Best 671 quotes in «election quotes» category

Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.

Marriage is what marriage is... It’s like going out and saying, ‘That tree is a car.’ Well, the tree’s not a car. A tree’s a tree. Marriage is marriage.

Maybe [Donald Trump] is just never dealt with somebody who's not particularly impressed by his carrying on, but I'm not. So I'm going to stay focused on what's at stake in this election.

Maybe the establishment has to get out too. I don't know. When you look at what's going on, Republicans have lost two big elections in a row. Big ones. And the last one with Mitt Romney should have been won easily. You know, you're going against a failed president.Barack Obama has done a horrible job; he's been a horrible president. And he was just as bad four years ago, and Mitt Romney should have won that election; and he didn't.

Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and contrary to men's preservation, and the punishment conducing to the preservation of the rest, inasmuch as to punish those that do voluntary hurt, and none else, frameth and maketh men's wills such as men would have them.

Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

Moreover, as God respects no persons, so He respects no conditions upon which He gives salvation to us.

Mr. Obama said that he personally told Mr. Putin to knock it off and vows to retaliate. But the Obama presidency is coming to an end and his successor still won't accept that Russia is guilty of tampering with U.S. elections. But president-elect Donald Trump is accepting the thanks of those who voted for him.

Nevertheless, I don't hesitate to say that elections in Germany are decided in the center, not on the fringes and not in the accumulation of minority interests.

My critics always forget to mention that I was democratically elected, the others were not. Everyone in Uganda can challenge me, everyone can vote, the elections are free. Not many countries have achieved what we did.

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.

No one can say that this was the decisive and [Russians hacking ] was what elected [Donald] Trump, but clearly his behavior during the campaign in terms of what he said in the week or two before the election was unacceptable.

Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.

No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate, they know that this is the place that we were born and raised.

No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument - the Incorporated National Will. ... When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American. And nobody will ever say "Heil" to him, nor will they call him "Führer" or "Duce." But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike bleat of "O.K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief! Oh Kaaaay!

Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.

No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.

None can know their election but by their conformity to the image of Christ; for all that are chosen are chosen to sanctification.

No politician is perfect. But in every election in your life, there will be one choice that is better than the others. Go out and vote for that one.

Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a 'shellacking' in the November 2010 elections. That shellacking was primarily the result of massive policy overreach when he had a Democratic Congress in his pocket.

November 8th, we'd better be careful, because that election is going to be rigged. People are going to walk in and they're going to vote 10 times, maybe, who knows?

Now [after election] where it goes into violence, I have a zero tolerance for riots.

Obviously, we're really upset about the state of the election. It's horrifying, as everybody knows, that we could have a totally fascist president.

Oh despise not election! therein lies all your hope, that there is a remnant who shall infallibly be saved.

Of course I don't know what's going on in that meeting on in the mind of Donald Trump. But I do know one of the things President Barack Obama was struck by was how much time he spent on cyber-security as president. And one of the things he said was that, in the years ahead, the next president will be spending even more time. And cyber-security isn't a thing that goes away after this election. It's a constant flow.

Of course I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls

Ohioans know that he inherited a mess and created a surplus. So, on election day, John [Kasich] will prevail in Ohio.

Part of my dogsbody job during the 1983 election was choosing Mum's missile-proof clothes. They had to be disposable.

One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.

Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.

Paul Ryan, was saying [on election 2016 "I don`t see any evidence of systemic fraud.

One of the panelists on CNN, after the Hillary Clinton commencement speech, literally started crying, "I can't believe, I can't believe the election actually happened and she lost." I don't need to see that. I don't need to see a bunch of whimpering leftists who themselves are incapable of grounding themselves in reality, whining and moaning.

One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.

Over time, the repetition, Donald Trump's lies about election rigging, have become a form of background noise, more of the same. And this is a propaganda technique, whether Trump knows it or not.

Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.

President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election.

People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.

Political elections are not life and death.

People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.

People keep asking me whether I'm going to vote for Obama or McCain in the election. But I'm like, why bother? There will never be another leader as good as he was.

People know elections, like television commercials, are not real.

[People] will be reminded of the integrity of our election systems and the confidence that they deserve to have.

Please proceed, Governor.

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.