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Elections Quotes
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All elections revolve around and are often resolved by who raises the most money. That's unfair. I'd like to see that process changed, but it seems once you win and get to Congress, that doesn't happen.
John Murray

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.
Thomas E. Mann

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore Vidal

As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook.
Jennifer Dunn

But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.
Peter DeFazio

Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.
John Bright

Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections.
George Montgomery

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.
Richard Lugar

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.
Ahmed Chalabi

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
Robert Orben

Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks.
Ted Kulongoski

Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.
Anne Campbell

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.
Gerald F. Lieberman

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Franklin P. Adams

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.
Thomas Sowell

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 commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.
Jello Biafra

Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.
Jared Diamond

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
Benazir Bhutto

I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
Benazir Bhutto

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