Quotes about Elections

“Vote early and vote often.”

“Votes should be weighed not counted.”

“Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.”

“You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”

“Everybody except us is running for governor.”

“I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.”

“Indeed, you won the elections, but I won the count.”

“Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.”

“Get the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.”

“If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.”

“If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.”

“The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.”

“Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?”

“The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.”

“If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.”

“I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.”

“The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.”

“There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.”

“Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.”

“My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.”

“Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.”

“You don't have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected.”

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

“Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.”

“American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.”

“The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.”

“We have a presidential election coming up. And I think the big problem, of course, is that someone will win.”

“There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.”

“Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.”

“Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.”