Election Quotes

Voter: someone smart enough to choose how to be fooled.

~ Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Typically, in politics, more than one horse is owned and managed by the same team in an election. There's always and extra candidate who will slightly mimic the views of their team's opposing horse, to cancel out that person by stealing their votes just so the main horse can win. Elections are puppet shows. Regardless of their rainbow coats and many smiles, the agenda is one and the same.

~ Suzy Kassem

If a politician wins in a dirty way at election, he will sat in position and works with corruption.

~ Bradley B. Dalina

They’re called sock puppets. We create armies of artificial online personas – user accounts that espouse views certain interested parties want espoused. We flood forums, online comment sections, social media. ... It’s amazing what a few people and a little money can accomplish online. Our puppets have turned whole elections. … Everything the public sees is managed. If there’s a valuable brand to protect – whether it’s a person or a dish soap – these fuckers are out there protecting it, shaping the narrative. I mean… who the hell follows dish soap on Twitter? How does anyone believe that shit’s real? (p. 292-294)

~ Daniel Suarez

The answer to the question raised in the title of this essay - Is salvation a matter of divine determination or human responsibility? - is not divine determination or human responsibility. The only thoroughly biblical answer is yes. Scripturally, it is not an 'either-or' but a 'both-and' proposition. Why is this so hard? For one thing, it is logically unsatisfactory and apparently contradictory. Our insatiable appetite for order and answers makes it difficult to admit...that God's ways are not our ways, and leave it at that. (Isaiah 55:9). We don't mind applying this principle in a general, hypothetical way to God's wisdom or methods. But we balk when interferes with our theological system, our obsession with pigeonholing every Bible fact into a neat, orderly arrangement that leaves no questions unanswered. God transcends our logic. He is supra-logical. His thinking, His design, His way, His theology is infinitely above our intellect, beyond the grasp of our comprehension, out of the reach of our clever rationalizations. God is theo-logical. Man is anthropo-logical.

~ Layton Talbert

Every conceivable layer of the election process is completely riddled with vulnerabilities, so yes, hacking elections is easy!

~ James Scott

We unlearn the art of speaking well when we cease to speak with God.

~ John Calvin

I wonder how long it takes for these people we elect to forget who they work for?

~ Dan Groat

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

In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.

~ Francois Hollande

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

~ Otto Von Bismarck

One of the remarkable things about Donald Trump is that he didn't just beat the Progressive establishment - he also beat the Conservative establishment. Two political tribes that dominated Washington for half a century were defeated in the space of one election campaign.

~ Milo Yiannopoulos

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

~ Marcelene Cox

God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.

~ James Dobson

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

~ P. J. O'rourke

Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election Day, they'll be up at five in the morning.

~ Michael Moore

If the elections are a mere fraud, why are terrorists being trained and infiltrated into India at the command of the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency of Pakistan to kill election candidates and to intimidate voters?

~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Every election matters. Anyone that tells you otherwise doesn't understand politics. That said, not every election sends sweeping messages that are easy to discern, but every election provides lessons worth learning.

~ Chuck Todd

In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history.

~ Juan Williams

Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.

~ Simon Sinek

In 2006 it was a horrible election year, and, you know, I lost. But I lost because I continued to be a constant conservative, and the last six years I was someone who was a national figure in the sense that I was the third ranking Republican in leadership and I had just run President Bush's campaign in Pennsylvania.

~ Rick Santorum

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.

~ Marco Rubio

I believe most of the public should be involved in the election of the leadership.

~ Tzipi Livni

I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up.

~ Lucy Powell

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.

~ Fritz Sauckel

One of the reasons this election is so important is because the Supreme Court hangs in the balance. We need to overturn that terrible Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, and then reform our whole campaign finance system.

~ Hillary Clinton

As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.

~ John Harwood

Whatever the long-term legal prospects for same-sex marriage, President Obama's willingness to put the matter front and center in an election year can at least make him a candidate for inclusion in Kennedy's Profiles in Courage.

~ Robert Dallek

Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.

~ P. J. O'rourke

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

~ Joseph Stalin

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

~ Deng Xiaoping

I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.

~ Pervez Musharraf

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

~ Liev Schreiber

Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

~ Roger Ebert

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

~ Gerhard Schroder

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

~ George Bernard Shaw

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

~ James Bovard

If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.

~ Lincoln Steffens

We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.

~ Zoe Lofgren

You have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day.

~ Keith Ellison