Top 100 Quotes About Election
#1. There was also a sense that if he [Obama] did not win in Iowa, that it was very unlikely that he would be able to come back and win the Democratic nomination and win the general election. It was sort of an all-or-nothing bet. The stakes were that high.
Josh Earnest
#2. Can we pray for the re-election of George Bush?
Sean Hannity
#3. Justices look solemn in their formal black robes, but every so often they like to have a little fun by taking on a strange case, or overturning a presidential election, that sort of thing.
Christopher Buckley
#5. Rick Perry was philosophical about (his election losses). He said, 'Last week was Iowa. Yesterday was New Hampshire. ' He said at least it's giving him a chance to learn the names of all the states.
Jay Leno
#6. I always believed that WikiLeaks as a concept would perform a global role, and to some degree it was clear that it was doing that as far back as 2007 when it changed the result of the Kenyan general election.
Julian Assange
#7. That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be dead scared. And I won my bet big-time. The gullible fools!
Lee Kuan Yew
#8. The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'
George Ayittey
#9. Mexico is divided over the results of its presidential election. The U.S.had offered to send in a task force to help determine the outcome, but unfortunately the Supreme Court is currently not in session.
Allan Ray
#10. Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration.
Jamie Johnson
#11. Politicians.Their first thoughts are always with the loved ones of the British serviceman tragically killed in action.
And whether they'll vote New Labour at the next election.
There's no need to be cynical, Susan.
Why not?
You've got me there.
William Donaldson
#12. But all should know that the people's participation in the elections will take the country forward ... an election full of excitement will be a major blow to the enemy.
Ali Khamenei
#13. With so much at stake in this election, both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan should 'go rogue.'
Sarah Palin
#14. If we were to have a presidential election in Europe it would be an event that would spark a huge interest in people from Lisbon to Helsinki, just like national elections. And it would create a completely different political setting in Europe.
Wolfgang Schauble
#15. 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
#16. President Obama announced his re-election campaign, though it's not really a surprise. He did all the things that make it official: He filed the paperwork, redesigned his website, and printed another fake birth certificate.
Craig Ferguson
#17. I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.
Will Rogers
#18. After President Obama's election, efforts at othering Obama quickly became about smearing his non-partisan allies and ambassadors.
Christine Pelosi
#19. Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out Democrats in the 2012 election.
Juan Williams
#20. [After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!
Nancy Astor
#21. The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.
Will Rogers
#22. I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote - not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know?
Jello Biafra
#23. You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#24. Since the election of Shinzo Abe as the new Japanese prime minister, by reputation a fervent nationalist, relations between Japan and China have paradoxically improved a little.
Martin Jacques
#25. Texas has a lot of electrical votes. [During an election campaign, after George Bush stated that Texas was important to the election]
Yogi Berra
#26. The reality of this election is that we can choose between a disappointing Democrat and the end of the world.
Wil Wheaton
#27. It was a long, difficult summer of 2004. That was a leap year, so several things happened - the Olympics and presidential election. And right in the middle of the election campaign - and I don't think this was an accident - the 9/11 Commission delivers its report.
Michael Hayden
#28. Congress was just a gray repository that got its OS replaced with each election.
Joshua Cohen
#29. Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.
Virginia Foxx
#30. Nobody is going to care who won or lost any election when the earth is uninhabitable.
Susan Cain
#31. There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Henry Louis Gates
#33. Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without going on TV, but you can win a local election simply by organizing your community. NationBuilder levels the playing field.
Joe Green
#34. A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
James Freeman Clarke
#35. 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
#36. The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.'
Dennis Prager
#37. I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.
Ed Rollins
#38. The usual test under the Federal Election Campaign Act for whether something counts as a campaign expenditure is whether the obligation would have existed but for the campaign. If so, it is not a campaign expenditure.
Bradley A. Smith
#39. Tony Blair will be remembered as a great friend to Wales because it was his landslide election victory in 1997 that led to devolution.
Rhodri Morgan
#40. Ma Ying-jeou tends to use cross-strait policy as an election tool and a political tool, too, and my position is that we don't use that as a political tool because that is an issue that is critical and essential to the interests of the Taiwanese people.
Tsai Ing-wen
#41. I can remember the morning after President Nixon won re-election in 1972. His chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, called a Cabinet meeting and told the members: 'You are all a bunch of burned-out volcanoes;' and asked for their resignations.
Helen Thomas
#42. 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
#43. We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.
Will Rogers
#44. The winner of this election will be like same donkey, new saddle.
Malalai Joya
#45. We've had Town Hall meetings, we've witnessed election after election, in which the American people have taken a position on the President's health care bill. And the bottom line is the people don't like this bill. They don't want it.
Eric Cantor
#46. I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would move on Washington; they would not wait for an election ... It adds up to a preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the United States!
George W. Malone
#47. As if this whole thing isn't confusing enough, election officials announced this week that the alphabet on the ballot will begin with the letter R, then W, then Q. You know, even Sesame Street is laughing at California now.
Jay Leno
#48. I also want to draw attention to the responsibilities that people have to live up to their election promises and to live up to the votes that were cast by the people of Wales, in the General Election, in the expectation that we would deliver this promise.
Ron Davies
#49. Given that Mr. Kerry is clearly exaggerating what happened to minority voters in the 2000 election in Florida, maybe we should wait for him to provide evidence of what he is alleging in 2004.
