Top 1200 Election Years Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The Ram Mandir should be built, but it should not be used as an election plank to divide the society and win votes.

I said this right after the election - we have to remind ourselves we're on the same team. Vladimir Putin's not on our team.

It's the details and the human element that makes 'Recount' entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. It's also funny.

Every election cycle there has been some manoeuvre against me, so at some level I am used to it.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year, and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.

It would have been a very, very good thing if the next election after Margaret went we had lost.

I was watching Discovery Channel the other day, and you know that they have come up with a new theory about how dinosaurs was wiped out? It was a midturn election.

I was six years old watching wrestling on TV. I was eight years old watching Ultimate Warrior run to the ring at WrestleMania. I was eighteen years old starting out on a journey in the U.K. wanting to be a professional wrestler.

Raphael painted, Luther preached, Corneille wrote, and Milton sang; and through it all, for four hundred years, the dark captives wound to the sea amid the bleaching bones of the dead: for four hundred years the sharks followed the scurrying ships; for four hundred years America was strewn with the living and dying millions of a transplanted race; for four hundred years Ethiopia stretched forth her hands unto God.

Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?

There are enough people who lost faith in me that it's time to step aside and let there be a new voice for the 6th district in Washington, so I am not going to run for re-election.

I've been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. I'm 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues.

I was so disappointed by the 2012 election that I decided I had to do something. And I thought, 'I have something to offer - I should be able to have a seat at the table.'

Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.

When you lose an election, you don't blink, you don't turn away. You look it right in the eye and say, why did we lose?

If you're talking 100 years, there's no doubt in my mind that all jobs will be gone, including creative ones. And 100 years is not far in the future - some of our children will be alive in 100 years.

My father built a small business from scratch with years and years of sweat equity and many, many weeks away from home. He employed about 50 people, and by the end of his working years, the business was highly successful. He became a millionaire.

As a longtime political operative, I know firsthand how a vote here or a vote there can make a huge difference in a close election.

The dreadful decision in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission was the culmination of the Republican appointees' careful work to open American politics to corporate influence.

When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.

In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us.

Through the repeated hammer blows of defeat, destruction, and deportation, interpreted by the faithful prophets, Israel has to learn that election is not for comfort and security but for suffering and humiliation.

This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.

As politics is not subtraction but addition, those who share views and ideas need to join forces and they have to cooperate with political opponents even after they win an election.

Don't make election popularity largely a matter of which candidate hires the most creative and effective propagandists. Insist that it be, instead, a running conversation with the public.

The central question in this election [2016] is really what kind of country we want to be and what kind of future we'll build together.

A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed to create an efficient Constitution; another twelve years of energy brought a reaction against the government then created; a third period of twelve years was ending in a sweep toward still greater energy; and already a child could calculate the result of a few more such returns.

I wouldn't say it's a done deal yet, by any means. I think there are a lot of people who feel like their lives depend on decisions that are going to be made in this election [2016].

Your damnation is your own election, not God’s.

If the Labour manifesto is a pale shade of austerity, then I believe Labour will be defeated at the next election

politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.

I went on tour with Beyonce when I was in Rich Girl and that was... something I will tell my kids for years and years and years to come. That's like saying, 'I toured with Michael Jackson.' That will be something I will forever cherish.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

I will never contest election in Nigeria. Whenever my husband retires, I will go back home with him.

Our adversaries are trying to undermine our country on a persistent and regular basis, whether it's election season or not.

As you know, it's so important that we always embrace the sanctity of life. One way to do that is to vote pro-life in every election.

After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.

Would the Benjamin Netanyahu of the eve of the election want me to get hurt? Regretfully, I would say so.

It's a consensus that Trump, as the nominee, guarantees the election of Hillary Clinton. I'll guarantee you there's not a single Donald Trump supporter who thinks that.

There is nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine ... been here 4 1/2 billion years. We've been here, what, a 100,000 years, maybe 200,000. And we've only been engaged in heavy industry a little over 200 years. 200 years versus 4 1/2 billion. And we have the conceit to think that somehow we're a threat? The planet isn't going away. We are.

In pre-election polling, momentum is more important than position, and in primary polling, national numbers are useless.

Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

There is one fundamental message that we want to go out from this place to every nook and cranny of our country: There should be no new tax collection without an election.

I have never yet exercised the privilege of voting, but had I been called upon at the last presidential election to do so, I should most certainly have cast my vote for Mr. Clay.

By definition, the person who learns enough to become the nominee is almost certainly the best person for the general election.

I take it that's where you met Todd.' 'Yep. Almost five years ago. Can you believe it?' 'Five years! You and Todd should be the poster couple for the 'Love Waits' campaign.' Christy laughed. 'It didn't seem that long. A lot has happened during those five years. But I do agree that true love is worth the wait. I'd wait another five years for Todd if I had to. He's the only man for me. Ever.

My association with my parents and family will end the day they will ask ticket to contest election or seek ministership.

Its the details and the human element that makes Recount entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. Its also funny.

Just like it would be wrong to have a player referee a game, it's wrong for election officials to participate in federal campaigns.

It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race. It's the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts

It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it.

My goal is not to win a straw poll that doesn't mean something. It's to win the election that means everything for the future of the country.

A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet.

The modern election campaign is created by power in order to convince the realm that all is well, and, further, that its inhabitants are being presented with new information and a clear choice.

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.

Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

Mandela's commitment to democracy was ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power

I don't think anybody can with a straight face say that the Russians did not set out to influence our election, and they did so.