Election Quotes

I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

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.

Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

We welcome the Election Commission's announcement of a five-phase poll in the state. We will abide by all the guidelines and directives issued by the Commission.

Young people are the key to this election.

We are not going to finance elections when we need to fight to win back occupied territory.

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner.

On 'Meet the Press' yesterday President Bush was asked what he would do if he lost the election and Bush said, ''Phhh, you mean like last time?'

But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may be known and distinguished by holy lives.

Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.

In the next election, can we vote to ban those ribbon things that kind of keep clothing on hangers but really just hang out of your armpits?

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.

Tony Blair will be remembered as a great friend to Wales because it was his landslide election victory in 1997 that led to devolution.

Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?

I would also like to see Russia not interfere in our elections.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!

So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.

My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.

I even believe [Donald Trump] won a little after - after the election rethinking, I think if we'd spent a little more time in Minnesota, we would've won Minnesota.

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

As is the case with that generation [Millennials], they look like they're interested and all fired up and ready to go, and then Election Day comes.

In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore.

Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.

Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.

We've got to stop the name-calling and we've got to stop looking at the next election. We've got to be focused on figuring out what we're doing for the next generation.

I shall not rest until, once again, the destinies of our people and our party are joined together again in victory at the next general election Labour in its rightful place in government again.

That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.

Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color.

There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.

Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can't ruin this country even with politics.

The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.

Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.

Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace.

As the ranking member of the Rules Committee, I'm particularly concerned about ensuring our elections are safe from foreign interference.

There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.

I will say one thing has changed dramatically which is this Supreme Court vacancy, and it will reshape the race on my side, because I'd rather lose an election than lose the Supreme Court.