Quotes of: Elect Keyword

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'

Jessica Mitford

There aren't a whole lot of people out of 300 million who could elected to the Congress.

Jim Moran

The lesson of the Clinton years and of Obama's win of both the nomination and the general election in 2008 is that Democrats need to be as tough as JFK was.

Jon Meacham

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

Joseph Stalin

Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.

Jack Layton

I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government.

Joe Arpaio

The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.

Warren Christopher

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Bernard Baruch

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

George Eliot

Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.

Beth Simone Noveck

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

Aneurin Bevan

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

Ahmed Chalabi

I will accept the results when the election is free and clean. I cannot accept fraud.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.

Arlen Specter

Obliging elected Democrats willingly pander to the radical lefties who elevated them to their throne.

Bob Beauprez

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

Danny Strong

The First Lady is such a fascinating office to hold. You're not elected, but it's very much official. You can see the latitude of power of that office.

Bellamy Young

I was a freshman in college in 1980, the year that Reagan was elected, and I went around badgering people to vote for him.

Woody Harrelson

Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?

Cynthia Payne

There's a lot of work to be done if you're going to run for president or if you're going to run for re-election in a state as big as Florida.

Marco Rubio

The Republican Party needs to, first of all, quit electing people in primaries that have prehistoric notions about women's issues.

Mark McKinnon