Top 342 Electoral Quotes & Sayings

Early voting is a vital component of the electoral landscape in Ohio.

The electoral calendar is set in stone, by law.

If the Democrats want to make an efficacy or merit-based argument with respect to the Electoral College, then by all means make it. It ought to be based in history and fact not fanciful revisionist history, and it should be made not just during an election year because of discontent with the electoral outcome.

I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.

Democracy is about electoral competition.

I think it is a cornerstone of our electoral system that you raise electoral funds for elections but that doesn't mean that therefore the implication can be made that the recipients are incapable of transacting their interests and their duties towards people any differently.

I ran for the electoral college. I didn't run for the popular vote.

Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College. The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low and voters lacked information about out-of-state figures, which is clearly no longer the case.

The Left is not a major electoral force in many states; in some, we are practically not there.

The opportunism of electoral politics makes people lie to each other.

That's what I'm doing here, throw out New York and California, Donald Trump wins the popular vote by nearly three million votes. But you can't throw out New York and California. This is exactly why we have the Electoral College. Had there been no Electoral College and had the election be defined by the popular vote, I guarantee you that the two states where the candidates would have been all the time are New York and California. There would have been some time in Texas and they would have ignored the vast majority of people in the country.

Even without voting, illegal aliens do affect who gets elected president, and that's since the Electoral College elects the president, and the states are given 80% of their electoral votes based on their population, whether they include illegals or not, is the assessment that that is how they affect elections.

Electoral turnout is falling among the young, and political apathy is on the rise.

It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system.

The Electoral College has been with us since the first days of America.

If you work through the existing structures you are going to be corrupted. By working through political system that poisons the atmosphere, even the progressive organizations, you can see it even nowadays in the US, where people on the "Left" are all caught in the electoral campaign and get into fierce arguments about should we support this third party candidate or that third party candidate. This is a sort of little piece of evidence that suggests that when you get into working through electoral politics you begin to corrupt your ideals.

Most people don't understand the Electoral College; they don't know why it exists.

I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law.

Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.

It's the Democrat Party that is destroying the integrity of the American electoral system. It's not Vladimir Putin. It's not Dmitry Medvedev. It's the Democrat Party, which has sought to destroy the integrity of the American electoral system, all because they're a bunch of spoilsports who lost the election.

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.

I ask the GOP leaders also to stand up for the integrity of the American electoral process.

The folks that are suggesting Occupy move to electoral politics are ignoring history, ignoring what actually creates change. People get involved in electoral politics because they think there is no movement that can create change.

...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is a gross violation of the cherished value of political equality. At the same time, it does not protect the interests of small states or racial minorities, nor does it serve as a bastion of federalism. Instead the Electoral College distorts the presidential campaign so that candidates ignore most small states - and many large ones - and pay little attention to minorities.

Russia is an aggressive revisionist power. And they are working - there's evidence they're working to interfere not just in our electoral process, but the electoral processes of Europeans with the same toolkit - money, fake news, propaganda, and what those Soviets used to call aktivniye meropriyatiya, active measures. This is serious.

The Electoral College protects state sovereignty. It actually is one of the most brilliantly conceived electoral mechanisms ever.

My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.

I never expected the movement against globalization and corporate rule to mushroom as quickly as it has, either. And right now the strongest electoral arm of that movement is the Green Party. I try to stress to people cynical about voting that the Greens are the most effective electoral arm of the so-called Spirit of Seattle, and it's great fun to cause trouble in the streets, but that's not going to accomplish much without insurrection in the voting booth at the same time.

I put it out before the American people, got 306 electoral college votes…270 which you need, that was laughable. We got 306 because people came out and voted like they’ve never seen before so that’s the way it goes. I guess it was the biggest electoral college win since Ronald Reagan.

Donald Trump is obviously the most pro-gay candidate in American electoral history.

I had a truly horrible dream last night ... [Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Tyson and I] were on our way to a TV studio for a debate about his long-time working friendship with the powerful Bush family from Texas and how it might affect the next Bush presidency when The Terminator seizes power in Sacramento and tries to hand over the state's 54 electoral votes by election day in 2004. That is the basic plan behind Schwarzenegger running. He doesn't want to be Governor, he just wants the electoral votes to go to Bush this time.

This man [ Donald Trump] won in an electoral landslide.

Election funding is one of the biggest fault lines in our electoral system.

I am an electoral reformer and an ex-Lib Dem.

I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.

I don't think it's principled to give up on electoral victory to make ourselves feel good.

Electoral reforms are necessary if India has to be rid of black money.

All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States.

The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.

When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.

Democratic socialism is not only a poor electoral strategy - it's a disastrous governing model.

Language has historically stood as a barrier for some voters seeking to participate in the electoral process.

I realise that in an electoral campaign, you don't want to antagonise large groups which are highly motivated.

Donald Trump wasn't vying for the popular vote. He was vying for the Electoral College, as was Hillary Clinton. The only difference is he got over 300 electoral votes, and she did not.

No single solution or actor can deal with the complex and interrelated challenges to electoral integrity arising from manipulated data, hate speech, and fake news. These phenomena are not new; they have been part of electoral cycles since the advent of democracy.

The Electoral College is provided for in Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution. More space in the Constitution is devoted to laying out the Electoral College than to any other concept in the document.

I think I've had my fill of electoral law.

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

Fed and electoral college could use some tinkering, but they are not the source of the problems.

There is a route to the presidency in this country, and it's called the Electoral College, and both candidates base their campaigns on winning the Electoral College, not the popular vote. And in that pursuit, Donald Trump won in a landslide or near landslide. And in that pursuit, Barack Obama and his agenda was repudiated. And not just this year. In the 2010 midterms, the 2014 midterms, and this election.

This is all very interesting, but Donald Trump won in an electoral landslide that had nothing to do with the Russians.

The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.

Sometimes in politics, you get a wallop in the electoral process.

The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

As much as progressives hate the Electoral College - and we can argue its flaws all day long - in 2020, the Electoral College is the only game in town. There's not going to be some miracle where it's not the rule book. The winner of the Electoral College is president. Doesn't matter how many popular votes you get.

Trump's lawyers are right that if a president does what he honestly thinks is simultaneously in his personal electoral and the national interests, that's not impeachable, in the following sense: If a president cuts taxes because he thinks it will get him reelected and it will create jobs, that's fine. That's ordinary electoral politics.

In the nineties, the PT had wrongly decided to attribute its electoral failures to its virtues.

The Electoral College is justified and right.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.