Best 671 quotes in «election quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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].

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve.

Conservative presence in the media has not been reflected in elections. Well, maybe the midterm elections of 2010, 2014.

Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections.

Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the first time in 2005. The trouble with Democracy is, you hold elections. The trouble with dictatorships is...you don't.

Democrats are not a national party. They have lost governorships, state legislatures, mayoralties. They have lost 1,500 seats since elections, 2010, '12, '14, it's been devastating. And it's all Obama.

Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.

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

Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

Donald Trump and his team have not provided any evidence of widespread fraud in this year's election.

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

Don't vote, it only encourages them.

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

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

Diplomacy never stops, and, with or without an election, it never stops.

Direct elections on the spot to all representative organs, up to the supreme organ, are a better guarantee of the interests of the working population of our boundless country.

DNI director [James] Clapper said as much many, many times, that there is no evidence that any outcome of the election was changed.

Donald Trump disproved the notion that there is a direct dollar-for-dollar correlation between how much money you had in your traditional war chest and what your election outcome was going to be.

During a news conference, when he was standing with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President [Donald] Trump responded to a question from an Israeli reporter about the rise in anti-Semitic attacks - by boasting about his election victory.

Election Day now has become the last day to vote.

Election is always to sanctification. Where there is no visible fruit of sanctification, we may be sure there is no election.

Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks.

Elections themselves do not necessarily lead to more corporate uncertainty - quite the reverse, stable democracies create a reliable environment. And elections have caused hardly any change in the basic economic framework in the last few decades.

Elections with integrity are a challenge everywhere, including in the West.

Election campaigns seem to siphon away political anger and even basic political intelligence into this great vaudeville, after which we all end up in exactly the same place.

Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of His sovereign good pleasure.

Election' made zero money at the box office, but it started my career.

Elections aren't supposed to be for sale... it's that simple.

Elections matter and voting counts.