Election Quotes

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. (Bill Vaughan)
The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election. View quote
Gerald Ford
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
A politician ... is a man who thinks of the next election; while the statesman thinks of the next generation. View quote
James Freeman Clarke
I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement. View quote
Robert Mugabe
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. View quote
Gore Vidal
The United States brags about its political system, but the [American] President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. View quote
Deng Xiaoping
Win or lose, we go shopping after the election. View quote
Imelda Marcos
I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event. View quote
Benjamin Harrison
An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together. (Gerald Ford)
It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another in either an election or horse race. It's the horse that comes in first at the finish line that counts. View quote
Harry S. Truman
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. View quote
George Eliot
I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election. View quote
Warren G. Harding
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum. View quote
Tony Blair
Some big businessmen did contribute to the Nazi election funds but German capitalism cannot be regarded, on the evidence, as having collectively brought fascism to power in any direct sense. Fascism in Germany was a mass movement brought to power through collusion with a bankrupt but traditional elite, not as the puppet of big business. View quote
Richard Overy
It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day. View quote
Brad Henry
Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq. View quote
Christine Gregoire
And I think within the pages of The Betrayal of America 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. (Vincent Bugliosi)
It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair. View quote
Zalmay Khalilzad
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be dead scared. And I won my bet big-time. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution. View quote
Ron Paul