Elections Quotes

Elections Quote of the day

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

You have to be involved during midterm elections, you have to care about what happens at a school board level.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

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 not held in great sections of America.

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.

The people are fed up with corruption and embezzlement. They object to censorship. The first thing that the people of Iran want is free elections.

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

Tomorrow is Election Day. It's what they call the midterm elections, and you can cut the indifference with a knife. It's the day Americans leave work early and pretend to vote.

Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.

I have won elections and I have lost elections.

You can't be too right too soon and win elections.

If a nation wishes, it can have both free elections and slavery.

Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy supposed to be only democracy if you give us a no objection certificate?

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

Forgot to live-tweet the election last night, so I'm post-tweeting today. I'll start as soon as my fingers unclench from their rage fists.

I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.

Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE.

The changes that take place when liberal Democrats replace not so liberal or compassionate Republicans (or Democrats) are merely cosmetic.

Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted.

Leave us to our free election.

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

Conservative presence in the media has not been reflected in elections. Well, maybe the midterm elections of 2010, 2014.

Well I haven't seen any free elections in the Arab world. They may be coming someday, except for in Israel. In Israel, Arabs have a chance to participate in free elections. Nowhere else really.

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans.

We have free elections. Everybody can vote, we fought for that, we brag about that and we know we're going to have a winner and we're going to have a loser.

We need a total ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.

We thought New York City was home to 8 million rats. Turns out, that's a little high. The actual number is 2 million rats. That explains the light turnout for the midterm elections.

In the midterm elections, a 102-year-old woman voted for the first time in a U.S. election. Unfortunately, she voted for Woodrow Wilson.

There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

A totally befuddled voter may look at a Vote for McGovern sign and do just that.

Options abound world over, Options to choose from and be the best.

There is a ladder to Success! Choose to climb it.