Election Quotes · Page 50

Either we win this election or we're going to lose our country, because 4 more years of [Barack] Obama, you can't take it.

— Donald Trump

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Jon Stewart

In the midterm elections, a 102-year-old woman voted for the first time in a U.S. election. Unfortunately, she voted for Woodrow Wilson.

— Conan O'Brien

And what are the Liberals' election talking points, in this age of environmental insecurity and economic anxiety? That Andrew Scheer is scary.

— Neil Macdonald

People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next…

— Tatyana Tolstaya

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul…

— James Wolcott

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

— Corrine Brown

If Russia did interfere in our election - and, by most accounts, they did - then it is imperative for the health…

— Valerie Plame

After the 2012 election, 'independent' becomes the popular choice among new young voters and stays that way with the exception of a…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

I think Donald Trump is going to try as best he can to make sure that he delivers not only to the…

— Barack Obama

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

It's almost a very rough rule of thumb: when Democrats are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around…

— Rick Perlstein

By every measure, John Kennedy's sex life was compulsive and reckless. At one level, it had clear public consequences. Knowledge of Kennedy's…

— Jeff Greenfield

I believe that anyone who wants to stand in a national election should receive a course of psychotherapy. Completing the course should…

— George Monbiot

I sense that conservatives have largely already tuned out to the coming elections, after six years of burgeoning federal spending and inaction…

— Bob Barr

So Americans do want their presidents, by and large, you want them to be people who get things done and have experience.…

— Karl Rove

I believe we can seize this future together, because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. [...] We are greater…

— Barack Obama

That instability is inherent in the nature of popular governments, I think very disputable … A representative democracy, where the right of…

— Alexander Hamilton

I spoke to a blogger. It was election time when we were doing the movie and Hillary Clinton was still in the…

— Rachel McAdams

“None of them were greatly interested in the election except as a national soap opera in which the closeness of the result…

— Mark Haddon

If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They…

— Mark Twain

I am grateful for the support of those who want to see more women in Congress to better represent our country and…

— Martha McSally

Good poems do a lot of things at once. Often, by doing so, they encourage us to acknowledge mixed and incompatible feelings.…

— Stephen Burt

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

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

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

— Lindsey Graham

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

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

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

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

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

— Donald Wuerl

I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the…

— Judy Woodruff

Election results and winning an election is not all about winning the next election or planning to win the next election.

— Roopa Ganguly

I was a candidate in Loughborough in the 2005 election. I had a good result against the sitting Labour MP but not…

— Nicky Morgan

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

— Jessica Lange

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action...

— Gore Vidal

I don't do jokes about elections so that's probably why it went okay for me, except for the crazy people that are…

— Jen Kirkman

The basis of democracy is tolerance to criticism. If you can't face criticism, if you can't accept it, then you cannot guard…

— Narendra Modi