Top 83 Quotes About Election Day
#1. I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time.
Judy Woodruff
#2. Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.
George Soros
#3. The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day.
Heather Wilson
#4. I couldn't help but think about Election Day one year before and everything that had happened since. Last Election Day, not only had the country reelected the first president who had stood for marriage equality, but we'd also won ballot fights on marriage in four
Marc Solomon
#5. The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.
Patrick Murphy
#6. In my world - advertising - the Super Bowl is judgment day. If politicians have Election Day and Hollywood has the Oscars, advertising has the Super Bowl.
Jerry Della Femina
#7. What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!
Henry David Thoreau
#9. I think the voters believe that when you become president of the United States, you have a higher obligation and a higher standard than anybody in the world, ... And if you violate that standard, they're going to remember it on election day.
Bob Dole
#10. The horrific cases in Ferguson, in Staten Island with the death of Eric Garner, and all across the country serve as stark reminders that we must have a say in who polices us, and how that policing is done. We must, we must, let our voices be heard on Election Day.
Al Sharpton
#11. Election Day now has become the last day to vote.
Judy Woodruff
#12. I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#13. Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day.
Lawrence Block
#14. Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?
Robert Breault
#15. Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
H.L. Mencken
#16. On Election Day, Ralph Nader will appear on the presidential ballot in only 45 states. Yeah, Nader said, this is really disappointing, I wanted to embarrass myself in all 50 states. That was the plan.
Conan O'Brien
#17. Tomorrow is Election Day. That's the day we Americans wake up, consider our options, and then remember we didn't register to vote.
Conan O'Brien
#18. On this November 8, 2016, Election Day, may you have "Love & Kindness" in your heart when you cast your ballot. Do what is right for America!" Captain Hank Bracker
Hank Bracker
#19. Congress will be tempted to wipe their hands of this, go to the Election Day and say 'we've done our part' and that's where groups like ours, Concerned Veterans for America, veterans across the country have to keep the heat on them to say this is just the start. VA is not fixed.
Pete Hegseth
#20. I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.
Will Rogers
#21. My start in politics was watching my parents go to the polls on election day. It reminded me that being an active, engaged citizen and voter is critical to the success of our democracy.
Josh Earnest
#22. Bars are closed on Election Day so people won't vote under the influence. Why are libraries closed?
Arthur D. Hlavaty
#23. Thank heaven Election Day is over. No more campaign ads, no more mud-slinging, no more candidates pretending they're straight. It's over!
Craig Ferguson
#24. Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls.
William J. Clinton
#25. Election Day 2010 saw the culmination of years of aggravation and resentment toward a federal government that became disconnected and disdainful of the values and priorities of Americans.
George Allen
#26. If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner.
Lindsey Nelson
#27. This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.
Danny Glover
#28. It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
Brad Henry
#29. Ohioans know that he inherited a mess and created a surplus. So, on election day, John [Kasich] will prevail in Ohio.
Tom Ridge
#30. It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.
Moby
#31. As the inevitable discussion proceeds in the months ahead, this memo should provide both perspective and a reality check. President Bush's approval numbers will again fall back to more realistic levels fairly quickly. All were quite successful on Election Day.
Matthew Dowd
#32. We the people say it loud and clear every Election Day, in high-crime periods as well as peaceful stretches - More of our population needs to be behind bars.
Thomas Frank
#33. Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town that each individual vote really does matter, and several local races have been decided by as many votes as you can count on one hand.
Susan Orlean
#34. Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!
Tom Peters
#35. I always stand out by the voting lines on Election Day, and I can't tell you how many people say, 'I've never voted for a Democrat in my life, but I'm splitting my ticket for you.' They're more engaged and thoughtful than we give them credit for.
Wendy Davis
#36. Yesterday was Election Day. If we have any Democrats in the audience, I'm sorry but you're going to have to give up your seats.
David Letterman
#37. There is only one opinion poll that I am interested in and that is the one that will take place on election day.
Michael Howard
#38. Tomorrow is Election Day. It's what they call the midterm elections, and you can cut the indifference with a knife. It's the day Americans leave work early and pretend to vote.
David Letterman
#39. You call my candidate a horse thief, and I call yours a lunatic, and we both of us know it's just till election day. It's an American custom, like eating corn on the cob. And, afterwards, we settle down quite peaceably and agree we've got a pretty good country - until next election.
Stephen Vincent Benet
#40. A lot can happen in a week - just read any Bible, .. On the seventh day, Election Day, unlike the Bible, we can't rest.
Michael Bloomberg
#41. We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.
Kenneth Blackwell
#42. President Obama spent Election Day away from any press coverage, attending closed-door meetings inside the White House. But on the bright side, it is nice to see some doors actually closed at the White House. It's a whole new Secret Service security thing.
