Elections Quotes · Page 16

Issues are won based upon whether or not you can keep this economy strong; elections are won based upon economic issues and…

— George W. Bush

Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India…

— Shashi Tharoor

As president of the National Assembly, I am fully able and willing to assume the office of the presidency on an interim…

— Juan Guaido

Elections have been free and fair with full participation of the people, reinforcing that the ballot is mightier than the bullet.

— Anurag Thakur

American presidential elections usually amount to a series of overcorrections: Clinton begat Bush, who produced Obama, whose lax border policies fueled the…

— Tucker Carlson

I think the American people have been surprised by the enthusiasm with which the Iraqis have taken to elections and politics.

— Duncan Hunter

The way elections are won in Minnesota is by talking to people and sharing what's on their minds. It sounds so simple,…

— Tina Smith

The Clinton strength was to play to people without a college education. High school people. That's how you win elections.

— Steve Bannon

Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a 'shellacking' in the November…

— John Podhoretz

Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why…

— Will Rogers

The problem is that young people are less likely to vote than older people. What results is a situation in which sometimes…

— Barack Obama

There are two chief responsibilities of the Secretary's office. One is to run the elections in the State of Connecticut to make…

— Susan Bysiewicz

I mean, what's the elections? You know, two guys, same background, wealth, political influence, went to the same elite university, joined the…

— Noam Chomsky

“Citizens hold a powerful tool: the ability to choose civility at the ballot box. That choice has ripple effects. When we elect…

— Diane Kalen-Sukra

Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to…

— Jared Diamond

We have a democracy of elections to elections. After winning an election, the parties become brazen and arrogant. They would do all…

— Arvind Kejriwal

When I had won the elections two times, the atmosphere of Rampur was completely different. But the BJP's Hindu vote, they always…

— Jaya Prada

Historically, whichever party is in the White House loses the Virginia gubernatorial election, just as the White House's party loses House seats…

— Harry Enten

We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It's a joke. It doesn't enforce the law.

— Russ Feingold

You can't really feel the direct change from one president to another versus people closer to you in local elections.

— Eric Andre

While 1857 was about 'Swaraj ki ladai', the 2014 elections would be about 'Surajya ki ladai'.

— Narendra Modi

When there is a parliamentarian crisis, the only solution in a democracy is early elections.

— Petro Poroshenko

We must correct the problems and inequities in the way we conduct and decide elections in the United States.

— Tom Daschle

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted…

— Kevin Spacey

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by…

— Peter Schuyler

Mr. Obama's call to support genuine democracy has implications for the kinds of elections the international community promotes and endorses.

— Tzipi Livni

I supported my friend Congressman Shuler over former Speaker Nancy Pelosi during our party's leadership elections in November citing a need for…

— Joe Donnelly

“It is perhaps a sign of the strength of our republic that so few people feel the need to participate. That must…

— Jon Stewart

Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.

— Winston Churchill

A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.

— Adam Cohen

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

— John Waters

If the opposition wants power they must participate in democratic elections and win the vote of the people.

— Jovenel Moise

I do trust the voters... They want presidential elections to be about the future, a vision for the future.

— Doug Burgum

I kind of resent the idea that the whole world has to be interested in the American elections.

— Arundhati Roy

I don't care if you're Democrat. I don't care if you're Republican. We need to make sure that, you know, people in…

— Ana Kasparian

Pops added,you know, they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve. And if you do, you never get…

— Anonymous

Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.

— Adam Cohen

“Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.” FRANKLIN P. ADAMS”

— C.J. Werleman

A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.

— Nicolas Sarkozy

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including…

— Akhmad Kadyrov