Election Quote by Alexander Hamilton

Let me be clear: My purpose is not to put Congress in charge of state elections. That's the opposite of what I want.The Constitution…

— Bill Hagerty

If the exercise of power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal government may…

— Alexander Hamilton

The Constitution rightly commits the authority of state elections to state legislatures, not Congress, but Congress must protect the Electoral College and should not…

— Bill Hagerty

If Congress ever had the power to singularly throw out the Electoral College, we would set a dangerous precedent that the ruling class can…

— Nancy Mace

there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of…

— James Madison

No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Russ Feingold

If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.

— Alexander Hamilton

In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can…

— Joseph Story

Election is always to sanctification. Where there is no visible fruit of sanctification, we may be sure there is no election.

— J. C. Ryle

If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in…

— Kevin O'Leary

The federal election statutes are primarily meant to be civil. That doesn't mean that you can't have a criminal violation of the FEC provisions,…

— John Kennedy