Quotes About Elections

One man spat out at Wilkes, "I would rather vote for the Devil than for you," to which Wilkes replied, "And if your friend is not standing?

I think it is dangerous to confuse the idea of democracy with elections. Just because you have elections doesn't mean you're a democratic country. They're a very vitally important part of a democracy. But there are other things that ought to function as checks and balances. If elections are the only thing that matter, then people are going to resort to anything to win that election.

Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure, or criminally motivated, or mad.

Deeply idealistic — a moral people, Adams held, would elect moral leaders — he believed virtue the soul of democracy. To have a villainous ruler imposed on you was a misfortune. To elect him yourself was a disgrace.

De todos los tópicos acerca de la política, existe uno que se defiende con más fuerza que el resto: el dinero compra elecciones.

Taken all together, 1952 is recalled as one of the bitterest campaigns of the twentieth century, and the one that featured the most mudslinging.

But the people didn't elect buffoons to Washington. Well—hardly ever.

I'm going to be honest, I would love for Flava Flav to be president. It would bring a lot of excitement to the country.

Free speech, too, is under relentless assault where it matters most—around elections—and it is being sanctified where it matters least, around strippers' poles and on terrorist Web sites.

I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way.

He showed people the pairs of photographs from each contest with no information about political party, and he asked them to pick which person seemed more competent. He found that the candidate that people judged more competent was the one who actually won the race about two-thirds of the time.

If you find yourself in a Whole Foods store, there's an 89 percent chance that the county surrounding you voted for Barack Obama. If you want to find Republicans, go to a county that contains a Cracker Barrel restaurant (62 percent of these counties went for McCain).

Boris Nicolaïevitch, la démocratie, c'est bien, mais sans élections, c'est plus sûr »

We've had Town Hall meetings, we've witnessed election after election, in which the American people have taken a position on the President's health care bill. And the bottom line is the people don't like this bill. They don't want it.

Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.

Self-government will not work unless the citizens bear the responsibility to vote in such a way that continues their freedoms and their ability to have free elections, that continues their economic prosperity. They have to vote in a way that does not trade the future for the present. This

It was an odious process whereby one wined and dined one's constituents and gave speeches. It was all many degrees more shameless than anything we complain of today, not least because one was quite literally expected to pay each elector two guineas as a bribe.

Don't you understand? We're fighting an election here and the first rule is you can say anything you like, then deny you said it, then say it again.

Trump's victory was not an isolated event but part of a worldwide trend toward populism.

Now, twenty years later, Candice Bergen, who played Murphy Brown, admitted Quayle was right – but at the time, Quayle was running for re-election, and so he had to be wrong.

typical of a Democratic constituency: the system only works if we win.

When Americans vote for a particular candidate, they vote for the candidate who reminds them of the kind of person they would have eaten lunch with.

Violence defines humanity and determines headlines and elections and borders, the whole world boiled down to who hits whom harder.

A violência é o que define a humanidade, é ela que determina manchetes, decide eleições e estabelece fronteiras; o mundo inteiro se reduz à questão de quem bate em quem com mais força.