Quotes About Political Elections

#1. When you think about a presidential candidate spending all of his or her time talking to that tiny, tiny fraction of us who have the capacity to fund political elections, it's obvious why the perspective of government is skewed relative to what most Americans care about.

Lawrence Lessig

#2. South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.

Catherine Helen Spence

#3. Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.

Will Rogers

#4. I think the age of the modern media campaign has created a new icon, the celebrity-in-chief. Political elections have become wars fought by candidates with opposing values.

Noah Hawley

#5. Political elections are not life and death.

Rita Mae Brown

#6. The average man is both better informed and less corruptible in the decisions he makes as a consumer than as a voter at political elections.

Ludwig Von Mises

#7. Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Gore Vidal

#8. The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

Paul Krugman

#9. Instead, as a consequence of racial gerrymandering, "elections nationwide have become more or less permanently structured to discourage politically adventuresome African American candidates who aspire to win political office in majority-white settings.

Jason L. Riley

#10. I mean what does a democracy depend on? A democracy depends on the individual voter making an intelligent and rational choice for what he regards as his enlightened self-interest, in any given circumstance.

Aldous Huxley

#11. They say the crazies come out at night. I say the crazies come out during election year: Elections have the power to turn once seemingly normal people into certified loonies.

Criss Jami

#12. When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

Thomas L. Friedman

#13. Our pledge is to hold elections in the year 1985. The form of elections has not yet been determined, but there is a group of representatives of the political parties in Nicaragua who have been traveling around the world studying various electoral alternatives.

Tomas Borge

#14. Individuals in Western states are sovereign over their own households; they enjoy consumer sovereignty through the market and political sovereignty through elections.

Roger Scruton

#15. In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler's increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.

Paul Lafargue

#16. Politics knows no currency.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#17. The elections are the greatest symbol of participation and political reform,

Mohammad Khatami

#18. Both groups [of pundits] were critics, and that is the heart of the problem. If you are a pundit, you seem so smart when you are telling the President what he did wrong ... This [is] mostly BS.

Jeffrey A. Miller

#19. Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable - the art of the next best

Otto Von Bismarck

#20. Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

Dick Morris

#21. Elections are about choices. They're about distinguishing one from the other. There is a political element to that, and of course it has to do with policy, as well.

David Gregory

#22. Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't do anything between elections.

Aleksandar Hemon

#23. During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming out of New Jersey at the time. The long hand that they had-and maybe still do-even had to do with presidential elections.

Martin Scorsese

#24. God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them.

George W. Bush

#25. I mean, what's the elections? You know, two guys, same background, wealth, political influence, went to the same elite university, joined the same secret society where you're trained to be a ruler - they both can run because they're financed by the same corporate institutions.

Noam Chomsky

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. The U.S. views Morocco as an important friend, and we applaud your political and economic reforms that culminated with the recent parliamentary elections that were widely reported to have been conducted in a fair and open manner.

Donald Evans

#29. 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

#30. Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.

Hank Johnson

#31. The protestors feel that the elections have been hijacked and the choices are between two corrupt parties - that when the power structure no longer represents the people, the vote is no longer a tool for change [Jehane Noujaim, "Tahrir Square, Cairo: Lost and Found in the Square"].

Catie Marron

#32. [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

#33. Democratic Development is a process of political struggle in which democrats work gains the upper hand in the society over non-democrats which directs aid at core political processes and institutions especially elections, political parties and politically oriented civil groups.

David Eddings

#34. What [Sarah] Palin so beguilingly represented ... was a form of female power that was utterly digestible to those who had no intellectual or political use for actual women: feminism without the feminists.

Rebecca Traister

#35. If free will exists, why do the tallest candidates with the best hair usually win elections ?

Scott Adams

#36. say what the masses want just to win the masses and never do what the masses want and you will loose the masses

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#37. The president doesn't order the military to seize political opponents. He doesn't order his intelligence community to lie about national security for political purposes. He uses the military or intelligence communities to protect the United States and our citizens, not to help him win elections.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

#38. Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.

Hugh Evans

#39. Elections are the formal processes by which those decisions are recorded. The regulation of the quantity, content and timing of political speech is clearly unrelated to regulating an election's "time" or "place." Can

Anonymous

#40. Take it from me-elections matter.

Al Gore

#41. Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern.

Dick Morris

#42. What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash.

James Hansen

#43. The British Government very naturally would like to see in India the form of democratic constitutions it knows best and thinks best, under which the Government of the country is entrusted to one or other political party in accordance with the turn of elections.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#44. Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable!

Rupert Murdoch

#45. In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

Olivia Wilde

#46. What happened to the good old days when rich white men just bought their way into office?

Jennifer Crusie

#47. The closer one gets to elections or wars, the further one gets from the truth.

Tony Blankley

#48. India's national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents, and different patterns of political incumbency.

Shashi Tharoor

#49. I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

Fisher Ames