Election Quotes

This is not an election where we hand out gifts. It is an election where we ask everyone to contribute more.

The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.

It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

I voted for you during your last election.

It'll be my luck that the worst candidate will pick up 'Fly Over States' as his election song. Then I'll be forever linked to that guy, whoever he is!

I didn't have the base I needed to win the election.

The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy.

Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.

Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.

People are what this election is all about.

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.

Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

And I'm very proud of the 50,000 poll workers and election officials who delivered a free and fair election.

And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.

We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.

In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now we inaugurate a new government on a day that transcends any one individual or any one party.

I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term.

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.

These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.

I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.

For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.

I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.

It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.

Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win.

The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.

Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.

The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics.

I didn't really feel 100 percent comfortable until we started working on the 2004 election.

I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

As I get close to my election, I want to spend more time in my district and focus on my reelection.

I have consistently made it very clear that I will vote a straight Democratic ticket, just like I do every election. From the local Constable to the President, I will be voting for every Democrat on the ballot.

To finalize, the purpose of an election is to hear the will of the people, not to fabricate votes.

During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner.

The 2016 presidential election is ripe for the emergence of a game-changing political leader who either dramatically reforms one of the existing parties or mounts an independent bid.

Election night is the easiest time to act like a grownup.

We the people say it loud and clear every Election Day, in high-crime periods as well as peaceful stretches - More of our population needs to be behind bars.

Young people are the key to this election.

Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.

Given that Mr. Kerry is clearly exaggerating what happened to minority voters in the 2000 election in Florida, maybe we should wait for him to provide evidence of what he is alleging in 2004.

Yet the march toward freedom is not without its hazards or its casualties and the threats of violence aimed at Iraqis who participate in the election will be dealt with accordingly.

The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.

It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election.

Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out.

It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed.

The way to get people civically engaged, not just during the election but throughout the year, is to tap into Facebook and let them do it with their friends.

I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly willingness to compromise but we're not going back on the fundamental things we're running on in this campaign.

This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.

I think the main thing we can do, whether you agree or not, I don't think that's the real issue, the real issue is this November and there's an election.

It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system.

This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.

It was a long, difficult summer of 2004. That was a leap year, so several things happened - the Olympics and presidential election. And right in the middle of the election campaign - and I don't think this was an accident - the 9/11 Commission delivers its report.

Ladies and gentlemen, on the occasion of my election I received many letters from people representing all segments of the population and all professions, especially from the younger generation, linking my inauguration with great - far too great - expectations.

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election.

In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.

We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along.

Congress can't take the year off, election or no election.

Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.

We have seven months before the election. Our top priority as fiscal conservatives is to make sure President Obama retires.

I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.

The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.

It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election.

So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.