Election Quotes
- Page 10During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.
Anatoly Chubais
Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.
Jay Leno
The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy.
Richard V. Allen
It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.
Zalmay Khalilzad
Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq.
Christine Gregoire
I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.
Pat Robertson
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
Adam Michnik
Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?
Cynthia Payne
Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.
Patricia Hewitt
I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
Imran Khan
I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
Jack Steinberger
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.
Ron Davies
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?
Howie Carr
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.
Billy Sunday
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.
Rush Limbaugh
It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election.
Matt Gonzalez
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.
Orson Welles
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
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.
Bradley Whitford
A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome.
Leopoldo Lopez
To finalize, the purpose of an election is to hear the will of the people, not to fabricate votes.
Lincoln Diaz-Balart
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.
Jim Bolger
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.
Jim Gerlach
I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.
Birch Bayh