Elections Quotations

Our pledge is to hold elections in the year 1985. The form of elections has not yet been determined, but there is a group of representatives of the political parties in Nicaragua who have been traveling around the world studying various electoral alternatives.

Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate discourages the speech that triggers the matching funds.

It was not my wish to come into politics. I was not a public person; I preferred to spend my birthdays with family and friends. But the 2008 elections were fraudulent, so I decided to finance the opposition to make them stronger.

The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.

Elections do have consequences, and those we elect and far too often re-elect have forgotten how government works and for whom they work for, and that an ever growing, power hungry state and federal government are not the answer to the problem, but 80% of the time are the problem.

With super PACs, we've seen voter turnout go up; interest in elections rise; and the number of competitive races increase. The campaigns of 2010 and 2012 have been more issue-oriented than their predecessors, not less.

Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.

Democrats tend to think of elections as cycles. Republicans don't: It's ongoing and constant.

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

The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.

I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.

I reassure all Nigerians and the international community of our firm commitment to free, fair and credible elections. My commitment to free elections and one man, one vote remains unwavering.

Lebanon is restless, Syria got its walking papers, Egypt is scheduling elections with more than one candidate, and even Saudi Arabia, whose rulers are perhaps more terrified of women than rulers anywhere else in the world, allowed limited municipal elections.

History shows one important fact: the results of competitive special elections from Hawaii to New York are poor indicators of broader trends or future general election outcomes.

It is certainly not unrealistic to think we could have elections by mid-year 2004 and when a sovereign government is installed -- my job here will be done.

The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections almost never take place once every four years as stipulated by law. The timetable for a system of research is completely different.

I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely.

I do think that the elections of 2010 and 2012 are going to determine the trajectory of the country. Either we're going to be aspiring and improving opportunities based on freedom and responsibility, or we're going to go down the path that dictates and mandates a dependency on government.

We must correct the problems and inequities in the way we conduct and decide elections in the United States.

Partisanship particularly increased after the 1994 elections and then the appearance of the first unified Republican government since the 1950s.

I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.

What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?

Experience shows us that most people's votes are based on their biases, not on objective reality. Elections are a collective gut reaction. That any good comes of it at all is the miracle of democracy.

When Captain Moussa Dadis Camara came to power, too many thought he would hold to his promise to stand down, introduce democratic elections and restore the rule of law.

I think the age of the modern media campaign has created a new icon, the celebrity-in-chief. Political elections have become wars fought by candidates with opposing values.

The Washington establishment think Republicans win elections by you don't stand for anything, you keep your head down, you don't rock the boat. You know what? Every time we do that, we get clobbered in the polls.

When you think about Twitter and you think what a dumb stupid throwaway technology, and then you have the Iranian elections and it actually saves the day - you can't prejudge technologies now because they have effects you may not have intended.

As a general rule of thumb, Democrats do better in national elections when the year's defining issue is economic fairness, and Republicans do better when the defining issue is national security.

To be honest, I haven't seen much serious budget planning since the Republicans took control of the House after the 2010 elections and grabbed onto the Senate filibuster. It's not the White House's fault that John Boehner couldn't deliver on a bigger deal.

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

There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't count the votes right, and so on. That's all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don't take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term 'election.'

The possibility for error, and the willingness of people to challenge those errors, are both growing every day. And that could have tremendous impact on elections in 2006 and beyond.

We believe that there are more important things on the nation's agenda than the elections, but if the opposition wants that, so be it. We are ready.

There is no point in pushing toward municipal or general elections in Nepal. First, there needs to be a democratic process.

There is no more important issue than the purity of elections in this state, ... And I will tell ... the court that the elections are not pure.

Whether or not the rulers allow me to take part in the elections, I will return home at any cost, not for the reason that I want to become prime minister.... (but because) I owe to the nation to fulfil my pledge I have made to it.

What a judge might order is out of the jurisdiction of an elections office.

