Best 671 quotes in «election quotes» category

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 I have to hold my nose to vote.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Every voter is a Bharat Bhagya Vidhata.

For a person [like John Lewis] that is a champion of voter rights to question whether or not Donald Trump legitimately won an election or not is an incredible position to take five days before an inauguration.

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

Foreign meddling elections is bad whether it's done by the Russians here or by us or anyplace else.

For you I am neither the PM or CM. Our bond is a bond of affection and I am your sevak.

For Vladimir Putin to be trying to impact our elections, that - we have to - there has to be - he has to be held accountable.

Frankly if I had paid more than are legally due I don't think I'd be qualified to become president.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.

General Wesley Clark commented on Gore endorsing Howard Dean. He said endorsements don't win elections. Hey, in this country, votes don't even win elections.

George W. Bush loves golf because it's like the election--low score wins.

Getting inequality out there into the consciousness was important. All these political pundits now talking about the 2014 and 2016 elections are talking about inequality.

God help this country if we're now prepared to vote for someone we don't trust. But every election cycle we do things we never dreamed of.

Gun sales have spiked every time Democrats win elections since 1980.

Hate crimes have increased since the election of Donald Trump. So I'm not surprised. I'm hopeful, very vigilant. We're seeing the same thing as what happened in 1933, when a politician stokes fears and grievances to rally them for a nationalist cause. But nationalism to the exclusion of other people is not nationalism, that's xenophobia.

[Hackers] did not stop. They - they came after us absolutely every day until the end of the election. They tried to hack into our system repeatedly.

Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isnt that really quite incredible?

Hillary Clinton, [Democrats] say, leads the popular vote by two million, and a shift of a few votes in a few states would have won the election.

Here`s my point. I don`t want you to be in a position years from now where you welcome Hillary Clinton and say actually you did win. It just wasn`t close enough to make sure that all the votes were counted or whatever. Elections have consequences. Your vote counts. Your vote has consequences.

Hillary Clinton is seen as a joke. If Putin wanted anybody to win the 2016 election, it would have been Hillary Clinton, because with Hillary Putin is closer to where he wants to get than ever. It would be like a continuation of Obama, who was totally deferential to Putin.

Here we will have possibly a bunch of tax dodgers deciding the election.

[Hillary Clinton chose to make her marriage work. That is just outrageous.]It speaks of the sexism and the misogyny in this election [2016].

Hillary Clinton has had a small but persistent lead since June - anywhere from 2 to 5 points. The stock markets and the election betting pools are predicting a Clinton win.

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?

How about this John Kerry controversy? So he's out there in California, tells some kind of joke and it backfires. He's saying he botched the joke. ... This guy can lose elections he's not even in.

I always believed that WikiLeaks as a concept would perform a global role, and to some degree it was clear that it was doing that as far back as 2007 when it changed the result of the Kenyan general election.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

How one election has exposed the true dire straits of the Democrat Party. It really is profound.

I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.

I am and will remain the president of all Cameroonians without exception, and the great winner in these elections is democracy

I am an apolitical Prime Minister. Apart from elections, I don't get involved into politics ever.

I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.

I am going to make sure that transformation happens, and I will do it in ways you cannot even imagine.

I am deeply convinced that no interference from the outside, in any country, even a small one, let alone in such a vast and great power as the United States, can influence the final outcome of the elections. It is not possible. Ever.

I am so mad at the press I could just strangle them!

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

I believe in public funding of elections, absolutely. But this system iscurrently very antiquated and no longer applies to modern day politics.

I cannot go to elections with an open stomach. If you want to negotiate we have to conclude it before the elections. I cannot just start the negotiations [with Palestinians] saying we are ready to do this and that and not having any reply.

I am the elected president of Liberia, not Ellen Sirleaf. They stole my victory, and I am here to say loud and clear that I am the winner of the elections.

I care about the presidential elections. I always vote. Sometimes I've voted more than once, illegally. But you can't anymore. The picture ID has ruined everything.

I can`t think of an election that is more important, certainly in my lifetime.