Election Quotes

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Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out Democrats in the… — Juan Williams
Remember, the first presidential candidate to reject public financing for both the primary and general election was... Barack Obama, in 2008. He did it, in… — Jeff Greenfield
I remember the day after the general election when Harold Wilson had lost, I remember quite clearly cycling from my house in Hutton along Long… — Philip Hammond
It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, We base all our… — Ronald Reagan
Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods. — Henry Louis Mencken
These office-seekers are a curse to the country; no sooner was my election certain, than I became the prey of hundreds of hungry persistent applicants… — Abraham Lincoln
He is running not for election but for the history books. — Unknown Author
LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he… — Ambrose Bierce
Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a… — Arthur Capper
Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas… — Warren Christopher
The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's… — Warren Christopher
It is not birth only, nor propinquity of blood, that makes a king lawfully to reign above a people professing Christ Jesus and his eternal… — John Knox
It's not all about building police forces and more prisons. This is in a sense an abdication of what the rule of law is and… — George Stamatis
Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in. — Marcelene Cox
I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead… — Benjamin Harrison
If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot,… — Imran Khan
There are elections in which everyone knows that 'the people have spoken' but they don't always know exactly what the people have said. This November's… — Kay Bailey Hutchison
We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio. We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of… — Kenneth Blackwell
Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something… — David Axelrod
This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk… — Danny Glover
I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a… — Jim Bolger
So to that extent that was a very sharp reminder a few months out from the election that we weren't performing in the eyes of… — Jim Bolger
Thirteen years after the end of the Soviet Union, the American press establishment seemed eager to turn Ukraine's protested presidential election on November 21 into… — Stephen Cohen
Both sides know the last election was just the beginning of the next election. It's clear there has been no attempt to have any kind… — David Keene
If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just… — Vincent Bugliosi

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