Quotes About Elections

I believe that anyone who wants to stand in a national election should receive a course of psychotherapy. Completing the course should be a qualification for office. This wouldn't change the behaviour of psychopaths, but it might prevent some people who exercise power from imposing their own deep wounds on others.

It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.

The president is the one person who potentially could be the unifying figure in the country. And if the president or a presidential candidate basically writes off 40 states, then how in the world do the people in those 40 states feel like they have a stake in that person or that election?

'The New York Times' breathlessly writes about the left-of-center Americans Elect being a 'new third party,' but we already have a third party: the Libertarian Party.

When Churchill was running for office for the first time, he went door to door to ask for votes. He knocked on the door of an irritable man who, when Churchill introduced himself, said, "Vote for you? Why, I'd rather vote for the devil!" "I understand," answered Churchill. "But in case your friend is not running, may I count on your support?

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron'.

Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.

It's tough campaigning, kissing hands and shaking babies.

Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.

I have toured my constituency maximum number of times as a member of the Lok Sabha among the MPs from Madhya Pradesh.

In 1980, in 1984, millions of middle-class Democrats became Reagan Democrats, and more of them drifted toward the Republicans with Bush in 1988.

It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another very real problem whereby an election could be tilted towards a favored candidate.

I find it obvious that, in a first-past-the-post electoral system, we need to head towards the centre.

As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

Term limits mean that you don't trust the voters. 'Stop me before I vote again.'

Look well to the characters and qualifications of those you elect and raise to office and places of trust.

We deserve elections we can trust.

I thought of the courage it had taken for those young people in Tehran to go out into the streets holding those simple placards—"Where is my vote?"—with the openness and simplicity of a child, only to be razed down by bullets.

Richard Nixon won in forty-nine states by, for one thing, appealing to the inherent racism of the American people. Voters saw him—a Harris poll two months after the election showed this plainly—as the candidate who would put a stop to school busing and the encroachment of blacks and other minorities on white jobs

I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.

Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06.

I knew the President would run for reelection in 1984. Why not? Actors love sequels ... and returns.

If Americans simply choose to vote for the person who has a D or an R by their name, we will get what we deserve, which is what we have now.