Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. — H. L. Mencken
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters. — Abraham Lincoln
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. — T. S. Eliot
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. — George Eliot
The election is not a time to discuss serious issues. — Kim Campbell
Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils. — George Orwell
Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate. — Felix Frankfurter
A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome. — Leopoldo Lopez
The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win. — Leonid Brezhnev
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times. — Mark Twain
As H. L. Mencken put it: Every election is an advanced auction on stolen goods. — Saifedean Ammous
The essence of a democracy is a free electorate. — Arlen Specter
In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? — Barack Obama
Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders. — Thomas Sowell
Short Political Election Quotes
I'm offended by political jokes. Too often they get elected. — Henny Youngman
The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out. — Vyacheslav Molotov
In this country, we not only have a right to vote, we have a right to know who we can vote for. — Jill Stein
A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate. — Thomas Jefferson
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. — Bertrand Russell
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. — George Bernard Shaw
I don't do a lot of political jokes. Too many are getting elected. — Bob Hope
Top 10 Political Election Quotes
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. — Harry S Truman
A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932 ... and 50 million people died as a result ... what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important. — Bernie Sanders
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. — Harry S. Truman
We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day. — Ann Richards
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. — George Macdonald
Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected. — Thomas Sowell
The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors. — Thomas Jefferson
I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here. — Bob Riley
I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system. — Mary Robinson
Labour's support in Scotland depends on their ability to be electable. If they are divided and unelectable, what's the point? — Nicola Sturgeon
Political Election Image Quotes
When words are both true and kind they can change the world.
Election Process Quotes
The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and
money began to play an important part in determining
elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to
the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the
Republic was subjected to the rule of emperors — Plutarch
We need election reform because our elections are being stolen. And these huge powerful voting machine vending companies have privatized the election process in our country. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. — Anais Nin
Be gentle with yourself, you're doing the best you can.
Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee. — John Jay Hooker
Greenlight is a bad example of an election process. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could just do away with Greenlight completely, because it was a bottleneck rather than a way for people to communicate choice. — Gabe Newell
I will not be able to carry the physical burden of leading the Party at the next general election. I hope it will soon be possible for the customary processes of consultation to be carried on within the Party about its future leadership. — Harold MacMillan
Be the person your dog thinks you are.
It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair. — Zalmay Khalilzad
There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law. — Pat Robertson
Twenty-one years ago today Saddam Hussein was first elected president of Iraq and he has been re-elected ever since. Apparently they have the same electoral process we do, you don't need the popular vote to win. — Jay Leno
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
Election Candidate Quotes
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. — Gore Vidal
[American Communist Party] legally exists in the U.S.A., it nominates its candidates in the elections, including Presidential elections. — Joseph Stalin
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
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
The problem with every American candidate regarding the presidency, I am not talking only about this campaign or elections, but generally, that they say something during the campaign and they do the opposite after the campaign. — Bashar al-Assad
God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election. — James Dobson
This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president. — James Baker
Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.
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
So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters. — Gerald R. Ford
Barack Obama didn't get elected president, would never have been elected president, had he decided to run as a black candidate. In order to reach the broadest number of people you have to speak to their interests as broadly as you can. — Gwen Ifill
One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected. — Bernard Meltzer
Election Campaign Quotes
I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall. — Donald Trump
Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election. — Olympia Snowe
In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history. — Mark Shields
The stronger you become, the gentler you will be.
I campaigned in 2012 all over this country for months: 'Repeal and replace Obamacare.' That was not the mandate of the voters. If they wanted to repeal Obamacare, the 2012 election would have been probably significantly different. — John McCain
You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns. — Stephen Harper
If I take donations from Big Corporates to fund our election campaign, I'll be accountable to them and would have to do what they tell me to do after winning elections. But if I take donations from common people to fund our Election Campaign, after winning, I'll be accountable to them — Arvind Kejriwal
Being polite is so rare these days, thats its often confused with flirting.
I am convinced that international terrorism gave itself the goal of not allowing the re-election of Bush. The statement by bin Laden in the final stages of the pre-election campaign is the best confirmation of this. — Vladimir Putin
The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over. — Mike Rounds
Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy. — Edward Abbey
When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best. — Donald Trump
Presidential Election Quotes
Decisions made in Washington are more important to us than those made here in Dar es-Salaam. So, maybe my people should be allowed to vote in American presidential elections. — Julius Nyerere
Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets. — Barack Obama
The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle against him. — Alexei Navalny
Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, ut because you are.
When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote. — Alexei Navalny
American presidential elections usually amount to a series of overcorrections: Clinton begat Bush, who produced Obama, whose lax border policies fueled the rise of Trump. — Tucker Carlson
President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob. — Rick Santorum
Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.
One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential. — Bradley Whitford
100 political parties put together can never defeat the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, come 2015 presidential election. — Patience Jonathan
There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. — Mitt Romney
If you've got a business - you didn't build that. — Barack Obama
Political Campaign Quotes
What my campaign is about is a political revolution - millions of people standing up and saying, enough is enough. Our government belongs to all of us, and not just the hand full of billionaires. — Bernie Sanders
Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in. — Lyndon B. Johnson
I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience. — Ronald Reagan
Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician and I'll show you a crook.