What has been made clear to the world and the people of Pakistan is that under the present regime general elections in 2007 cannot be free, fair and transparent.

We believe very strongly that what occurred in this case was intentional, knowing wrongdoing because both the Republican Party and the supervisor of elections knew exactly what they were doing.

We're going to look at the Elections Enforcement Commission, how they operated, what they did with the governor's campaign and that may open facts and information beyond just the Elections Enforcement Commission ? issues such as were they pressured into making a settlement agreement.

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.

(U.S.) President (George W.) Bush's framework will be brought to the government I intend to form after the elections for approval, and I will work with all my strength to make it as broad a unity government as possible,

We refuse to accept the results from these so-called elections. We will not accept (the winners) as representatives of the people and will not allow them to take their positions.

We refuse to accept the results from these so-called elections.

We're hoping he was just misquoted, ... The elections will push through whatever the threat.

We're not a criminal court. We're making decisions for the administration of elections.

We're quite convinced the elections will be held on schedule and will unfold, we hope, with no incidents so that everyone can make their choice democratically and freely.

Ukraine that existed before the elections no longer exists. It has been split up into two sides with absolutely opposite opinions,

With this letter, the government has bowed to the people's demand for holding fair elections.

We've tried to duplicate the problem but haven't been able to. We haven't had problems with the systems in the five elections we've used it, but we're concerned about what caused this.

We have no intention of taking any measures that would harm the population of Belarus if a decision is taken to undertake further restrictive measures. Those measures would be targeted on those who are deemed to be responsible for elections which have been judged not to be free and fair.

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.

Whenever the United States came to Syria asking us for assistance, on issues they wanted our assistance ... we immediately engaged with the United States. This has included our support for the elections in Iraq, our securing the borders. We have done everything possible to secure the borders between Syria and Iraq.

Well before this happened, I was glad the '06 elections weren't being held this summer. The country's in a funk, and it was in a funk before Katrina. But there's a great deal of time for that mood to change.

The referendum on the constitution and the elections at the end of December are the most important aspects of what we're doing now.

We accept only the results of free and fair elections, and we won't accept results of rigged elections. ... We have seen examples of forgery ... we hold the NDP (ruling party) responsible in front of God for forging the elections.

We altered the rotation of units during the January elections, and I think its perfectly plausible we'll do the same thing for these elections.

This will no doubt give protectionists in Congress some ammunition as the mid term elections approach.

We did everything we could to make sure these elections were free and fair and believe that they were.

We decided it would be better to interview the candidates and have them answer the questions instead of doing it ourselves. It just made sense to do it this way because we wanted something different than everyone else. We thought it would be more applicable because the elections are the biggest thing happening in Payson at this time.

YesI would like to. But I really haven't thought too much about it. I love Branford and learning about it. We'll see when the elections comes around. I've learned so much in just a short time.

There is a lot of blame to go around. But on the American side, the conceptual failure that contributed to disaster was the president's belief that democracy and elections solve everything.

The people of Kashmir have rejected those elections.

The population has grown weary of a transitional government that is more concerned with personal enrichment than lifting them out of misery, and they are counting on the ballot box to improve their lot. If the elections go awry, they will turn once again to violence.

What we can be sure of, however, is that if the elections are not free and fair then Zimbabwe will be in the clearest and most flagrant breach of declarations to which they have signed up.

We won the elections, but a huge job comes afterward.

We need certainly to take all the steps we can take to make sure the elections will not be derailed by the violence.

We want to make sure that voters can trust that our elections are fair, especially following the problems that were nationally reported with deceased or fictional names being used to vote in St. Louis. This legislation will help make it easy to vote, but tough to cheat.

We want to make sure that the people of New Orleans have a right to vote and to be active in their city's elections. We will be down in New Orleans on Election Day to make sure that the process is fair and that no one will be left out.

There are only three elections, and they are obviously in very different parts of the state. But we, hopefully, will be able to glean some information from the results of these elections.

