Election Quotes

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.

It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election.

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.

One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.

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

A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome.

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 don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

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.

I think Social Security should be bipartisan and it should transcend the next election, and you should get the best ideas of the Democrats and of the Republicans, and move forward with the best.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner.

The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day.

If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now we inaugurate a new government on a day that transcends any one individual or any one party.

At the next General Election, voters face a clear choice: deregulation and less interference in everyday life with the Conservatives, or yet more regulation and interference under Mr Blair.

So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker; something that's truly about freedom.

This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.

This is very interesting because the Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there's people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you.