Election Quotes - Page 9

The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our 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.

I really think I am a nice person. [But] this is not going to be an election on niceness. This is going to be an election on competence.

Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.

The United Nations has no business in our elections.

How about this John Kerry controversy? So he's out there in California, tells some kind of joke and it backfires. He's saying he botched the joke. ... This guy can lose elections he's not even in.

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

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

On Election Day, Ralph Nader will appear on the presidential ballot in only 45 states. Yeah, Nader said, this is really disappointing, I wanted to embarrass myself in all 50 states. That was the plan.

I can't do that to myself...

Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

Part of my dogsbody job during the 1983 election was choosing Mum's missile-proof clothes. They had to be disposable.

This election ain't no stinkin' TV show.

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.

It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election.

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

I don't look at my pension. It's not as big as yours so it doesn't take as long.

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

You didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

As the ranking member of the Rules Committee, I'm particularly concerned about ensuring our elections are safe from foreign interference.

Congress wants to keep "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. Washington politicians are united in their faith. Most worship the same reelection.

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

Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and contrary to men's preservation, and the punishment conducing to the preservation of the rest, inasmuch as to punish those that do voluntary hurt, and none else, frameth and maketh men's wills such as men would have them.

It is positive that the change in Finland means a rush in the elections and not in the streets.

If poor people can vote, one of the main things they vote for is to redistribute money to themselves.