Election Quotes

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

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.

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.

We hope for the best, if elections are conducted like this all over South Africa we can indeed say we welcome any results and accept them.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.

When it comes to politics and elections, far too many Christians spend more time appealing to family, history and tradition, culture, racial expediency, and personal preference than they do to what the Bible teaches.

There are many refugees, if not more refugees inside the country than outside the country. There is also the question of working to aid us at the present moment when we are campaigning for elections.

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.

No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument - the Incorporated National Will. ... When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American. And nobody will ever say "Heil" to him, nor will they call him "Führer" or "Duce." But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike bleat of "O.K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief! Oh Kaaaay!"

Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isnt that really quite incredible?

I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.

The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

Natural gas is hemispheric; I like to call it hemispheric in nature, because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

Even Jesus Christ cannot conduct a free and fair election in Nigeria.

I will die. The person who succeeds me will also have to die. But elections, you won't have.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

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

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

Oh despise not election! therein lies all your hope, that there is a remnant who shall infallibly be saved.

I am going to make sure that transformation happens, and I will do it in ways you cannot even imagine.

I love religion but I don't need it for votes.