Elections Quotes

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democrac...

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats d...

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay att...

The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossib...

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge i...

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

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

In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elec...

...the Conservative party found him an embarrassment because he was apt to criticize the party leade...

Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Ya...

Like every thoughtful parent in every age of history, Neil consoled himself, "My generation failed, ...

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thoug...

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire a...

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

I mean what does a democracy depend on? A democracy depends on the individual voter making an intell...

Every time there's elections, we hand out cash. Usually to both sides, but this time the government ...

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

I think it is dangerous to confuse the idea of democracy with elections. Just because you have elect...

It isn't a coincidence that the massacre of Muslims in Gujarat happened after September 11. Gujarat ...

There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter.

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

New Rule: Conservatives have to stop rolling their eyes every time they hear the word "France." Like...

What happens if fully rational politicians compete for the support of irrational voters — specifical...

This historic general election, which showed that the British are well able to distinguish between p...

During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton w...

It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has ...

The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.

In other words if a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. One ca...

When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled...

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you ...

My father once told me that American democracy is a people’s democracy at heart, and that it therefo...

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to...

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes i...

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fo...

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

Whatever else the Florida primary might or might not have proved, it put a definite kink in the Medi...

A totally befuddled voter may look at a Vote for McGovern sign and do just that.

The sleep of reason encourages the elections.