Election Quotes

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

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

My focus is not on any one particular election or any one particular candidate. My focus is on the issues and policy that will make a difference expanding opportunity.

Nevertheless, I don't hesitate to say that elections in Germany are decided in the center, not on the fringes and not in the accumulation of minority interests.

I am glad to see the wheels are moving at last toward comprehensive immigration reform after last year's election. I am glad that immigrants are speaking up.

The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'

He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election reforms, and bipartisan solutions.

George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.

It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.

In elections, the undecided vote is usually the deciding factor.

A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.

I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.

You didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

When you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people's minds about the legitimacy of our election, that undermines democracy. Then you're doing the work of our adversaries for them.

Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

I don't look at my pension. It's not as big as yours so it doesn't take as long.

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.

We will not lose this election for lack of money.

The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system.

The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.

Can we pray for the reelection of George Bush?

The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country.

With so much at stake in this election, both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan should 'go rogue.'

I really think I am a nice person. [But] this is not going to be an election on niceness. This is going to be an election on competence.

Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.

I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election if I win. I would also reserve my right to contest or file a legal challenge in the case of a questionable result.

This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you.

Tomorrow is Election Day. It's what they call the midterm elections, and you can cut the indifference with a knife. It's the day Americans leave work early and pretend to vote.

Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.

How about this John Kerry controversy? So he's out there in California, tells some kind of joke and it backfires. He's saying he botched the joke. ... This guy can lose elections he's not even in.

The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party.

I proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base - those people should be allowed to vote in the American election.

I didn't have the base I needed to win the election

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

Don't vote, it only encourages them.

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

The United Nations has no business in our elections.

Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.

Part of my dogsbody job during the 1983 election was choosing Mum's missile-proof clothes. They had to be disposable.

It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election.

I can't do that to myself...

This election ain't no stinkin' TV show.

I didn't really feel 100 percent comfortable until we started working on the 2004 election.

That could be the issue that the party - that the party faces as we get ready to potentially nominate someone who's utterly unelectable in a general election contest.

A campaign is a disagreement, and disagreements divide. But an election is a decision, and decisions clear the way for harmony and peace. I mean to be president of all the people.

A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.

Bars are closed on Election Day so people won't vote under the influence. Why are libraries closed?

Finally, it occurs to me that the biggest problem with our elections is that however you vote, you wind up electing a politician.