Elections Quotes

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

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It's a joke. It doesn't enforce the law.

Tony Blair - good thing there are not parliamentary elections in this country.

Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately.

A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.

Elections have consequences.

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

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.

They appear to have had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than we did in our recent federal elections, and we didn't have terrorists threatening to kill our families if we voted.

I'm tired now of the elections.

I have won elections and I have lost elections.

In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.

Elections are rarely perfect.

I've campaigned for people. I've campaigned across the country for people. I have supported people in local elections. I do work with groups and causes. So, I feel like I am a participant and a civically-engaged citizen.

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

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

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

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

Some of the immediate causes of Jack Abramoff's troubles were some Indian elections that went bad for him.

What's the point of elections if everything is already decided?

I don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour.