Best 671 quotes in «election quotes» category

When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win.

Who is fit to be elected?' asked Napoleon. 'A Caesar, an Alexander only comes along once a century, so that election must be a matter of chance.

Why is it that we all say we hate our hypocritical politicians being controlled by special interests groups, and every election...we vote them in again.

You can keep the Office of Personnel Management records, I don't need Electronic Health Records, give me the metadata, big data analytics and a custom tailored algorithm and a budget and during election time, I can cut to the psychological core of any population, period!

You can blame the politicians, the businessmen, the generals, the machine... But really, if you're looking to blame someone: blame me. I'm the American System. I'm the machine. That's the price of living in a democracy: we all gotta take the rap.

You can lead if you can serve. You can serve when you can love. You can love when you are graced. The truth is that God knows love will be needed in volumes, this is why he made his grace abundant. Leaders are lovers. Misleaders are haters!

You think an Air Gap is a defense? Sofacy, Stuxnet, Uroburos, AirHopper, BitWhisperer and ProjectSauron…enough said!

You need to know the constituency you belong to...and that is revealed by your constituents. When your constituents are speaking in public and making of stories, your constituency can be "journalism".

A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.

After my election there was talk of a postracial America. And such a vision, however well intended, was never realistic.

A lot can happen in a week - just read any Bible, .. On the seventh day, Election Day, unlike the Bible, we can't rest.

A lot of things, whether it's Brexit, the U.S. election, things that are happening on Facebook Live, the way that Twitter in many cases was weaponized, obviously for good but then obviously for bad, for proxy. Governments who use it to troll and give voice to conspiracy theories, white supremacists, et cetera. I think that's not going away.

After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.

A lot of people think Barack Obama should have responded to the Russian hacking of the U.S. elections weeks ago, months ago. So these happened on his watch. There's nothing wrong with him dealing with it.

American election was really personal for Putin because he believed that Clinton is a personal enemy. He genuinely believed she was behind the Moscow protests in 2012, 2011.

[American Communist Party] legally exists in the U.S.A., it nominates its candidates in the elections, including Presidential elections.

Amritsar is the place where my work and action speaks for itself. Since, I started contesting elections from this holy place, I have promised myself never to abandon this place. Either, I will contest from Amritsar, or else I won’t contest elections

A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet.

A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome.

And I'm very proud of the 50,000 poll workers and election officials who delivered a free and fair election.

And if we were another country being analyzed by America, we would conclude that this country is ripe for stealing elections and for fraud.

And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet - because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They're a threat to our children's future. And in this election, you can do something about it.

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.

An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

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.

Anybody from the public can come in and observe ballots being processed and those votes being counted in elections officials' offices in any county in any state in the nation.

Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?

Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.

Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls.

Are you excited about the recall election? Arnold's campaign has a new slogan: 'Win one for the groper.'

As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.

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

A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook.

As we know the KGB is all over this election [2016].

Both during the elections and as Prime Minister, I have repeatedly and publicly said that I support the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.

Before the election, I reported on a story about a counterintelligence officer from another service sending reports to the FBI saying that his sources in Russia were saying that Moscow tried for years to cultivate and co-opt Donald Trump. I'm not saying that happened. I'm saying I hope the FBI took a strong look, because it is really hard to believe that a president-elect would be so callous in how he approaches this issue and so dismissive of the seriousness of it.

A woman has the right to run for election whether she's male or female!

Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.

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.

Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.

Benjamin Netanyahu is no Winston Churchill. Whatever else he, is he's not a Winston Churchill. He basically violated the great rule, which is it's better to mislead the people and to lose an election than to mislead the people and win an election.

Brexit and Trump's election are forcing countries to come up with new radical ideas.

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

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.

But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.

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.

Congress can't take the year off, election or no election.

CNN stands to make a hundred million dollars more than it's expected lift for the election cycle, due to the phenomenon that is Donald Trump.