Election Quotes · Page 24

For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.

— Glenn Greenwald

Direct elections on the spot to all representative organs, up to the supreme organ, are a better guarantee of the interests of…

— Joseph Stalin

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

— Elisabeth Marbury

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

— Russ Feingold

Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern.

— Dick Morris

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

I'm surprised John Lewis didn't invoke the suppression of voting rights in this election [2016]. I still think it's one of the…

— Katrina vanden Heuvel

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

— Ben Domenech

I don't care what your politics are, but I do suggest you pay attention to the next election and go out and…

— Andrew McMahon

Donald Trump's biggest lie is about the election itself, the integrity of the election. He is alleging a massive conspiracy, thereby creating…

— Brian Stelter

We're doing a bunch of shoots with kids about the election, about politics, about racism. I like to talk about heavy topics…

— Chelsea Handler

It was the Democratic Party, it was the Presidential election. We elected a president [Barack Obama]; we didn't elect a king. So…

— Bill Ayers

People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know…

— Sarah Palin

Just from a political perspective, do you think the president of the United States going into re-election wants gas prices to go…

— Barack Obama

There is something fundamentally wrong about the way we [americans] are moving as a country, when billionaires are able to buy elections…

— Bernie Sanders

We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two…

— Margaret Thatcher

I do say, that the parties [both Democrats and Republicans] are the same. But rather that the differences are not great enough…

— Jill Stein

For decades the G.O.P. has won elections by appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation…

— Paul Krugman

Jeremy Corbyn couldn't have won without Labour changing its leadership election rules in 2014, but which more importantly got rid of the…

— Alex Nunns

African-American women are the most loyal constituency of the Democratic Party, and we need to do more to make sure that we…

— Thomas Perez

I think you first have to get into Kim Jong-un's head, you know, which is he's in a state of paranoia. He's…

— Nikki Haley

I think that our reliance on dynasty is part of the problem here, because dynasty is inherently undemocratic. It's a very entitled…

— Fatima Bhutto

You know, others keep saying that there are too many candidates in the race, and once it gets down to a two-person…

— Cokie Roberts

Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting…

— Noam Chomsky

I think I will be doing very well during the election with evangelicals and with Christians.

— Donald Trump

Russia has used funds to support extreme political parties and entities in the United Kingdom, France, Austria and Germany in order to…

— Tom Suozzi

I do not know what the Democratic Party spent, in toto, on the 2004 election, but what they seem to have gotten…

— Peggy Noonan

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

The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity…

— Alan Keyes

When you lose an election, you don't blink, you don't turn away. You look it right in the eye and say, why…

— Charles Schumer

I'm one of these people that, once you have had your election and you have elected your candidate, let's see what actually…

— Tony Blair

There's been a lot of study of the demographics this year that could decide this election [2016] and a lot of money…

— Michel Martin

I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

— Imran Khan

Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring…

— William J. Clinton

During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my…

— Questlove

The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the…

— Lalu Prasad Yadav

We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in…

— Anonymous

The Democrats were losing elections everywhere, except when Obama was on the ballot - and that is the racial component.

— Rush Limbaugh

It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues…

— Andrew Greeley