Election Quotations | Page 2

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

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.

I never ever paid attention to any election.

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

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

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues.

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

If the states and territories do not sign up to fundamental reform, then my message is equally simple: we will take this reform plan to the people at the next election - along with a referendum by or at that same election to give the Australian Government all the power it needs to reform the health system.

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

You cannot win an election without a fight

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. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbours together is still smaller.

It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.

What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.

This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in 'American Idol' than in any US election.

During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase.

The Internet is a cauldron of anger every day, every year, election year or not, with unemployment at 10 percent or at two percent. It isn't exactly a good index of what's happening.

Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.

I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.

We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for it's ridiculous.

It's almost a very rough rule of thumb: when Democrats are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around middle-class fears, Democrats win the election; when Republicans are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around cultural fears, Republicans win the election.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the mayor.

I am running for re-election no matter who runs.

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

If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

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

Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself.

I think George Will is somebody that said recently that the Republicans will not lose, as a Republican, that the Republicans will not win the election. I think it was a terrible statement.

There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion. One, is your convention speech; two, are the base; three, is the selection of your vice president.

The point of an election is to evaluate someone's performance my performance as appointments chair, for example, to which the database that I developed is substantially connected. My performance as appointments chair was rejected by the student body.

We've already begun talking about some things we can do differently next time, but we were really pleased with this election. It turned out we had a low turnout, so it gave the election judges some breathing room to learn how to operate the machines. But all in all, I believe everything went smoothly and well.

We are aiming to increase our vote share across the country. For us this election is really a precursor to the 2009 general election.

We strongly urge Senators from both the Democratic and Republican Party to pass AB 1207 and then for Governor Schwarzenegger to sign it into law. Voters have the right to know whether candidates are willing to agree to refrain from using bias and prejudice as part of their election strategy or whether they intend to resort to the worst kind of election tactics. This legislation will ensure that voters know whether a particular candidate's moral values include running a morally ethical campaign.

We're in a position where we either spend well over $100,000 to conduct our own election or we join with the county and share in the election cost.

We're in a holding pattern waiting for that. We haven't received a decision and the election is right around the corner.

Until the election commission tells me I'm not a candidate, I consider myself a candidate, and I will continue campaigning like I've always campaigned. Obviously if they tell me I'm off the ballot, then I guess I sort of pack things up and fold in the tent.

While many polling stations around the country opened late -- and maintaining the secrecy of the vote was not always achieved -- polling procedures were generally followed by election officials.

Whether it was my first campaign for district attorney in 1993 or my most recent re-election in 2001, your support has been a source of comfort and proved to be critically important to my election victories,

Watch Freddy Ferrer and remember this election; it's not only going to be an election for our city, it's going to be a signal for what happens in the Senate, in the House of Representatives, and it's going to be a signal for change in the country,

We had $100 left on Election night. And a $79 bill at the bar,

We felt it was important that we introduced what will ultimately be part of our election platform. We know that we're a ways from an election, but we just think that Manitobans need to know that there's an alternative out there in terms of making our communities safer.

We believe we will be able to make the necessary changes in advance of Election Day. It's an issue that can be resolved in time.

Unless the public is satisfied that the election process has been done fairly and the winner has won fair and square, there's a real question about how the next president will govern, whoever he is.

Unfortunately, I really don't see much by way of the election in the fall.

Yen buying seems to be stalling after an initial round of optimism about the Sept. 11 election receded.

We express our appreciation to voters who participated in the recent election process. The county committee system can only work effectively with strong producer involvement.

We're home, we're accessible, ... They're the final arbiter on Election Day.... In all reality, they could oust me before I get to the term-limit pledge.

Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.

We have no doubt that the elections in Belarus were not free. There are some 7,000 polling stations in Belarus, but representatives of opposition candidates were allowed to be election commission members at only three stations, which prevented them from monitoring the vote.

What the prime minister doesn't seem to face is the election is either going to occur now or it's going to occur in January, ... We're not going to wait another four months.

We were a very politically active family. My father was one of the first lawyers in South Africa to have a black partner, so I grew up very aware of the struggle going on. Coming from that background, it really gave me chills to have my music be a part of the election of the first black American president.

Remember, at the end of the day [election] campaigns are always about the candidates.

This is America. We don't call an election before we know who won. That, after all, is the job of the Supreme Court.

No politician is perfect. But in every election in your life, there will be one choice that is better than the others. Go out and vote for that one.

Every election, roughly half the population votes Democrat and the other half votes Republican. Now, I understand why the Republicans get one percent of the vote - the richest one percent.That other percent, someone will have to explain to me.

The Senate decided they will be smoke-free. They ordained that all public areas in the Senate are now smoke-free. However, the senators themselves will still be allowed to blow smoke up each other's asses.

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

Therefore, much of what has been written about the Outfit, the 1960 presidential election and other events involving the Kennedy family appears to be historical myth -- which along with other fascinating myths, should not be taken seriously.

This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends-not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution.

And if we were another country being analyzed by America, we would conclude that this country is ripe for stealing elections and for fraud.

It's kind of hard to win most elections on anti-family, immorality, and Satan-worship.

Is Stephen Harper using the imagined fear of widespread security threats to score political points before the next election?

Trustworthiness is the thing that you need the most going to a presidential election. Honest and trustworthy is one of the main questions in any presidential election.

I've been in a lot of elections.

In any election, it's important that the public perceives that the election is held fairly.

We want the election to be canceled and a new vote to be held.

I don't have time. Come back after the election.

There are some pretty good-sized articles, ... We have to be careful because there are changes going on in the clerk's office and they have to prepare the election workers.

The only poll that counts is on Election Day. Until then, Sen. Nelson's going to keep working hard for the people of Florida.

The only poll that counts is on Election Day.

There are five swing states that on Election Day have gay marriage bans on the ballot,

Yesterday the election was a shot across the bow to George Bush,

We didn't think much of that as an election ploy.

The Reagan memorabilia runs the gamut of his life, everything from an original bumper sticker from the 1980 election to magazine covers and T-shirts. It just shows that Reagan had many admirers.

There is clearly the potential for a lack of belief in the value of the local government election process: if people do not believe in it, turnout will be low.

Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

Don't vote, it only encourages them.

This election ain't no stinkin' TV show.

I'm tired now of the elections.

We live in a very strong and robust democracy. This election has been very finely balanced and the result has been a close one.

I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.

We're gonna turn the Iraqi election into a big pageant, ... It'll be huge, as big as my hair.

This proves that opposition's demand for reforms of the caretaker government system and the Election Commission is authentic.

This winning habit will stand the party in good stead as we build towards winning the 20 first-past-the-post seats we need to win the Scottish election in 2007

The problem with every American candidate regarding the presidency, I am not talking only about this campaign or elections, but generally, that they say something during the campaign and they do the opposite after the campaign.

I will die. The person who succeeds me will also have to die. But elections, you won't have.

If I would do another 'Terminator' movie I would have Terminator travel back in time and tell Arnold not to have a special election.

Take it from me-elections matter.

When I made the decision to leave I could have potentially been in an election just two to three days after. Mr. Emerson campaigned as a Liberal and just a few days after the election made the decision to leave.

We will not lose this election for lack of money.

The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.

You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?

The prime minister made a commitment to call an election 30 days after Justice Gomery reports,

The primary security for this referendum and the national election ... will be provided for by Iraqi security forces,

When they want to seek our vote, they know where to reach us. But I don't see most of them here with us. They know we exist when they need to be elected, but after the election they become blind and deaf when it comes to our problems. ... We demand the government to use its power, as one of the greatest nations in the world, to end police brutality, to end racial profiling.