Quotes About Elections

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.

We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

You now have the potential of 200 people deciding who ends up being elected president every single time.

Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

I always run ahead of the ticket [compared to Democratic presidential candidates]. But this time there were a lot of people that just voted party line, a lot more than usual.

The head of the AFL-CIO endorsed John Kerry, saying, 'The time has come to come behind one man, one leader, one candidate.' Then he said, 'And until we find that man, we will endorse John Kerry.'

In the midterm elections, a 102-year-old woman voted for the first time in a U.S. election. Unfortunately, she voted for Woodrow Wilson.

The African-American community has been let down by our politicians. They talk good around election time, and after the election, they say, see ya later, I'll see you in four years.

The highest and best use of our time that really matters over the next decade will be working to elect clean-energy candidates, especially in swing states and swing districts around the country.

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected

I've been outspent by my opponents every time I've run for U.S. Senate.

I am running because I love my country and Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama are ruining it. It is time to take our country back and I am asking you to join me in this fight.

Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that's a statement.

In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!

People have been unhappy for a long time about the two-party system.

For a long time, there has been lingering doubt among many Americans about integrity and fairness of elections. And it's not a new issue at all. If you look at polling data, it goes back decades.

I had to watch the Republican stuff which makes me feel even older than I am. By the time I get through the Democrats, I may be dead. I don't know how much older I can get.

We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging in mid-air. Reformers are such part-time pillars of society!

You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.

And the first thing we have to do is vote. Hey, no, not just once in a while. Not just when my husband or somebody you like is on the ballot. But in every election at every level, all of the time.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR--[Written about 1870.]

IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO YOU VOTE FOR, THE GOVERNMENT ALWAYS GETS IN. But