Quotes and Sayings About Election
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The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.
-- Abhisit Vejjajiva -
A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.
-- Ahmed ChalabiSource : "U.S. Holds to Deadline for Iraq Power Transfer", www.foxnews.com. January 23, 2004.
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I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.
-- Akhmad Kadyrov -
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We have rigged the latest election. 93.5 per cent have voted for Lukashenko. But they say it is not a European outcome. We have made it 86 per cent.
-- Alexander LukashenkoSource : Press conference for Ukrainian journalists, November 2006.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I will accept the results when the election is free and clean. I cannot accept fraud.
-- Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador -
We've given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and how we live our life.
-- Ann Romney -
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I am so mad at the press I could just strangle them!
-- Ann Romney -
Both during the elections and as Prime Minister, I have repeatedly and publicly said that I support the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.
-- Ariel Sharon -
I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.
-- Arlen Specter -
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If I would do another 'Terminator' movie I would have Terminator travel back in time and tell Arnold not to have a special election.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
I love religion but I don't need it for votes.
-- Arvind Kejriwal -
Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better.
-- Atifete Jahjaga -
I will die. The person who succeeds me will also have to die. But elections, you won't have.
-- Augusto Pinochet -
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In any election, it's important that the public perceives that the election is held fairly.
-- Avi Rubin -
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 -
If you've got a business - you didn't build that.
-- Barack Obama -
Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.
-- Barack Obama -
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
-- Barbra Streisand -
The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.
-- Belle BoydSource : Belle Boyd (1865). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.53
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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
-- Benazir Bhutto -
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I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.
-- Benjamin Netanyahu -
You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.
-- Bill JamesSource : "‘Moneyball’ Godfather Bill James Tackles Politics In Super PAC Age" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.
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Our elections are free-it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern -
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Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.
-- Birch Bayh -
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.
-- Bob Beauprez