Best 671 quotes in «election quotes» category

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

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

The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Kochs are very much involved in this election, not backing [Donald] Trump but backing everything down the ballot from him. They're pouring money into capturing the Senate and the House of Representatives, and state Houses across the country.

The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

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 ideas that accompany that victory, the ideas and the policies that are related to those ideas that are implemented after you win the election. And then it's not just one election; you have to keep winning elections. You have to keep defeating liberals, and it's the same thing here in the Brexit vote.

The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over.

The Iraqi elections struck a blow to the heart of global terrorism.

The jackasses at Elections Canada are out of control.

The Labour Party can go into the next election united behind the most radical manifesto on which we have ever campaigned.

The marketplace measurement in politics is something called an election. It's a pretty good barometer - it's transparent, it's numerical, it's objective. It gives you a pretty good measure of what your customers think of you. And in 2006 and 2008, the marketplace was telling the Republicans, We prefer the products and services of your competitors. And so when you're losing market share, you step back and say, What can we do differently?

The media is trying to rig the election.

The people who lost the elections do not want to admit that they really lost, that the one who won was closer to the people and better understood what ordinary voters want. They are absolutely reluctant to admit this, and prefer deluding themselves and others into thinking it was not their fault, that their policy was correct, they did all the right things, but someone from the outside thwarted them. But it was not so. They just lost and they have to admit it.

The only party which is going to increase taxes after the election is the Labor Party.

The only way liberals win national elections is by pretending they're not liberals.

The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.

The only logical solution to solve the Palestinian issue is to hold free elections with the participation of Palestinians inside and outside the occupied territories and a recognition of the nation's legitimacy

The only truly shocking thing about last Tuesday's election is that the Democrats didn't do far worse, or as badly as they deserved.

The overwhelming female protest to the presidential election perhaps is an accurate indicator of how essential it is to understand women, the issues they face, and the need to address women's rights, not just nationally, but globally.

The polling data in 1980 had Jimmy Carter nine points, winning by nine points, four or five days out. I will never forget that election night. In 1980 it was so bad for the Democrats - they got skunked so bad - Jimmy Carter conceded before 10 p.m. Eastern time.

The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day.

The problem with every American candidate regarding the presidency, I am not talking only about this campaign or elections, but generally, that they say something during the campaign and they do the opposite after the campaign.