Quotes About Primary Elections

#1. Our post-denominational age should be the perfect time for a Mormon to become president, or at least the Republican nominee. Mormons share nearly all the conservative commitments so beloved of the evangelicals who wield disproportionate influence in primary elections.

Noah Feldman

#2. In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani.

Conan O'Brien

#3. It was just revealed that Donald Trump hasn't voted in primary elections in over 20 years. Or in simpler terms, Trump hasn't voted in primary elections in over three wives.

Jimmy Fallon

#4. Atheism, which is mere emptiness and too depressing for words, and leads to socialism.

Julian Barnes

#5. You want to be around guys that you share the same goal with and guys who are thirsty and ready to hunt and get victories.

Corey Dillon

#6. I believe that in games, when you're talking about pitting my wits and my brain against your wits and your brain, that simplicity of the game becomes a dominant factor.

Nolan Bushnell

#7. Although individual states have primary responsibility for conducting fair and impartial elections, the FBI becomes involved when paramount federal interests are affected or electoral abuse occurs.

James Comey

#8. The more you live by external shoulds, the farther you drift from the power inherent in your own spirit.

Alan Cohen

#9. I have no beliefs," said her mother. "Only hopes.

Caroline B. Cooney

#10. Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.

Arthur Capper

#11. Retail therapy - usually one of my first resorts - wasn't working; I felt like a cat that smelled pit bull.

M.L.N. Hanover

#12. When loneliness wants to hide, it hides in a crowd.

Marty Rubin

#13. I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State ...

H.G.Wells

#14. America is the first country ... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.

Malcolm X

#15. Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

Sarah Palin

#16. Depeche Mode have never got over their teenage awkwardness with each other. We're still like that. Mates but not mates. That awkwardness is there, only now we have families and kids.

Dave Gahan

#17. The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections almost never take place once every four years as stipulated by law. The timetable for a system of research is completely different.

Aaron Ciechanover