Elections Quotes

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
Winston Churchill

Education, Fighting, Politician

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
Nelson Mandela

America, Ask, United

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

After, Big, Few

What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.
Mitt Romney

Lost, May, Wish

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

Great, Democracy, Place

I have won elections and I have lost elections.
Hillary Clinton

As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.
Ron Paul

Time, Saying, Country

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

Feeling, Find, Reason

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

Women, Men, Vote

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver

Work, Daily, Long

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 or fraud, in carrying elections.
Lord Acton

Evil, Democracy, Rather

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 is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
Gael Garcia Bernal

Change, Democracy, Election

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people.
Jose Saramago

Understand, Difficult, Accepting

I'm tired now of the elections.
Barbara Bush

In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani.
Conan O'Brien

Name, Five, York

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
John Quincy Adams

End, Slavery, Begins

The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
Ralph Nader

Politics, Deep, Democracy

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
Mario Vargas Llosa

Democracy, Maintain, Stake

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

Religion, American, Ways

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.
George McGovern

Negative, Become, Off

Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a 'shellacking' in the November 2010 elections. That shellacking was primarily the result of massive policy overreach when he had a Democratic Congress in his pocket.
John Podhoretz

Lost, Through, Himself

The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people.
Shimon Peres

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.
Peter Singer

Money, Democracy, Small

I've been in a lot of elections.
Arlen Specter

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 expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.
Michael Bloomberg

Legal, Country, Why

Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them.
Ani DiFranco

Humanity, Democracy, Down

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.
Caroline Kennedy

Work, Politics, Women

I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.
Jim DeMint

Through, Two, Pretty

Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change.
Ron Fournier

Change, Nature, Long

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.
Jon Meacham

Last, Won, Despair

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