Quotes About Elections

When I was wrong about the 2002 elections, I dumped a garbage can on my head. When my John Kerry prediction didn't pan out in 2004, I smashed an egg on my face.

Cindy-Hyde Smith is hurting Mississippi - our progress and our reputation - and we simply must replace her.

You've seen it in the news - the radical left in our country, stinging from their 2016 election losses, has become increasingly desperate and unhinged. They want nothing more than to push their snowflake agenda on the entire nation, and our conservative Georgia values are under attack like never before.

I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.

I love Karl Rove. He elected Bush.

We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they're elected. Don't you?' 'Why?' 'It saves time.

I would like to hear the words public lands spoken in every election debate, with candidates holding both government and corporations accountable in their oversight and use. The fact of more than three hundred million visits to our national parks last year tells me I am not alone.

We should let people elect judges based on their experience and ability to do the job, not which party they pick.

In Kenya particularly, we have a lot to say - we're sort of obsessed with politics. We have three nightly news broadcasts, predominantly bad politics.

No matter how holy and righteous you are, you're still gonna have to kiss up to the billionaire for the check to get yourself elected to change the laws. Even if you're Bernie Sanders.

My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.

I am a pro-democracy activist asking for free elections in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is different to mainland China. We protect our freedoms. We ask for free elections to elect the leader of our city.

Carrie Lam is not the leader elected by people of Hong Kong.

No, I wouldn't vote Labour, dear, if you paid me. I vote Conservative.

One wiry little man sees from the form that I am living in South Africa and begins to question me about the situation in the run-up to the country's first all-race elections. 'Mandela will never win there, will he? Our

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

In the United States, private and corporate funding for elections has increased more than twentyfold since 1976, and it topped $2.5 billion during the 2012 Obama–Romney presidential race.49 Since 2005, the fossil-fuel industry alone has spent $1.7 billion in the United States on lobbying and campaign contributions, which explains their entrenched political support.

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

While the Marxists were promising a chicken in every pot, the New Dealers were winning elections by pushing for a house on every lot. In

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

There's nothing better than a rigged election, so long as you're the one rigging it.

He kept a watchful eye on politics through his reading of numerous newspapers and had aides keep him updated on the results of elections so that he could immediately send congratulatory letters to the winners. Knowing that those who lost might be back again, in that office or some other, he sent them letters too, thanking them for their service to their country.