Election Quotes - page 3

It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of one's voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times a day. As election day approaches, the size of the crowds grows; they are more responsive and more interested; and one derives a certain exhilaration from that which, only a few weeks before, was intensely painful. This is one possible explanation of unlimited debate in the Senate. (J. William Fulbright)
There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. View quote
Henry Louis Gates
We all know that election reform takes time. That's because those who have benefited from the system are the ones who fight hardest to preserve it. So if we're going to succeed, we need an independent coalition of citizens who believe in reform, who believe that our election laws should treat every voter equally, who believe that low levels of competition and participation are not healthy for democracy. The Independence Party is helping to build that coalition and I am happy to join you in doing so. View quote
Michael Bloomberg
Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
If you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things. View quote
Barack Obama
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
I shall not rest until, once again, the destinies of our people and our party are joined together again in victory at the next general election Labour in its rightful place in government again. View quote
Tony Blair
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in a mordant protest written soon after the [1952] election, found the intellectual "in a situation he has not known for a generation.” After twenty years of Democratic rule, during which the intellectual had been in the main understood and respected, business had come back into power, bringing with it "the vulgarization which has been the almost invariable consequence of business supremacy.”. View quote
Richard Hofstadter
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation. View quote
Simon Sinek
People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election. (Tatyana Tolstaya)
One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential. View quote
Bradley Whitford
This election ain't no stinkin' TV show. View quote
Bradley Whitford
In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God. View quote
David Levithan
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election. View quote
Adam Michnik
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation. View quote
James Freeman
The American people are sick and tired of this ‘lesser evil' garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do the same evils once they're in office... View quote
Roseanne Barr
Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.' View quote
Jessica Mitford
I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam. View quote
Imran Khan
So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win. View quote
Imran Khan
One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy. (Imran Khan)
If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience. View quote
Imran Khan
It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system. View quote
Sheikh Hasina
In any election, it's important that the public perceives that the election is held fairly. View quote
Avi Rubin
Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration. View quote
Birch Bayh