Elections Quotes

391 Elections quotes by 329 unique authors

The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force… — Lord Acton
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. — Franklin P. Adams
The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang… — Roseanne Barr
Where annual elections end where slavery begins. — John Quincy Adams
We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy… — Gael Garcia Bernal
I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan. — Benazir Bhutto
I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections. — Benazir Bhutto
Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county… — Jello Biafra
Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections. — Jello Biafra
These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so… — Michael Bloomberg
Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996. — Todd Akin
Political elections are not life and death. — Rita Mae Brown
I'm tired now of the elections. — Barbara Bush
Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections. — Tony Campolo
I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten… — Tucker Carlson
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. — Winston Churchill
I have won elections and I have lost elections. — Hillary Clinton
Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved… — Eric Alterman
The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a Voice in Elections,… — Benjamin Franklin
We have a ways to go here, but elections have consequences ... I think that our Republican colleagues, the Republican National Party, understands this is… — Bob Menendez
America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whenever any group can vote in a bloc, and decide the outcome of elections, and it fails to do this, then that group is politically… — Malcolm X
There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections. — David Ogilvy

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