The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with sabotaging the electoral process. — Walter Cronkite
Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far. — Nicola Sturgeon
I happen to think that conservatism, when properly applied to the 21st century, could actually help everybody. And the message of Trump's campaign was obviously not super-appealing to Latino Americans, black Americans and so forth. That really bothered me. — James David Vance
Politeness and courteousness are a small price to pay for the goodwill of others.
But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating. — Robert McChesney
But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating. — Robert Waterman McChesney
Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes. — John Podhoretz
Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time. — Mary Cheney
Election Day Quotes
Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country. — Samuel Adams
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
We have got to change the political culture in America. We need a political revolution. That means we are working on politics not just three weeks before an election but 365 days a year. — Bernie Sanders
I haven't left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we're screwed! — Bette Midler
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
In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time. — George J. Mitchell
Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers. — Jay Leno
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
The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it. — Mark Twain
If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog. — Harry S. Truman
Election Time Quotes
When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country. — Molly Ivins
When it comes to politics and elections, far too many Christians spend more time appealing to family, history and tradition, culture, racial expediency, and personal preference than they do to what the Bible teaches. — Tony Evans
The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election — George Carlin
I wish I had time to explain everything I did. Almost everything was done with an eye on the GLBT movement...last week I got a phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and the voice was young, my election gave one more young person, hope — Harvey Milk
The DA is the only party in South Africa that has grown in every national election and that trend must continue, and it must accelerate, because South Africa is in a race against time to save our democracy. — Helen Zille
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action. — Gore Vidal
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. — Gore Vidal
I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures. — Akhmad Kadyrov
If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side. — Orson Scott Card
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. — Harry S. Truman
Vote For Election Quotes
We hope for the best, if elections are conducted like this all over South Africa we can indeed say we welcome any results and accept them. — Julius Malema
We have rigged the latest election. 93.5 per cent have voted for Lukashenko. But they say it is not a European outcome. We have made it 86 per cent. — Alexander Lukashenko
Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. — Unknown Author
Labour long ago realised it could no longer automatically assume that it would win elections in Glasgow and other places where it has taken people's votes for granted for decades - as we have seen across Scotland at local council and Holyrood elections. — Nicola Sturgeon
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
I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60% of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning. Today's vote on Brexit has no constitutional legitimacy. — Jeremy Corbyn
The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe; for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them. — Turkish Proverbs
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
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
General Elections Quotes
My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government. — Idi Amin
Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor. — Rosa Luxemburg
You had 42 blacks that ran on the Republican ticket this Cycle, 14 made of them made it to the general election and two of us made it to the House of Representatives. So I think that there is a new movement that needs to have a voice in the Congressional Black Caucus. — Allen West
General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power. — Herbert M. Shelton
If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum. — Tony Blair
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
I was delighted that by campaigning throughout England, Scotland and Wales, addressing in all 39 public meetings, I had contributed to the victory of the Conservative Party at this general election. — Edward Heath
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
In seats where perhaps we don't expect to win at the next general election, the new infrastructure gives us a chance to win local council seats and to build a campaigning base which could help us to win in the future. — Theresa May
I will do what it takes to help Ed Miliband win general election. — Tony Blair
Free Elections Quotes
My critics always forget to mention that I was democratically elected, the others were not. Everyone in Uganda can challenge me, everyone can vote, the elections are free. Not many countries have achieved what we did. — Yoweri Museveni
I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free. — Olusegun Obasanjo
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. — Herbert Marcuse
Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all — John Calvin
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making? — Herbert Spencer
Even Jesus Christ cannot conduct a free and fair election in Nigeria. — Olusegun Obasanjo
Man is nothing; he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him" and "you dishonour God by denying election. You plainly make salvation depend, not on God's 'free grace' but on Man's 'free will.' — George Whitefield
In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections. — Samuel Adams
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to life, liberty and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly may not be submitted to vote; they depend on no elections. — Robert H. Jackson
I think it is its time for the leaders of Africa to say to President Mugabe that the people of Zimbabwe's deserve a free and fair election. — Raila Odinga
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
No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind. — Thomas Sowell
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. — Deng Xiaoping
It's a farce that Joe Biden is actually running for President. — Vivek Ramaswamy
I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics. — Condoleezza Rice
As the 2012 elections approach the finish line, the chatter among columnists and political reporters is about upcoming books that take readers inside the campaigns, cutting-edge efforts to micro-target voters on Internet social applications, the enormous money flowing through super-PACs, and extreme political polarization. — Juan Williams
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. — Adlai E. Stevenson
I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country. — Ross Perot
The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function. — Glenn Greenwald
The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. — Learned Hand
I would rather be beaten and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog. I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless[ly] and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized. — Davy Crockett
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. — Cal Thomas
We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards? — Jay Leno
Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state. — George Mason
A politician thinks of the next election; a statement of the next generation. A politician looks for the success of his party; a statesman for that of his country. The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician is satisfied to drift. — James Freeman Clarke
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