Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.
When millions of Americans are tightening their belts, folks have the right to expect their elected officials to do the same.
I entered politics in 1967; since then, continuously, I am getting elected... Fortunately I never lost the elections.
If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.
The move away from writing poetry was gradual. It was a gentle slope into a muddy pond; it was a collection of choices. There was no one thing that took the pen from my hand. Life got in the way. Poetry was an elective. I elected to let it slip into ...
This presidential election will be as electric as an eel—and just as snakelike.
I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.
I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials.
In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress.
The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.
There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.
In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.
I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.
For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.
Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.
The Chief Whip's job is trying to make sure that the Government - and MPs elected as part of the governing party - deliver the promises that they were elected on. That's a healthy part of the democratic process.
We may like to think politics is a battle of ideas and that the best idea wins out. But that's not true in most elections. Most elections are about the worst ideas losing, not the best ideas winning.
Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.
Important state legislative races and statewide elections for offices like Lt. Governor and Attorneys General are often overshadowed by gubernatorial and federal elections.
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
