign influence in domestic politics could be deadly to any democracy.

In China's first-ever national parliamentary elections, held in the winter of 1912–1913, Sun's Nationalist Party won a majority of seats.

We must not confuse cause with effect. God will heal; that's the effect. But the cause, the reason He will heal, is our repentance. Just electing Christians to office won't change the nation and heal its wounds. Instead, we'll repent and God will then allow godly men and women to be elected to office and He will use them in the healing process.

opponent, a decent moderate Republican, failed to even get one vote in hundreds of precincts, with the President gaining over 99% of the votes cast in thousands of other precincts

The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections.