Quotes About Election

#1. In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politicians' fingerprints on the murder weapon.

Thomas Sowell

#2. People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.

Sarah Palin

#3. The time to be political is not when you have parties and carnivals, it's kind of a show, the election. It affects something but not that much. And focusing all the attention on it is I think a mistake.

Noam Chomsky

#4. The Labour Party in 2011 was in an exceptionally bad place. We'd been hammered in an election. We didn't see the scale of it coming.

Johann Lamont

#5. There is no question that I would be the better president. But as for the campaign, are Americans ready for a general election in which both major party candidates are ADD? Quite frankly, it could provide an opening for a third party candidate, maybe someone backed by the evil Koch brothers.

Joe Biden

#6. In every election homophobia has been part of the landscape and in every campaign I've been able to become connected enough to my constituents that they know who I am and that I can be elected on my merits.

Kathleen Wynne

#7. For you I am neither the PM or CM. Our bond is a bond of affection and I am your sevak.

Narendra Modi

#8. If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

Mark Twain

#9. It is now clear that faith is a singular pledge of paternal love, treasured up for the sons whom he has adopted.

John Calvin

#10. In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.

Francois Hollande

#11. I think that is also something he [Barack Obama], in the beginning of his presidency, he couldn't really explore and couldn't show. He had to be almost a one-dimensional, stoic leader during that first election.

Jordan Peele

#12. In other words, Foxx represented what Sarah Palin (speaking at a campaign fundraiser in Greensboro three weeks before the election) called "the real America," by which she did not mean fallow farms and disability checks and crack.

George Packer

#13. If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

Barack Obama

#14. The Constitution never even mentions political parties, let alone the Republican and Democratic parties, yet all the election laws help to protect them from competition.

Bob Barr

#15. I'm Nancy Pelosi, but my grandchildren call me Mimi. For me, politics is an extension of my role as a mother and a grandmother. For the Democratic women of the House, our work is not about the next election, but rather the next generation.

Nancy Pelosi

#16. This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.

Barack Obama

#17. If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum.

Tony Blair

#18. By definition, the person who learns enough to become the nominee is almost certainly the best person for the general election.

Newt Gingrich

#19. If the primary ends up being a hard hitting, bloody battle, well so be it. Let's get ready for the general election

Steve Lonegan

#20. When it came to the 2000 election, 84 percent of Ivy League faculty voted for Al Gore, 6 percent for Ralph Nader and 9 percent for George Bush. In the general electorate, the vote was split at 48 percent for Gore and Bush, and 3 percent for Nader.

Walter E. Williams

#21. It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year.

Ted Cruz

#22. I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#23. perhaps we are not as free as we might think in the first place. Given your background, your friends, your family, the books you read, and the movies you watch, how surprising is your vote in a federal election?

Tyler Cowen

#24. I think George Bush is going to win in a walk. I really believe I'm hearing from the Lord it's going to be like a blowout election in 2004.

Pat Robertson

#25. The Republicans' plan is that if they can't buy the 2012 election they will steal it.

Elizabeth Drew

#26. It's not just other countries in Europe having a say over what we do. It's unelected bureaucrats in Brussels on sort of six-figure, huge salaries telling us how we run our country despite having never stood for an election themselves.

David Cameron

#27. Election officials say that in 2016, it may be possible to vote for the president on your smartphone. Can you imagine that? With one swipe you can choose a president and at the same time tell him or her where you want to hook up.

Conan O'Brien

#28. Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

Herbert Marcuse

#29. We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.

P. J. O'Rourke

#30. Democracy is not just an election, it is our daily life.

Tsai Ing-wen

#31. I think Super Tuesday is the most important day of this entire primary election. It is the most delegates awarded in a single night will be awarded on Super Tuesday.

Ted Cruz

#32. Whatever he does in office, no man can live up to the high expectations of the world, but we have been changed by his election. Obama's inauguration is a historic global achievement, a major milestone in the journey of a powerful nation.

Des Browne

#33. Remember, the first presidential candidate to reject public financing for both the primary and general election was ... Barack Obama, in 2008. He did it, in spite of a flat pledge to the contrary, because his campaign saw that it could vastly outspend John McCain.

Jeff Greenfield

#34. I don't think we'll win every election.

Lee Scott

#35. Citizens are starting not to excuse political candidates who have web sites that do nothing but throw virtual confetti.

David Weinberger

#36. "Undecided," while running for re-election to state Senate in 1998, in response to an Outlines questionnaire asking, "Do you favor legalizing same-sex marriage?"

Barack Obama

#37. The country is stronger than the result of any one election. But we shouldn't forget that these are just ordinary people. I wish Americans would look at them level, not down or up - just level. It doesn't take some special dimension to be president.

Jack Germond

#38. If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.

Ken Livingstone

#39. A crime is a crime irrespective of the birth marks of the criminal.

Narendra Modi

#40. Let us search ourselves this morning and make our calling and election sure, so that the coming of the Lord may cause no dark forebodings in our mind.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#41. A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet.

Theodore Roosevelt

#42. My principles, and those always received by the republicans, do not admit to removing any person from office merely for a difference of political opinion. Malversations in office, and the exerting of official influence to control the freedom of election are good causes for removal.

Thomas Jefferson

#43. What we need is some people to stand up with the courage of their convictions, to do what they promised when they ran for election, and fight to stop Obamacare.

