Elections Quotes

I supported my friend Congressman Shuler over former Speaker Nancy Pelosi during our party's leadership elections in November citing a need for new leadership.

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.

The Iraqi elections were an important first step.

Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader.

These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.

Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the democratic process and encouraging elections, in spite of the fact that a war was going on in several of these countries.

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.

Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them.

Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks.

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.

I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.

I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person who is representing Europe.

We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.

The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.

The United Nations has no business in our elections.

Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.

We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.

The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in.

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage they've shown in making these elections so successful.

When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote.