Best 671 quotes in «election quotes» category

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

Democracy doesn't just consist of holding 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Don't vote, it only encourages them.

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

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.

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 made me more aware, more conscious, more sensitive. Not just of sexism but of discrimination in all areas - class, gender, race. I had realized that there were problems .

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 night is the easiest time to act like a grownup.

Elections are a festival of democracy. Everyone must join this festival of democracy and strengthen it.

Elections are not a beauty contest. It is all about tolerance.

Elections in Nigeria Under My Watch Have Been Credible and Transparent

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

Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.

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.

Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.

Elections aren't just about who votes, but who doesn't vote.

Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable!

Elections cannot inconvenience me. They ratify my will or I neuter them.

Every election I have to hold my nose to vote.

Every election, roughly half the population votes Democrat and the other half votes Republican. Now, I understand why the Republicans get one percent of the vote - the richest one percent.That other percent, someone will have to explain to me.

Even before the election I was saying that the rhetoric used by Trump was going to cause violence before and after the election. That was easy to predict.

Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

Every election, Mickey Mouse looks better and better as President.

Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake.

Every voter is a Bharat Bhagya Vidhata.

For many celebrities, securing the publics votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy.

Few knew in 2000 that George W. Bush was going to end up with neoconservatives all over the place. Once 9/11 happened, I think it's fair to say that some neocons have had an enormous influence. The whole solution to every problem was to go after Iraq. This had been a neoconservative mantra for ten years. Bush certainly sees himself as having been given an endorsement. He was asked why Donald Rumsfeld,Condoleezza Rice, and Paul Wolfowitz have been promoted, these people who led us into the debacle in Iraq. Bush said there was accountability-it was the election. So there we are.

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