Election Day Quotes
102 quotes by 94 authors
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
— Richard Armour
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
— Douglas Adams
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
— Franklin P. Adams
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
— Ambrose Bierce
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
— Otto von Bismarck
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Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
— James Bovard
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
— Winston Churchill
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Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of…
— Henry Clay
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One year ago, the RNC began the Growth and Opportunity Project to help reach new voters, engage diverse communities, and strengthen the party. After having…
— Renee Amoore
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It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times a…
— J. William Fulbright
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The politician is . . . trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a…
— Edward R. Murrow
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The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.
— Learned Hand
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Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House.
— Nancy Pelosi
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Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.
— Barack Obama
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One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.
— Colin Powell
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Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.
— Henry Hazlitt
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We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.
— Jennifer Pahlka
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The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.
— Wael Ghonim
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Take it from me-elections matter.
— Al Gore
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Where you stand should not depend on where you sit.
— Jane Bryant Quinn
Who Wrote These Election Day Quotes
94 authors contributed a total of 102 Election Day Quotes, led by these top contributors: