Election Quotes · Page 105

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

— Barbara Bush

Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.

— Paul Collier

Conservative presence in the media has not been reflected in elections. Well, maybe the midterm elections of 2010, 2014.

— Rush Limbaugh

It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism.

— Max Lucado

This election [2016] will determine whether America is a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy, but are…

— Donald Trump

We saw a true wave election in 2010 for Republicans. There was no such repudiation offered by Resistance Democrats in 2018.

— Ben Domenech

Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town that each individual…

— Susan Orlean

Politics does not end the day of the election.

— Bernie Sanders

I like the fact that most of the cars I see are Detroit-made automobiles. I drive a Mustang and a Chevy pickup…

— Mitt Romney

That's because of everything the public interest and the media interest is focused on: What did Donald Trump know and when did…

— Angus King

I chose as the campaign logo a blue rose, which means 'make possible the impossible.' I think the British with Brexit, then…

— Marine Le Pen

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

— Thomas Jefferson

By the same token, I think news has more and more of a pro bono aspect to all the networks. When we…

— Leslie Moonves

Since nobody upstages Rudolph Giuliani, his will be a Broadway-class show, perhaps his final bravura performance before November 2000, when he hopes…

— Gail Sheehy

[After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive…

— Nancy Astor

The elections would be free and democratic, and any result would have to be accepted.

— Sebastian Kurz

Conventional wisdom holds that the public disproportionately blames Republicans for government shutdowns. The disproportionate election of Republicans to the U.S. Senate following…

— Michael J. Knowles

As if this whole thing isn't confusing enough, election officials announced this week that the alphabet on the ballot will begin with…

— Jay Leno

The general election of 1983 has produced one important result that has passed virtually without comment in the media. It is that,…

— Tony Benn

You cannot duck the difficult issues in the middle of an election campaign.

— Chuka Umunna

It took six weeks of debate in the Senate to get the Arms Embargo Law repealed--and we face other delays during the…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I considered bringing forward information about these surveillance programs prior to the election, but I held off because I believed that [Barack]…

— Edward Snowden

THERE'S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,' he told the voters. 'IF YOU'RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR…

— John Irving

We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.

— Naveen Jain

I've been as consistent as human beings can be.

— Mitt Romney