Jimmy Fallon
#43. If Congress can move President's Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther King's Birthday celebration for the convenience of shoppers, shouldn't they at least consider moving Election Day for the convenience of voters?
Andrew Young
#44. Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election Day, they'll be up at five in the morning.
Michael Moore
#45. Income tax filing and payment day should be moved from April 15th to November 1st so it can be close to election day. People ought to have their tax bills fresh in mind as they go to vote.
Steven G. Calabresi
#46. Where everyman is participator in the government of affairs, not merely at an election one day in the year but everyday, he will let the heart be torn out of his body sooner than his power be wrested from him by a Caesar or a Bonaparte.
Thomas Jefferson
#47. We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly willingness to compromise but we're not going back on the fundamental things we're running on in this campaign.
Stephen Harper
#48. It (a baseball box score) doesn't tell how big you are, what church you attend, what color you are, or how your father voted in the last election. It just tells what kind of baseball player you were on that particular day.
Branch Rickey
#49. The 1994 elections that brought Newt Gingrich to power in the House decisively shaped the remaining years of Bill Clinton's presidency, pushing him further to the right and bringing out his latent tendency to govern every day as if an election were being held the next.
Noah Feldman
#50. I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.
Benjamin Harrison
#51. I remember the day after the general election when Harold Wilson had lost, I remember quite clearly cycling from my house in Hutton along Long Ridings and feeling what a relief to live in a country with a Tory government again.
Philip Hammond
#52. My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.
Evan Bayh
#53. After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.
Jesse Ventura
#54. Every three weeks before an election the TV ads expressing great concern about our trade policy and the loss of jobs to China and other low-wage countries. And then it's forgotten about the day after the election.
Bernie Sanders
#55. Remember, at the end of the day [election] campaigns are always about the candidates.
Chris Christie
#56. In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now we inaugurate a new government on a day that transcends any one individual or any one party.
Matt Blunt
#57. So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.
Corrine Brown
#58. I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you?
Claire McCaskill
#59. I said, the pope is saying bad things about me the day before the election? And then I gathered myself, and I realized that it had to do with illegal immigration, that he was opposed to my measures, which is basically creating a border.
Donald Trump
#60. As a whole, the election process before the election and on the day of election was successful, and I think Azerbaijan had normal and democratic elections,
Ilham Aliyev
#61. We will see at the end of the day. I don't like to speculate. Our goal in this election is to do better than in the last one.
Helen Zille
#62. The Internet is a cauldron of anger every day, every year, election year or not, with unemployment at 10 percent or at two percent. It isn't exactly a good index of what's happening.
Charles Krauthammer
#63. If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
James Bovard
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. I do believe life begins at conception. The very first time I ran for election, I took out an editorial in the local newspaper and said 'look I am a democrat. (But) on this issue, because I see it as a human rights issue, if you wanted me to vote to promote that I wouldn't be able to do that.
Stockwell Day
#70. This is our last chance to make a difference. If you're like me, you don't want to have to ask yourself on the day after the election, what else could I have done?
Brad Pitt
#71. Paul does not abandon the collective framework, but rather redefines it around Jesus. Paul thus, like other Jewish writers of his day, understands "election" to be about God's people as a people.
A. Chadwick Thornhill
#72. For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.
Jesse Jackson
#73. In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and killed half a dozen Hamas militants. Well, that was followed by a missile exchange for a couple of weeks in both directions.
Noam Chomsky
#74. I believe in public funding of elections, absolutely. But this system iscurrently very antiquated and no longer applies to modern day politics.
Bernie Sanders
#75. Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.
Jon Meacham
#76. It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.
Barack Obama
#77. Maintain your rage and enthusiasm for the campaign for the election now to be held and until polling day.
Gough Whitlam
#78. People will have their excitements, and a good rousing persecution used to stir things like the burning of Chicago or a Presidential election in our day.
E.P. Roe
#79. In life, it is never the big battle, the big moment, the big speech, the big election. That does not change things. What changes things is every day, getting up and rendering small acts of service and love beyond that what's expected of you or required of you.
Cory Booker
#80. Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spend their political capital wisely, taking advantage of events without overreaching.
Ron Fournier
#81. I think we may be seeing the beginnings of a resurgence of civic-mindedness in this country. Hopefully the younger generations, which came out in record numbers during the last presidential election, will pass their enthusiasm on to their children.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#82. The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).
David Mamet
#83. I was watching Discovery Channel the other day, and you know that they have come up with a new theory about how dinosaurs was wiped out? It was a midturn election ...
Jay Leno
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