Quotes About Elections

People have to take socialism and anyone running on a socialist platform incredibly seriously.

People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.

When there is a parliamentarian crisis, the only solution in a democracy is early elections.

Every election, a presidential candidate inevitably proposes a new cabinet agency. The idea is that this is the only way to solve a particular problem. Just create more government.

Everybody runs for political office knocking somebody, and very few run on 'This is what I stand for. This is what I believe will solve these problems.'

I am happy in Bollywood, but I am contesting elections to solve problems of people, as they have trust in me.

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

The people in one district can choose not to reelect their member of Congress, but that will not change the composition of the government as a whole. You have to change the system and make it possible for the people's will to be heard.

When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.

The dirty secret of the neoliberal era is that these ideas were never defeated in a great battle of ideas, nor were they voted down in elections. They were shocked out of the way at key political junctures.

The widespread abuse...is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system - whether political , religious or economic - that is rejected by large numbers of the people they are ruling...an indicator of a regime that is engaged in a deeply anti-democratic project, even if that regime happens to have come to power through elections.

In crucial states such as Iowa, Ohio, and Wisconsin, Clinton drew 15 to 20 percent fewer Democratic voters than Barack Obama had in 2012.

That he won at all is the result of an electoral college system originally designed to protect the power of slave owners.

Hillary Clinton is a non-starter and lacks the integrity to lead this nation, but Trump has a long way to go to earn the support of many - me included.

We're never gonna have a nice lady run for president.

I would love to be a mentor to many people who want to go into the political arena, teach them the art of winning elections.

Our message to the Russians is stay out of the U.S. elections.

If we continue to dump more Mexican immigrants on the country, we'll get to the point that we'll never have another Republican president.

To get elected in Mexico today, you have to compete like any democracy, and you don't do that by being manipulated.

Michigan is a state we should have won in 2016, and we didn't, and I want to understand why.

Michigan will be Democratic in some years and Republican in some years. I don't think we'll ever make the mistake like we did in 2016 and not turn out again.

Midwest elections have consequences.

Generally, the real question in a midterm year is whether the damage for the ruling party will be severe or mild.

I think it is wrong to spend $4 or $5 million in a campaign.