Quotes of: Presidential-election Keyword

The world of TV debates is antiquated. What looked smart and modern in 1960, with Kennedy versus Nixon, looks quaint and over-rehearsed between Obama and Romney. We need a new format; even if we have the same moderators and candidates, there needs to...

Ruzwana Bashir

Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen ...

Thomas Frank

New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understa...

Daniel Hannan

I, as prime minister, never went to Washington. Certainly never went to a presidential ranch. I hate to say this, but I wasn't going to be the pilot fish to the shark, whereas Australia quite happily bobbed along like a happy little pilot fish with a...

David Lange

I went from being a senator, a young senator, to being considered for vice president, running for president, being a vice presidential candidate, and becoming a national public figure. All of which fed a self-focus, an egotism, a narcissism that lead...

John Edwards

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

H. L. Mencken

I didn't really feel 100 percent comfortable until we started working on the 2004 election.

Rob Corddry

Maoists want a directly elected president, but this will give birth to an autocrat.

Sushil Koirala

Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks.

Ted Kulongoski

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

Thomas E. Mann

If you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin.

Katherine Harris

It is a high honour to be elected Prime Minister of Australia.

Kevin Rudd

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

Lewis Black

To finalize, the purpose of an election is to hear the will of the people, not to fabricate votes.

Lincoln Diaz-Balart

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

Mario Vargas Llosa

I lost my election because of my campaign, not because of what anyone else did.

Mitt Romney

I believe we will elect a new President in 2012.

Newt Gingrich

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

Dan Quayle

A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.

Jack Layton

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Spiro T. Agnew

We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.

Zoe Lofgren