Electoral Quotes
94 Electoral quotes by 89 unique authors
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The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with…
— Walter Cronkite
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I had a truly horrible dream last night ... [Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Tyson and I] were on our way to a TV studio for a…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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I intend to go right on appointing highly qualified individuals of the highest personal integrity to the bench, individuals who understand the danger of short-circuiting…
— Ronald Reagan
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May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an act as this…
— James Madison
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Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed…
— Ron Fournier
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Some of George W. Bush's friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial. But God told me…
— Al Franken
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Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.
— Ed Gillespie
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
— Jack Kemp
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences,…
— Madeleine M. Kunin
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Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.
— Thomas E. Mann
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As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came…
— James McGreevey
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Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding…
— Angela Merkel
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America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril. While…
— Christine Pelosi
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The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.
— John Podhoretz
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Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is…
— John Podhoretz
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The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the…
— Hugh Sidey
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The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one…
— Eliot Spitzer
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There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
— Paul Wellstone
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I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation of powers, 'cause…
— George Will
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In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida…
— Juan Williams
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Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the…
— Howard Rheingold
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It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it,…
— Mark Helprin
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If Democrats start consistently winning Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, the electoral outlook for Republicans in the future is mighty bleak.
— Mark McKinnon
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The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.
— Unknown Author
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No one likes the Electoral College, expect perhaps those who were elected because of it. No one likes gerrymandering, except those doing the gerrymandering. No…
— Kevin Bleyer
Who Wrote These Electoral Quotes
89 authors contributed a total of 94 Electoral Quotes, led by these top contributors: