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
Controversy Presidential Election quotations
I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.

Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.
President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.
In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W.
Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history.
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.
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.
100 political parties put together can never defeat the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, come 2015 presidential election.
There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.
If you've got a business - you didn't build that.
We have a presidential election coming up.
And I think the big problem, of course, is that someone will win.
[American Communist Party] legally exists in the U.
S.A., it nominates its candidates in the elections, including Presidential elections.
One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.
As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.
In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
The lead singer of Creed says he won’t endorse President Obama.
Well that settles it -- Obama will not win the 1998 presidential election.
I went to a number of women's groups and said, "Can you help us find folks," and they brought us whole binders full of women.
When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best.
I like being able to fire people.
Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.
By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.
I will not step down, I will not resign, .
.. I will work to the end of my term in office under the constitution. In the year 2000, there will be presidential elections under the constitution and I will not run in those elections.
The recent AP poll that came out last month said that approximately 90% of the American people felt that the two-party system was failing us in the presidential election.
I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.
You mention the Navy, for example, and the fact that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.
That is enough to win a three-way presidential race.
If young people understand they have the numbers and they have the power to come out and turn this election on its head.
People are already talking about the next presidential election.
There's stories all over about who might run. At a recent speech, a prominent Democrat said that Hillary Clinton should not run because she can't win. Immediately after the speech, Hillary told her husband to shut up.
In a new interview, the president discussed the upcoming election.
He said that Hillary Clinton is going to do great as a presidential candidate. When asked how Biden would do, Obama said, 'Hillary's going to do great.'
The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.
5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.
After the rigged Iranian presidential elections in 2009, the Islamic regime attacked the 'humanities' as the main source of protests, the most effective tool used by the West, especially America, to corrupt and incite Iranian youth, and finally closed down all the Humanities departments in Iran's universities.
I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.
Vote for Donald Trump. You're going to see something and you'll be so happy, you'll be so thrilled. This [presidential] election is about every man, woman and child in our country who deserves to live in safety, prosperity and peace, so true.
When all is said and done and the e-book is written about politics and the Internet, it is not going to be about the presidential election. It will be about the smaller elections in aggregate that have a huge effect on people's lives.
When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here, and hell say, Do this! Do that! And nothing will happen. Poor Ikeit wont be a bit like the Army. Hell find it very frustrating.
The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.