Election Quotes

I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.

Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.

Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?

Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.

I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.

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.

It would have been a very, very good thing if the next election after Margaret went we had lost.

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled by the prospect of being one its charter members.

How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me.

I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.

Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.

George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.

During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.

We will not lose this election for lack of money.

Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.

The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy.

To finalize, the purpose of an election is to hear the will of the people, not to fabricate votes.

I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term.

On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all.

I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.

Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

The men and women of our armed forces played an instrumental role in the election process - securing polling sites and providing security - that allowed so many Iraqis the opportunity to vote freely for the first time ever.

I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.

I also want to draw attention to the responsibilities that people have to live up to their election promises and to live up to the votes that were cast by the people of Wales, in the General Election, in the expectation that we would deliver this promise.

As much as the Democrats try to change the subject, this election will be about Barack Obama, period. Mitt's speech last night hit all the right notes, but this fight is not about him. He's just the vessel. Now the question is, does this guy at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. who thinks the private sector is doing fine get another four years?

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

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.