Quotes About Elections

Given recent events in Hong Kong, it'd be political suicide for the KMT (Nationalist Party) in next month's elections for Ma to even be in the same room with Xi right now, let alone meet Xi one-on-one," says Sean King, senior vice president with consulting firm Park Strategies in New York and Taipei.

El 14 de septiembre de 1930 tuvieron lugar las elecciones al Reichstag en las que los nazis pasaron meteóricamente de ser un partido ridículo y escindido a ocupar la segunda posición, de doce mandatos a ciento siete.

Dear Mr. Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan, as long as HDP remains and our voters remain on this land, we will not let you become president, we will not let you become president, we will not let you become president. (His last party meeting speech before 2015 general elections that only lasted 3 minute 36 seconds)

PM says they want to win the elections for the municipalities of Diyarbakir, Van and Sirnak. In case, we (BDP) want New York, Paris and Rome but you can't have them all. (On the quote from PM Tayyip Erdogan for the ruling party AKP wanting to win the local elections for 3 cities which the BDP won with 60% average on last elections)

Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.

The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice are immediate and discernible.

Every time Donald Trump thinks things are not going in his direction, he claims whatever it is, is rigged against him.

I'm not sure that Enrique Pena expected Donald Trump to take him up on his offer to come to Mexico and meet with him in the short period of time that there is between now and the elections.

There has never been a more important time to vote for the Green Party!

100 political parties put together can never defeat the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, come 2015 presidential election.

Never vote for a candidate whose campaign promises include 'doing more for children.

For the next few weeks there will be no political discussions in America: we have entered the Season of Platitudes—an election campaign. All issues, principles and definitions vanish during an election campaign. They dissolve into a fog of rubber terms that can mean anything to anyone—while the candidates compete for how to be misunderstood-in the greatest number of ways by the greatest number of people.

Indeed, it's not a stretch to say that most voters no longer choose their representatives; instead, representatives choose their voters.

Jesus Christ would not vote for Barack Obama!" Keyes would proclaim, deliberately mispronouncing my name every time. I beat him by more than forty points—the biggest margin for a Senate race in the state's history.

Voting is the best revenge. 2012

forty-two presidents.

how the incrementalism and decorum, the endless positioning for the next election, and the groupthink of cable news panels all conspired to chip away at your best instincts and wear down your independence, until whatever you once believed was utterly lost.

It went fine for us," I said. "But based on what I just saw, we better win this thing or the country is screwed.

elections alone don't produce a functioning democracy;

We won't be doing anything to protect the environment," Plouffe had barked when questioned by a group of advocates, "if we lose Ohio and Pennsylvania!" —

In some ways the soviets simplified who the enemy was", Havel said, "Today autocrats are more sophisticated, they stand for election while slowly undermining institutions that make democracy possible. They champion free markets while engaging with the same corruption cronyism and exploitation that existed in the past.

Still, it wasn't until February 10, 2011, the day before Hosni Mubarak stepped down in Egypt, that this absurd theory really got traction. During a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, Trump hinted that he might run for president, asserting that "our current president came out of nowhere….The people that went to school with him, they never saw him, they don't know who he is. It's crazy.

Today, autocrats are more sophisticated. They stand for election while slowly undermining the institutions that make democracy possible. They champion free markets while engaging in the same corruption, cronyism, and exploitation as existed in the past.

How'd it go?" he asked. I thought for a moment. "It went fine for us," I said. "But based on what I just saw, we better win this thing or the country is screwed.