Quotes of: Election-day Keyword

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free

Elective Affinities

Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.

Beth Simone Noveck

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

Pendulum Swing

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

George MacDonald

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

Otto von Bismarck

I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis.

Philip K. Dick

I don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour.

Paul Merton

I'm hearing echoes of Bill Clinton, circa 1996, in President Obama's reelection rhetoric.

Ron Fournier

It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system.

Sheikh Hasina

Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.

Todd Akin

The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.

Lamar Alexander

When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for inspiration.

Lamar Alexander

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.

Lady Bird Johnson

Of course, it is always nice to poll well, but if you don't get representatives elected, then what is the point?

Marta Andreasen

Ah, political physics. Someone wins an election and, poof, they are a candidate for vice president. Ridiculous.

Mark McKinnon

When I yell at my TV, it's usually watching... usually it happens during the election. There's when I'm watching CNN and MSNBC.

Matthew Moy

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

Michael Moore

The Zimbabwean people, like everyone else, have a right to live in freedom and prosperity and to select their leaders through fair and democratic elections.

Mo Ibrahim

It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

Malcolm Wallop

Elective office and public service are obviously something that have long ties with my family, and something I'm definitely interested in.

Joseph P. Kennedy III

When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.

Al Franken