Election Years Quotes

• Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Trust, Country, Witty

  "Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War that is Destroying America". Book by Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel, 2007.

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• A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Angel, Men, Thinking

  Mr. Dooley's Philosophy "Casual Observations" (1900)

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• I know that the politics around trade can be very difficult - especially in an election year.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Election, Difficult

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Winning, Years, People

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

  John Poindexter

  Thinking, Years, Today

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• This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not pipe down. It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Christian, Real, Thinking

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• Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"

  Thomas Sowell

  Years, People, Liberty

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• As we enter this election year, let’s not forget the most important decision anyone can make-choosing Christ.

  Franklin Graham

  Years, Decision, Important

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• I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.

  Eric Holder

  Thinking, Years, Election

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• There was a time in my life when election year was nothing to me, but in 1912, I joined that great army of Americans who drop a stitch in their routine every four years, and give themselves up to backing first a candidate for the nomination and afterwards a nominee.

  Margaret Case Harriman

  Army, Years, Giving

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• I have talked about the deterioration of the atmosphere between Washington and Moscow. It was quite clear that in the year 1980, which at the same time was an election year in America, these negotiations would not go very far, but immediately after the start of the Reagan administration we in Bonn started to try influencing them on the medium-range nuclear weapons negotiations, and we told them that in our view the best outcome would be zero-zero, zero on either side.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Zero, Views, Years

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• Always beware of people offering you one-time money. That only works in an election year. How are you going to permanently pay for education?

  Kinky Friedman

  Offering, Years, People

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• The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.

  Will Rogers

  Government, Years, Three

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• What kind of leader sends congressmen out on a kamikaze mission in an election year and right before a recess? The kind of leader whose followers are diminishing in number.

  Jed Babbin

  Years, Numbers, Leader

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• Most major domestic programs got more money this year, and they're used to reflect the priorities of the upcoming year. One good example is, the Secret Service is getting $268 extra dollars because it's a presidential election year and the agency's going to be under more demands.

  Susan Davis

  Agency, Years, Priorities

  "Here's What You Should Know About The $1.8 Trillion Spending Bill". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 21, 2015.

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• How Obama approaches judicial selection - and how Republicans respond - now becomes an important story and will remain so until the Senate shuts down judicial confirmations, probably in the summer of 2016 if Senate custom in presidential-election years is followed.

  Terry Eastland

  Summer, Years, Presidential

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• I think it was a modest thing I did (Fahrenheit 9/11) ... this is an election year ... I'm not telling them how to vote. I'm saying get information about the issues ... at first there's just silence, then there's 'Yeah!' and then there's 'Boo' ... I have never seen a reaction like this, in all my years of touring ... Clear Channel can't threaten to not play my records because they are not going to play them anyway.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Music, Thinking, Years

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• It's a presidential [election] year [2016], certainly everyone is talking about it, but if the history of the show tells us anything, the Big Brother cast does not usually discuss political issues like that in the house.

  Allison Grodner

  Brother, Talking, Years

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I happen to believe that this election year [2016] is...one of the most important elections that we're going to face in a very long time. I know we hear from time to time that every election is important. This one is very, very important.

  John Lewis

  Believe, Years, Long

  "John Lewis marches on: "Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America"". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 8, 2016.

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• What's interesting is this election year has made the citizen groups off-limits. All these citizen groups? - local, state, national? - that really do things and improve the country, they're never asked to be in these electoral campaign discussions.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Years, Interesting

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• The American people are sick and tired of this ‘lesser evil’ garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do the same evils once they’re in office...

  Roseanne Barr

  Tired, Years, People

  "Roseanne Barr Places 6th In Presidential Election (UPDATED)" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• I do honestly believe the Republicans have reformed and want to do better. But whether they have done it in time to win the election is another thing. The old voter is getting so he wants to be saved before October every election year.

  Will Rogers

  Believe, Winning, Years

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• I feel that this is my first year, that next year is an election year, that the third year is the mid point, and that the fourth year is the last chance I'll have to make a record since the last two years; I'll be a candidate again. Everything I do in those last two years will be posturing for the election. But right now I don't have to do that.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Years, Two

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• Absolutely I'm going to be talking about it, because it's in the zeitgeist and it's happening. It's an election year. It's the biggest election. Every election is a big election, so whenever anybody says that it kinds of grates me, but it's a fiasco. It's turned into a complete circus act, so of course you have to make fun of it, but responsible journalists definitely are being irresponsible. They're giving [Donald Trump] so much air time.

  Chelsea Handler

  Fun, Air, Talking

  Source: variety.com

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• If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election.

  Hamilton Jordan

  Men, Years, September

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