Election Quotes

There is only one candidate in this election who can universally mobilize conservatives, and as evident from the variety of primary victors, none of them is a Republican. It's Hillary Clinton.

I make it a policy every election to only debate once, Democrats and Progressives. And I will say that the way that you have acted, very candidly, has been dishonorable in this entire campaign.

Maine election law specifies that anyone who is qualified to access the voter file must keep it confidential. And that is directory language. Making the list available is discretionary under the law.

Our party supports decriminalisation of cannabis. It's not a priority for this election campaign but it has been a long-standing policy of ours.

For many celebrities, securing the publics votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy.

There's been a lot of study of the demographics this year that could decide this election [2016] and a lot of money being spent targeting voters who could tip the vote.

Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.

And the first thing we have to do is vote. Hey, no, not just once in a while. Not just when my husband or somebody you like is on the ballot. But in every election at every level, all of the time.

My goal is not to win a straw poll that doesn't mean something. It's to win the election that means everything for the future of the country.

And so, now things that are important are, for example, the upcoming elections. It's important that society demonstrate that it is not pretending that these elections are elections.

I know how it feels when you're coming into a new situation, that the other guys won the election.

I think we can all agree this is a very important election [2016]. We don't want to see Hillary Clinton become the president of the United States.

Frankly if I had paid more than are legally due I don't think I'd be qualified to become president.

I've been as consistent as human beings can be.

I'm not sure about these cookies ... They came from the local 7/11 bakery, or whatever.

I'm not going to say to Putin that he'll get more flexibility after the election. After the election he'll get more backbone.

I think there's something that's fascist [in Donald Trump's election], and something that I think we could probably learn from, in terms of the energy in the world right now.

New England has a strong tradition of localism. What is ordinarily called election day in most of the United States is called town meeting day in Vermont.

Elections are about the future.

What is key for winning the election is to be able to put forth a vision for our future and how this election affects people's lives.

This is an election of hope. It is bringing a new trust. These elections will give new strength to the nation.

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.

Is there anything more dangerous to the cause of liberty than a politician fixated on re-election?

Oh, he was asking to have an open marriage and I refused.

It's a normal way of doing business.

I'm old enough, I remember when Richard Nixon had the election stolen in 1960. And no serious historian doubts that Illinois and Texas were stolen.

If a bunch of Republicans are too stiff- necked, too proud, or in some cases too committed to the old order, after the election, I think they're going to be very sobered by their position.

What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.

A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.

You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made it doesn't come from elections.

Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake.

In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election

I think George Bush is going to win in a walk. I really believe I'm hearing from the Lord it's going to be like a blowout election in 2004.

I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.

I never asked for stimulus.

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.

During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.

Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.

Russian government attacked our election.

Every election is different, every context is different. I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president Bill Clinton was important.

Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.

The key to winning any general election in the USA is to excite your base and then expand your base - get independent voters and voters who haven't been voting for your party to come to your party.

Basically, the start of my thinking process is: 'OK, if you didn't have to worry about re-election, what would you be doing?' That's kind of how I'm starting to think.

I thought I was going to go back to Stanford, and then I got Election. I loved being an actor.

You have no idea whether the hacking even influenced the election.

If you once cede to the Court the power to decide elections, let alone even the power to halt counting of the votes, then you have ceded it everything.

I've been doing politics 30 years. I've never seen an election like this [in 2016]. This is entirely unpredictable.

There's no point trying to sugar-coat this or get Jesuitical about it. Yes, Russia tried to manipulate our election. It's appalling. Yes, it should be investigated and taken seriously.

I would do away with Education, Commerce, and let's see - the third one I can't. I can't. Oops.