Election Quotes · Page 29

[Hamas] thought that if you go to elections you become a democrat for the rest of your life. They think that democracy…

— Shimon Peres

I don't think it's really good once you've lost an election to sit around, watch your former opponent, and swipe at them.

— Kerry Healey

This election [2016], and I believe this, is our last chance to secure the border, stop illegal immigration and reform our laws…

— Donald Trump

Representative democracy is a remarkably blunt instrument. Hundreds of issues are bundled together at every election, yet the vote tends to swing…

— George Monbiot

I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair, I'll fix it.

— Mitt Romney

Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast…

— John Adams

The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are…

— Ahmed Chalabi

My study of past elections in which there was a dominant issue other than the economy indicates that whomever is most trusted…

— Harry Enten

I expect that after the election and the results that the international community will understand which was the framework of this process…

— Alberto Fujimori

It's not just other countries in Europe having a say over what we do. It's unelected bureaucrats in Brussels on sort of…

— David Cameron

After the Donald Trump's election, there was a surge of hate crimes. We saw acts of vandalism, certainly a lot of slander…

— Jonathan Greenblatt

You ask a politician a question, like, why they ran in an election, and you'll hear, I assume, something about wanting to…

— Amitava Kumar

I believe that if Democrats - not any one Democrat, and certainly not just me - want to start winning races again,…

— Laura Moser

This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy.…

— Danny Glover

The dreadful decision in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission was the culmination of the Republican appointees' careful work to open American…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

So now the question is, basically, right now, how will the Osama Bin Laden tape affect the election? And I have a…

— Walter Cronkite

What I'm concerned about is the views of many Democrats who know their states, who know how hard it is to win…

— Hillary Clinton

I saw Nader shortly before the election and - I voted him the time before, because I liked the sort of long-term…

— Aaron McGruder

Donald Trump was tainted every kind of way you could imagine. I mean, no way in the world that Donald Trump is…

— Keith Ellison

The Forgotten Man... delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the…

— William Graham Sumner

The purpose of God is the sovereign cause of all that good that is in man, and of all that external, internal…

— Thomas Brooks

For 18 months, leading up to the November election, I did everything in my power to show how ridiculous and crazy Trump's…

— Hasan Minhaj

I think there were two messages in last year's election. One is pretty obvious. People were mad as hell at the president…

— Mitch McConnell

My grandmother was also an active member of the tenants association and a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, and both of…

— Scarlett Johansson

“In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God,” Tony says when I pick up the phone.”

— David Levithan

Since winning the election, Donald Trump has jump-started voter suppression efforts at the federal and state levels.

— Jason Kander

Kink isn't a crime; conspiring with a foreign power to commit espionage, fix election is. Stay focused.

— Justin Miller

Basically, the start of my thinking process is: 'OK, if you didn't have to worry about re-election, what would you be doing?'…

— Ray Nagin

Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of…

— Patricia Hewitt

Elections in L.A. are so different. Here you've got politicians with phony smiles making false promises to voters with fake boobs and…

— Jay Leno

I want to explain to everyone that during election season, a politician is always short of time. We are thankful to any…

— Ravish Kumar

This whole [presidential] election is being rigged. These lies, spread by the media, without witnesses, without backup or anything else.

— Donald Trump

The senate intelligence committee announced it would launch a bipartisan investigation into Russia's alleged interference in the election.

— Donald Trump

Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?

— Cynthia Payne

Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else.

— Tom Coburn

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

— Ahmed Chalabi

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

— Matt Taibbi

It does no good to be a conservative if you can't sell a conservative message in a general election.

— Alan Wilson

George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist…

— Karen DeCrow