Election Quotes · Page 34

That 1983 general election contained the telltale seeds of eventual Scottish Tory self-destruction.

— Charles Kennedy

I really think I am a nice person. [But] this is not going to be an election on niceness. This is going…

— Donald Trump

During the historic 2020 presidential election, we saw record participation from voters across our state and country despite the challenges of a…

— Ned Lamont

I think it is its time for the leaders of Africa to say to President Mugabe that the people of Zimbabwe's deserve…

— Raila Odinga

“Because of racism, he can't govern effectively' is not a great argument for re-election.”

— James Taranto

It is not nothing to ask someone holding an election certificate in the United States Senate to provide his or her vote.

— Mike Lee

Remember, the Islamist view of democracy is: one man, one vote, one election, and that's it.

— John Fund

I think it's quite unlikely that I'll be the leader of the Green party going into a future election if it's on…

— Elizabeth May

Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but…

— Marc Morial

But did you know that during the past quarter century, no presidential election has been won by more than ten million ballots…

— Andy Andrews

President Kennedy's election was such an enlargement. It expanded religious freedom to include the highest office in the land. President Kennedy's administration…

— Robert Kennedy

To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance.…

— Edmund Burke

It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no…

— Elliott Abrams

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in…

— Jon Meacham

I still remember how upset I was in the aftermath of President Obama's election, where people in Republican leadership didn't say that,…

— Cory Booker

China and Russia play very different roles. They both are getting involved across the world in all different pockets. Their tentacles are…

— Nikki Haley

I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not chosen me I should never have…

— Charles Spurgeon

Survey data suggest that war has become more unpopular. The majority of the American people now think it was a mistake, in…

— Andrew Greeley

If we think that we can secure our country by just talking tough without acting tough and smart, then we will misunderstand…

— Barack Obama

Long ago I decided that this program has nothing to do, the success of the program depends nothing at all on who…

— Rush Limbaugh

The Russians are succeeding in continuing their dismemberment of Ukraine, they're succeeding in exerting enormous influence in the Middle East, which they…

— John McCain

The importance of elections, transparency, legal procedures, an independent army, and the judicial system is not regarded as highly in China. These…

— Ai Weiwei

The circus doesn't stop. A federal appeals court has postponed the recall election. How stupid are we? Even our recalls get recalled.

— Jay Leno

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

— Walter Lippmann

The conventional wisdom in an election year is that nothing will get done until after the election.

— Christine Todd Whitman

The pressure of the [election] campaign has a wonderful way of revealing your strengths and weaknesses.

— William J. Clinton

I am the elected president of Liberia, not Ellen Sirleaf. They stole my victory, and I am here to say loud and…

— George Weah

In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that…

— Salman Khurshid

I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous…

— Jim DeMint

Soon after the 1997 election, I argued that there was no inverse law of political gravity which said that everything which went…

— Charles Kennedy

For Vladimir Putin to be trying to impact our elections, that - we have to - there has to be - he…

— Claire McCaskill

When [Marco] Rubio won the election, he was a Tea Party darling, he was a Tea Party favorite. What happened? "Gang of…

— Rush Limbaugh

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

— Anonymous

Without the persistence of voters in America getting up to every election, democracy will not flourish.

— David Hogg

I've never seen my filings. I've instructed my campaign to review my filings and check and see if any don't comply with…

— Dan Donovan

What kind of leader sends congressmen out on a kamikaze mission in an election year and right before a recess? The kind…

— Jed Babbin

People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.

— Fatos Nano

DNI director [James] Clapper said as much many, many times, that there is no evidence that any outcome of the election was…

— John Lewis