Best 671 quotes in «election quotes» category

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

Russia and other countries have been hacking and attempting to attack American institutions for years, that Russia's attack on American elections has been going back for over 50 years. So this is nothing new. And the fact that this particular hack was perpetrated by Russian entities is something that no one is disputing.

Saddam Hussein is a threat, but the threat is not so great that we must be stampeded to provide such authority to this president just weeks before an election.

Russian government attacked our election.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid says he will not seek re-election. Harry said he wants to spend more time with his family. As I always say, check with your family.

Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election

Since all signs indicate that we shouldn't participate in this election, participating in the election has no meaning.

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.

So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.

Take it from me: Elections matter.

Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.

So you [Nicholas Kristof] have got this new column out, 12 steps for people who say are traumatized by the [ Donald Trump] election.

Statistically there is enough voter fraud to sway zero elections.

Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.

Stay home on Election Day ... for the sake of the nation

The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You cant have a government within the country and not have control over everything thats happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.

Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge.

That's part of what I tried to describe to my team and supporters after the election, there was a lot of disappointment.

The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country.

Thank heaven Election Day is over. No more campaign ads, no more mud-slinging, no more candidates pretending they're straight. It's over!

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

The aftermath of this extraordinary election [2016] could be just as surprising as the race itself.

The American people probably aren't going to fall in love with Mitt Romney.

The candidates before you know that the IFP has set up a system of deployed IFP national and provincial leaders who are not only monitoring the performance of candidates during these elections but will also do so after these elections.

The Bush campaign for re-election has officially begun. They're actually running television commercials. Have you seen any of the television commercials? In one of the commercials, you see George Bush for thirty seconds. In another commercial, you get to see George Bush for sixty seconds - kind of like his stint in the National Guard.

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

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 Democrats were crushed in the midterm elections. The Republican juggernaut pounded the Democrats, and the pundits say they will not really know what happened to the Democrats until they find the black box.

The Democrats were losing elections everywhere, except when Obama was on the ballot - and that is the racial component.

The circus doesn't stop. A federal appeals court has postponed the recall election. How stupid are we? Even our recalls get recalled.

The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.

The Democrat Party and the media - primarily, the media - has created a genuine insane asylum that is the Democrat Party base. The Democrat Party base believes that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians. The Democrat Party base believes that the Russians stole election from Hillary. They believe it because that's what they've been told solidly for nine months. They believe it. They have been driven insane.

The election of John F Kennedy will lead to the death of a free church and a free state.

The dread was built into the 2016 election - a little spoonful of dread.

The election of Hoover...should result in continued prosperity for 1929.

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

The elections are the greatest symbol of participation and political reform.

The election moment is merely the American public saying, "We'd rather you be President than that guy." That's it.

The election is another element of ambiguity, .. and oil remains the crucial variable.

The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.

The elections would be free and democratic, and any result would have to be accepted.

The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.

The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it's changing the conversation.

The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

The liberals are this way. When they lose elections, they don't look inward and ask what they did wrong. They look at you and ask, "Why are you so stupid? How in the world could you have not voted for us?".

The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters.

The great unknown in this country is where this leaves the Republican Party after this election. Will it be the party of the Kochs or will it be the party of [Donald] Trump?

The jackasses at Elections Canada are out of control.