Election Quotes - Page 31

• They [Nicaragua] haven't had elections because they are in a state of seige by the United States. They would have had elections if the U.S. had left them alone. But the U.S. has mounted a full scale war against them. So how can you ask them to behave normally?

  Allen Ginsberg

  War, Nicaragua, United States

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• Greenlight is a bad example of an election process. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could just do away with Greenlight completely, because it was a bottleneck rather than a way for people to communicate choice.

  Gabe Newell

  Election Process, People, Choices

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• I believe that George Bush won the election through the vote of the people and the way our republic is set up. All we did was follow the law in the Department of State.

  Katherine Harris

  Believe, Law, People

  "PrimeTime Exclusive: Katherine Harris Interview" by Rebecca Raphael, abcnews.go.com.

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• I will accept the results when the election is free and clean. I cannot accept fraud.

  Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

  Clean, Accepting, Results

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• Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

  Nate Silver

  Boring, Midterms, Midterm Elections

  "NATE SILVER: As Tempting As It Would Be To 'Drop The Mic' And Leave A Winner, I'll Be Back In 2014 And 2016" by Walter Hickey, www.businessinsider.com. November 14, 2012.

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• In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins.

  Susan Estrich

  Winning, Presidential, Candidates

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• In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Real, Winning, Ideas

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.20, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Still putting out the O'Reilly fires of me being a traitor and using Casey's name dishonorably, my in-laws sent out a press statement disagreeing with me in strong terms; which is totally okay with me, because they barely knew Casey. We have always been on separate sides of the fence politically and I have not spoken to them since the election when they supported the man who is responsible for Casey's death. The thing that matters to me is that our family - Casey's dad and my other 3 kids are on the same side of the fence that I am.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Strong, Dad, Kids

  "Camp Casey: Day 6" by Cindy Sheehan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 12, 2005.

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• How about this John Kerry controversy? So he's out there in California, tells some kind of joke and it backfires. He's saying he botched the joke. ... This guy can lose elections he's not even in.

  David Letterman

  California, Guy, Kind

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• Senator Kerry does not support our troops. If he had won the election, there wouldn't be any troops left in Iraq. President Bush, on the other hand, has given our troops an opportunity to fight without end. That's creating jobs. In fact, the president's policies helped create 104 more job openings last month. Now who's stupid, Senator?

  Stephen Colbert

  Jobs, Stupid, Fighting

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• John Kerry says that he wants to debate President Bush once a month until the election. This could be a risky move for Senator Kerry. If Bush doesn't show up for the debates, John Kerry may end up debating an empty chair. And that could be pretty much a toss up as to which one has the better personality.

  Jay Leno

  Moving, Personality, President

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• It's nine months before the election and Bush's poll numbers have fallen to the exact level that his father's poll numbers were nine months before he lost to Bill Clinton. Today front runner John Kerry said he's not superstitious, but just to be on the safe side, he's going to start f---ing everything that moves.

  Bill Maher

  Father, Moving, Numbers

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• The mystery of God's providence is a most sublime consideration. It is easy to let our reason run away with itself. It is at a loss when it attempts to search into the eternal decrees of election or the entangled mazes and labyrinths in which the divine providence walks. This knowledge is too wonderful for us. Man can be very confident that God exercises the most accurate providence over him and his affairs. Nothing comes to pass without our heavenly Father. No evil comes to pass without his permissive providence, and no good without his ordaining providence to his own ends.

  Ezekiel Hopkins

  Running, Father, Loss

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• Congress will be tempted to wipe their hands of this, go to the Election Day and say 'we've done our part' and that's where groups like ours, Concerned Veterans for America, veterans across the country have to keep the heat on them to say this is just the start. VA is not fixed.

  Pete Hegseth

  Country, Hands, America

  "Records show Obama met just once with Shinseki during VA scandal" by Mike Emanuel, www.foxnews.com. August 7, 2014.

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• Texans for Public Justice, an anti-corruption group based in Texas applauded the indictment. No jury can undo the outcome of Texas 2002 elections, ... but the justice system must punish those who criminally conspire to undermine democracy no matter how powerful they may be. If we are to be a democracy, then powerful politicians cannot flout such laws with impunity.

  Craig McDonald

  Powerful, Texas, Law

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• The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages.

  Frank Zappa

  Dark, Years, Atheism

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• The election of John F Kennedy will lead to the death of a free church and a free state.

  W. A. Criswell

  Scary, Church, States

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• If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Disappointment, People, Fit

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.25, Penguin

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• [If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.

  Abraham Lincoln

  President, Unions, Duty

  Abraham Lincoln (2002). “Conversations With Lincoln”, p.359, Transaction Publishers

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• The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, "Where is the best place to go to?" He was undecided about it. So the minister told him that each place had its advantages--heaven for climate, and hell for society.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Thinking, Two

  Mark Twain (2017). “MARK TWAIN Ultimate Collection: 370+ Titles in One Volume (Illustrated): The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, The £1,000,000 Bank Note, A Horse’s Tale, Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Innocents Abroad, Life on the Mississippi…”, p.8082, e-artnow

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• Constant conflict is actually often good politics. Because the more you can inflame your supporters the more likely they are to show up at election day. And if they're more inflamed than the other side, even if the other side has more people agreeing with it, you'll win, because your crowd will show up.

  William J. Clinton

  Party, Winning, Reality

  "Bill Clinton on shutdown: 'politics is not theology'". William J. Clinton's speech at a convention of the National Community Pharmacists Association in Orlando, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com. October 14, 2013.

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• In my public statements I have earnestly urged that there rested upon government many responsibilities which affect the moral and spiritual welfare of our people. The participation of women in elections has produced a keener realization of the importance of these questions and has contributed to higher national ideals. Moreover, it is through them that our national ideals are ingrained in our children.

  Herbert Hoover

  Children, Women, Responsibility

  "The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover". Book by Herbert Hoover, 1929.

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• A wise man once said, 'Every one of us is given the gift of life, and what a strange gift it is. If it is preserved jealously and selfishly, it impoverishes and saddens. But if it is spent for others, it enriches and beautifies.' My fellow Americans: We can debate policies and programs, but in the end what separates the two parties in this election campaign is whether we use the gift of life for others or only ourselves.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Wise, Party, Men

  Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 19 July 1984 at the Democratic National Convention, San Francisco

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• Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and contrary to men's preservation, and the punishment conducing to the preservation of the rest, inasmuch as to punish those that do voluntary hurt, and none else, frameth and maketh men's wills such as men would have them.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Hurt, Men, Preservation

  Thomas Hobbes (1839). “Of Liberty and Necessity; a treatise, wherein all controversy concerning predestination, election, free will, grace, merits, reprobation, etc. is fully decided and cleared. New edition”, p.18

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• Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Reality, Rights, Texas

  "Ruth Bader Ginsburg Pens Scathing Dissent On Texas Voter ID Law" By Braden Goyette, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2014.

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