Election Quotes · Page 40

Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.

— Barack Obama

I met a guy yesterday, 7 feet tall. Yeah, handsome, great big guy, 7 feet tall! ... I figured he had to…

— Mitt Romney

My father-in-law wanted me to join politics when the Madhya Pradesh election was going on.

— S. Sreesanth

If poor people can vote, one of the main things they vote for is to redistribute money to themselves.

— Scott Aaronson

I think what you've seen from Donald Trump is this whole election cycle, there's been a level of misogyny that has become…

— David Simon

Obama will win the 2012 election, thanks in part to the tech community rallying behind him due to issues like SOPA, visas,…

— John Battelle

Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come…

— David Axelrod

Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out…

— Juan Williams

I will not step down, I will not resign, ... I will work to the end of my term in office under…

— Boris Yeltsin

During their tenure, the elected representatives of the people walk with the gods. And it is only when an election is announced…

— N. Bhaskara Rao

Ivanka was asking her work contacts at the White House to write to her at her private email - the exact offense…

— Stephanie Winston Wolkoff

I just figured, for the most part, mainstream networks stopped using [mistress word]. Those are small brush fires. The election made me…

— Paula Broadwell

My expectation would be that if we can begin discussions soon, shortly after the Iranian elections, we should have a fairly good…

— Barack Obama

I don't try and guess when to get in and out of the market. I have owned stocks consistently since 1942. I…

— Warren Buffett

When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing…

— Molly Ivins

“Election does not exclude anybody from the kingdom of God who wants in. Rather, it includes in God’s kingdom those whose direction…

— Michael Horton

Donald Trump will be the next president, the 45th president of the United States. And it will be up to him to…

— Barack Obama

I think, first and foremost, showing up, making sure that Democrats focus not just on elections, not just on presidential elections, but…

— Tom Vilsack

I spoke with Gerhard Schröder about a lot of things, including foreign policy. Schröder knows how important European policy is to me…

— Martin Schulz

...in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying…

— Will Schwalbe

People already think the court is there to become the final word on controversial political questions. So everybody looks to the Supreme…

— Rush Limbaugh

Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more…

— John Adams

I think Canadians, by and large, during the American election, every time Donald Trump talked about NAFTA, we felt that he was…

— Rick Mercer

During the election people from visible minorities stood as candidates on both the left and the right. And only one African woman…

— Patrick Gaubert

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

— Margaret Thatcher

The people we need to hear from most are the ones who make themselves heard least - except, of course, on Election…

— Bret Stephens

Sometimes the media says, well, this state had an election, it's the end of the campaign. It is not. We have dozens…

— Bernie Sanders

Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we…

— Charles Tillman

After President Obama's election in 2008, there was a widespread hope that it would mark an end to unseemly partisan nastiness.

— Valerie Plame

So you [Nicholas Kristof] have got this new column out, 12 steps for people who say are traumatized by the [ Donald Trump] election.

— Tucker Carlson

So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws…

— Corrine Brown

You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made…

— Noam Chomsky

The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm against very wealthy ­people attempting to or influencing elections. But as long as it's doable I'm going to do it.

— Sheldon Adelson

If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the…

— Vincent Bugliosi

Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that…

— Lindsey Graham

Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for…

— Beth Simone Noveck

The election moment is merely the American public saying, "We'd rather you be President than that guy." That's it.

— Jon Stewart

LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated…

— Ambrose Bierce