Jim DeMint

#44. The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.

Thomas Paine

#45. Whatever else the election of Barack Obama represented - some have called it redemption, others have called it the triumph of style over substance - it was the ultimate victory for people who believe that black political gains are of utmost importance to black progress in America.

Jason L. Riley

#46. I found myself immediately attracted to Pope John Paul II when, upon his election to the Papacy, his published speeches invariably called attention to the need for recognizing the dignity of the human being as a child of God.

Robert H. Schuller

#47. The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

Billy Sunday

#48. Don't vote, it only encourages them.

Billy Connolly

#49. The first election I remember was Dewey Truman in '48. I was, I guess, seven years old.

George Will

#50. We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.

Joshua A. Norton

#51. Politics and sports are the same thing in some ways. I like sports; I don't like the sports aspect of politics. The conventions are basically the playoffs, and the election's the Super Bowl. To me, it doesn't feel important.

Hari Kondabolu

#52. Political impotence is finished. Today is the beginning of the orgasm. All the people, I promise you, will feel the orgasm of next year's presidential election.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#53. An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which company and which product shall be the leader today and which shall lead tomorrow.

Bruce Barton

#54. I voted against Gerald Nabarro in my first general election, but my defiance made no difference. If you had put a Conservative rosette on a mustachioed hamster, it would have been elected.

Jeremy Paxman

#55. Last summer I picked up a yellow scrap of newspaper and read of a Biloxi election in 1948, and in it I caught the smell of history more pungently than from the metal marker telling of the French and Spanish two hundred years ago and the Yankees one hundred years ago. 1948. What a faroff time.

Walker Percy

#56. Congress is a wishy-washy, whiney bunch of people who can't see past the next election.

Michael Anderle

#57. This is very interesting because the Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there's people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you.

Rick Mercer

#58. The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.

Edmund Burke

#59. The big story today, Barack Obama was accused of insulting Sarah Palin when he criticized Republican policies by saying, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. Political experts say that if Obama keeps insulting Palin, he could lose the election and win a job at MSNBC.

Conan O'Brien

#60. For many celebrities, securing the publics votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy.

Michael Medved

#61. During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.

Ike Skelton

#62. I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.

Edmund Burke

#63. It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

Malcolm Wallop

#64. For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts; and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.

Lucy Powell

#65. The Labour Party can go into the next election united behind the most radical manifesto on which we have ever campaigned.

Roy Hattersley

#66. Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

Vincent Bugliosi

#67. Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color.

Alveda King

#68. How about this John Kerry controversy? So he's out there in California, tells some kind of joke and it backfires. He's saying he botched the joke ... This guy can lose elections he's not even in.

David Letterman

#69. The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.

Gerald R. Ford

#70. In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

P. J. O'Rourke

#71. Soon after George W. Bush took over the White House after losing the "popular vote" - which in other countries is called the "election" -

Carl Safina

#72. There is a substantial correlation between an election year and how the market finishes.

Louis Navellier

#73. Our party supports decriminalisation of cannabis. It's not a priority for this election campaign but it has been a long-standing policy of ours.

Metiria Turei

#74. Spend hundreds of millions; talk endlessly about issues; present 12-point plans for education, the economy, and the environment. But in the end, the election of our next president can turn on a gaffe.

Jack Germond

#75. We've given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and how we live our life.

Ann Romney

#76. It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.

Frank Carlucci

#77. Whether it's before the election or after the election, the principle is the American people are choosing their next president and their next president should pick this Supreme Court nominee.

Mitch McConnell

#78. We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?

Phylicia Rashad

#79. The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in.

Warren Christopher

#80. By the same token, I think news has more and more of a pro bono aspect to all the networks. When we do our election coverages throughout this coming year, it's not a money-maker for us. It is more of a public service situation.

Leslie Moonves

#81. Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.

George Clooney

#82. One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

Imran Khan

#83. If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner.

Lindsey Nelson

#84. I would do away with Education, Commerce, and let's see - the third one I can't. I can't. Oops.

Rick Perry

#85. I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to overlook the needs of average Americans in the run-up to the 2012 election.

Roseanne Barr

#86. [O]nce demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn't much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on the candidate's mood.

George Packer

#87. You cannot win an election without a fight.

Tony Abbott

#88. The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party.

Chen Shui-bian

#89. The president has a big stick.

Joe Biden

#90. Where you stand should not depend on where you sit.

Jane Bryant Quinn

#91. Dark money has turned our elections into auctions

Fred DuVal

#92. Narendra Modi is a bubble. After elevation in his party, his first test was the Karnataka election. He failed miserably in that.

Jitin Prasada

#93. I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man.

Henry Miller

#94. In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!

Tony Campolo

#95. While I do not believe Ford was wrong to pardon Nixon, the timing of the pardon was premature and may have cost Ford the margin of victory in the 1976 election.

Richard Ben-Veniste

#96. We talk about God as though he was like a somebody. We ask him to bless our nation, or save our Queen, or give us a fine day for the picnic. And we actually expect him to be on our side in an election or war even though our opponents are also God's children.

Karen Armstrong

#97. Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

Margaret Thatcher

#98. The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country ... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.

Salman Khurshid

#99. A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

Bill Vaughan

#100. There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.

P. J. O'Rourke