John Fund
#50. Maybe I should have gone into politics. If you were a political activist, election season brought moments of intensity, whichever side you were on, and meanwhile here I was inarguably withering away,
Michel Houellebecq
#51. This is America. We don't call an election before we know who won. That, after all, is the job of the Supreme Court.
Bill Maher
#52. Across the nation, the election protection movement attracts ordinary citizens who educate their neighbors about their voting systems and the private companies that built and run them.
Mimi Kennedy
#53. But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.
James McGreevey
#54. Being political doesn't only or principally mean caring what party wins the next election; to be political is to care about the happiness of strangers.
Alain De Botton
#55. People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
Otto Von Bismarck
#56. You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns.
Stephen Harper
#57. Ron Paul is in favor of letting states legalize marijuana, prostitution, and cocaine. So even if he doesn't win, that's going to be one heck of an election night party.
Jay Leno
#58. I will never contest election in Nigeria. Whenever my husband retires, I will go back home with him.
Patience Jonathan
#59. It is not because a part of the government is elective, that makes it less a despotism, if the persons so elected possess afterwards, as a parliament, unlimited powers. Election, in this case, becomes separated from representation, and the candidates are candidates for despotism.
Thomas Paine
#60. This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.
Pope Francis
#61. The election of a Latin American pope should happen sometime in the next hundred years."20
Marco Politi
#62. A lot of people want me to run for things, for a lot of high offices. The polls always show that I win any election that I'm in. But I don't have any real interest in running for office. I'm more interested in supporting people.
Donald Trump
#63. The people the Republicans should reach out to are the white votes, the white voters who didn't vote in the last election. The propagandists are leading us down the wrong path.
Phyllis Schlafly
#64. We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.
Kate Clinton
#65. In the very next election, the American people elected 63 new Republicans to the House of Representatives - the largest sweep of Congress for any party since 1948. Even liberal Massachusetts elected a Republican senator solely because of his vow to vote against Obamacare.
Ann Coulter
#66. 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
#67. US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed.
Roseanne Barr
#68. You know what? I think the American people are a little pissed, and I think they're pissed at both parties - I think they're really pissed at both parties - and it will be reflected during election time ...
Whoopi Goldberg
#70. I'll tell you the truth, even in an election year, and that's what people are ready for.
Tom Cotton
#71. As I get close to my election, I want to spend more time in my district and focus on my reelection.
Henry Cuellar
#72. When I was in Grade 9, there was an election for high school president, and one of the candidates told us that if we elected him, he would abolish homework. He promised this to the entire student body from the stage in the school gymnasium.
Martin O'Malley
#73. A woman has the right to run for election whether she's male or female!
Muammar Al-Gaddafi
#74. The general election's taking place today in Iraq, so I guess that means we're one step closer to being there for another 10 years.
David Letterman
#75. It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election.
Bob Kerrey
#76. Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.
Birch Bayh
#77. No one knows, and few conceive, the agony of mind that I have suffered from the time that I was made by circumstances, and not by my volition, a candidate for the Presidency till I was dismissed from that station by the failure of my election.
John Quincy Adams
#78. The argument that John F. Kennedy was a closet peacenik, ready to give up on what the Vietnamese call the 'American War' upon re-election, received its most farcical treatment in Oliver Stone's 'JFK.'
Rick Perlstein
#79. A historic investment in jobs, debt-free college, profit sharing, making those at the top pay their fair share, putting families first in a modern economy and a democracy where working people's voices are actually heard. That is what we are fighting for in this election.
Hillary Clinton
#80. I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.
Joe Lieberman
#81. A campaign is a disagreement, and disagreements divide. But an election is a decision, and decisions clear the way for harmony and peace. I mean to be president of all the people.
George H. W. Bush
#82. I do not know what the Democratic Party spent, in toto, on the 2004 election, but what they seem to have gotten for it is Barack Obama. Let us savor.
Peggy Noonan
#83. We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two years he did the biggest U-turn on policy of all time and started to go the wrong way. In the end, that cost us the next election.
Margaret Thatcher
#84. I never ever paid attention to any election.
Young Jeezy
#85. And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.
Kenneth Blackwell
#86. I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.
George H. W. Bush
#87. We need to do more than win an election or win the House or win the presidency, my friends: we need to make this beloved country of ours God's country once again.
Pat Buchanan
#88. What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!
Henry David Thoreau
#89. And I'm very proud of the 50,000 poll workers and election officials who delivered a free and fair election.
Kenneth Blackwell
#90. During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.
Emma Thompson
#92. I think Social Security should be bipartisan and it should transcend the next election, and you should get the best ideas of the Democrats and of the Republicans, and move forward with the best.
Jack Kingston
#93. One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.
Christopher Hitchens
#94. Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect.
Nina Easton
#95. In every election cycle that I can recall, there comes a moment - or a few - where charges of elitism and claims of commonness are wielded by presidential candidates like a sword and shield: 'Vote for me 'cause I'm one of you. It's the other guy who's out of touch.'
John Ridley
#96. We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.
Abraham Lincoln
#97. We will pave the way for a transformation and roll back the years of Thatcherism ... We will turn economic ruin into economic recovery, and above all pave the way for a General Election to elect a Labour Government.
Arthur Scargill
#98. The election is another element of ambiguity, .. and oil remains the crucial variable.
Hugh S. Johnson
#99. And we've given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and about how we live our life. And so, the election, again, will not be decided on that. It will be decided on who is gonna turn the economy around and how are jobs gonna come back to America.
Ann Romney
#100. Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
Adam Michnik
