Election Quotes

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Joseph Stalin

Nothing, Everything, Enough

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.
Gore Vidal

Time, Words, Vote

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard Shaw

Bad, Battle, Soul

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
Barack Obama

Politics, Hope, End

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

Government, Democracy, Few

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

Democracy, Few, Corrupt

Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.
Mitt Romney

War, Government, Today

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
H. L. Mencken

Advance, Goods, Stolen

If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.
Barack Obama

Win, Everybody, Shows

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
Orson Welles

Popularity, Duck, Depend

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.
Ron Paul

Humble, Win, Year

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
H. L. Mencken

Faith, Time, Past

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.
Margaret Thatcher

Home, Father, Everything

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.
P. J. O'Rourke

History, Death, Character

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
Joseph Stalin

Decide, Count, Cast

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.
Margaret Thatcher

Home, Small, Learned

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
James Freeman Clarke

Next, Generation, Thinks

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck

War, Lie, Before

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

Vote, American, Idol

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
George Eliot

Peace, Lives, Interest

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
Cal Thomas

Politics, Power, Truth

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.
Claude Pepper

Thinking, Country, Might

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.
Donald Trump

Win, Said, Lose

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.
Marco Rubio

Leadership, Time, Days

Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That's when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers.
Rush Limbaugh

Before, Tell, Worry

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.
Aneurin Bevan

Programme, Tories

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.
Dean Koontz

Movies, Two, Said

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 R. Ford

Forward, Together, Win

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.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Put, Making, Found

Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
Imelda Marcos

Win, After, Lose

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