There are two chief responsibilities of the Secretary's office. One is to run the elections in the State of Connecticut to make sure they run fairly and efficiently because the Secretary is the chief election official. The Secretary of the State is also the chief business registrar for the State of Connecticut.

Let Rice mind her own business. Palestinian elections are an internal Palestinian matter. We don't interfere in American elections, and we will not accept American or foreign interference in our elections.

Major problems remain in ensuring credible elections. If they're not resolved, the next government's legitimacy will be in question.

Let me first thank President Bush for his concern about Lebanon and the fair and free elections that will happen in May, ... Now President Bush can focus his attention on the really terrible occupation of the Palestinian territories and the occupation of Syrian territories and Lebanese territories by Israel.

Let them hold the elections according to the electoral law they deem suitable, but we will not participate in the government.

Many people in Iraq, that segment of Iraqi opinion, believes that there should be a determined effort to see whether in fact that elections are feasible,

Sharon won't make any concessions to Abbas, but we will hear a lot of positive rhetoric. Sharon now will play for time because obviously elections are what matters to him and he doesn't want to be perceived as giving in to the Arabs.

Security agencies have pledged maximum security for the polls so we are confident that elections will be held smoothly, despite the difficult situation.

So far, the views on the elections in Iraq have been positive,both by the United Nations, as well as other observers.

So far the elections have gone calmly and smoothly, and I hope that they will be completed without incident.

Sihanouk founded a political party and contested the elections himself. He sent thugs and police to break up opposition meetings and kill opposition candidates. Communists and all other oppositions were suppressed. Some oppositionists were executed by the military-the Sihanouk forces made a film of one of these executions and ordered it to be shown in every movie theater.

She has done a good job insofar as she hasn't made any mistakes. But we'll have to see how she does on the really big reforms after the state elections before we can judge if she is doing well in a positive sense, rather than just not making mistakes.

Nobody expected (voter turnout) to be higher than the first round, and historically there's not a lot of turnout for legislative elections in Haiti.

One is tempted to think the fall is on the back of the Gedrman elections given it's not the best of outcomes with such a narrow majority,

Of course, some opposition members who failed in the elections, or some who did not take part in the elections must have something to say. They cannot admit the facts and the realities, but these are the facts and the realities.

Of course a mother is going to be supportive of her sons running for public office.

Now they (the Palestinians) are having elections and then we will see who will become leader after the election but whoever is leader is the person the European Union will be talking to.

Now that elections are over, we expect to receive this convergence program. Hungary has the largest budget deficit in the EU.

Obviously there's an election coming up. We would like it to be free and fair. And a prerequisite of free and fair elections is that you don't beat up opposition candidates or opposition supporters and throw them in jail.

Observer groups whose job it is to asses the quality of elections, including international observer groups have acknowledged these elections were transparent and conducted in accordance with international best practices.

Nobody suspected that 12 months before ... that we could bring down dictatorship and have new elections, ... respected the results.

Pluralism has won today. I believe these elections represent a significant step forward in the process of democratization and pluralization of Bosnia.

Popular web site Softpedia.com picked up our news story and ran with it, ... This was one of the hottest - if not the most talked about - celebrity events of the past several days and as we learned long ago with the Academy Awards and US Presidential Elections - just to name a few - people will bet on these pop and political prop offerings.

Only when we fulfil (our promises) will people vote us back time after time. We go into the local government elections with a plan to make local government work even better than before.

Only then would such elections be able to contribute to the restoration of democracy and political stability.

On the other had, no elections will bring our country to the worst category of not free. I'm sure this is not what the Filipino people want.

one of the most remarkable and important elections in my lifetime.

I wouldn't say that this was the main reason but if elections weren't happening, maybe the decision would have been different.

If we don't pass bond elections for schools and we have overcrowded schools, it's much more difficult for us recruit new jobs for people to live their own American dream,