Elections Quotes

I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now.

As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are just some of the victories throughout this embattled country.

What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.

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

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.

The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.

Tony Blair - good thing there are not parliamentary elections in this country.

Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.

When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.

The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people.

I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.

Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

I think the American people have been surprised by the enthusiasm with which the Iraqis have taken to elections and politics.

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections... Now President Bush occupies the White House, but with questionable legitimacy.

A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.

Elections have consequences.

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.

The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our men and women in uniform who helped bring freedom to many who never knew what the word truly meant.

I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials.

The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnational network of terrorists who have tried to prevent this day from happening.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.