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

  Gerald F. Lieberman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Elections

• Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Elections

• Democracy cannot be practiced just by holding elections. It means the knowledgeable entire people can make their own choice without suppression and restrictions.

  Thein Sein

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections

• Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

  Fatos Nano

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Elections

• Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a ‘shellacking’ in the November 2010 elections. That shellacking was primarily the result of massive policy overreach when he had a Democratic Congress in his pocket.

  John Podhoretz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Elections, Massive

• The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

  Clive Anderson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Another, Keep, Elections

• In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.

  Barney Frank

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Democracies, Elections

• Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters – having held out so long against the incumbent – are by nature looking for change.

  Ron Fournier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Elections, Looking

• We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we’re being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We’ve been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn’t. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It’s the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections

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

  Ted Kulongoski

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Elections

• Like a lot of people, I’m interested in public service and want to do as much as I can to change the direction of this country and will give some consideration to that after midterm elections.

  John Thune

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Elections, Consideration

• When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.

  Elizabeth Joan Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Religious, Leaders, Elections

• Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.

  Eric Alterman

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Global, Elections

• A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Elections

• As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.

  Candy Crowley

  Topics in Country, Opportunity

  Tags in Elections, Speech

• Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it’s a stinking way to create.

  Lillian Florence Hellman

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections, Majorities, Creativity

• Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them unfit for government.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Elections, Men

• The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Elections

• Elections are a good deal like marriages. There’s no accounting for anyone’s taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it’s the same with public officials.

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Elections, Marriage

• Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

  Dick Gregory

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Elections, Relationships, Marriage