Top 1200 General Elections Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

When you get to a certain level in wrestling, you got to be the ring general, and I've been in wrestling for a long time. And I can be a ring general against anybody.

The beauty of American elections is that anything can happen.

Elections are about the voters who vote in them.

In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.

I am totally pro-non-partisan elections.

The more lines I have, in general, the worse a movie is. It's very rare that I get say great things in fantastic movies. So if you see me as like, number one on a call sheet? In general, that movie is pretty bad.

Since my election as Oklahoma attorney general in 2010, I have been a proud member of a group of federalism-minded state attorneys general who have methodically, indeed relentlessly, worked to restore the proper balance of power between the federal government and the states.

Voter fraud especially matters when elections are close.

In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins.

Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable!

I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.

Voter confidence depends on the clean elections.

My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any given moment one speaks French or English or Swahili or Japanese, but not 'language.

Our elections are free-it's in the results where eventually we pay.

If elections really changed anything, they would be outlawed.

Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

One of the things in my experience about changing parties: There are very few exceptions to the general rule. And the general rule has been, people are going to invite you into the church, but they are not going to make you a deacon.

I'm going to wait for the confirmation hearings. I'm familiar with General [John Francis ] Kelly because of my work on the Armed Services Committee. I think he is a fine general and I want to make sure that he has a handle on some of the complicated issues that are contained within Homeland Security.

You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

I'm concerned about the integrity of American elections.

Crime associated with our border is a serious threat to the general welfare of real citizens, and after all, isn't it the general welfare of citizens that the Constitution calls upon government to promote?

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

Elections aren't just about who votes, but who doesn't vote.

I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.

Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.

In elections, the undecided vote is usually the deciding factor.

The United Nations has no business in our elections.

If a nation wishes, it can have both free elections and slavery.

I married Imran Khan when he was not winning elections.

I don't need anyone's approval for going to elections.

We live in a sea of general ideas, so that's not a novel, since there are so many general ideas. But the moment a particular idea is linked to a character, it's like an engine moves it. Then you have a novel underway.

The internet helps with information exchange in general so it's obviously easier to check out tracks and whatnot from different genres. I think people are a lot more open to music in general because it's being communicated easier.

I'm not afraid of elections. I've won every election I've fought in.

Elections are about choices, and part of what you do is draw that contrast.

This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.

It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present.

The Tories win elections when they lead on economic competence.

General managers - I like to talk about the 'golden gut': general managers that not only can have a sense for the players that are going to perform beyond what people expect and get team chemistry right, but they also have to be able to make trades.

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?

We cannot have foreign governments interceding in our elections.

Elections with integrity are a challenge everywhere, including in the West.

Money cannot be applied to the *general welfare*, otherwise than by an application of it to some *particular* measure conducive to the general welfare. Whenever, therefore, money has been raised by the general authority, and is to be applied to a particular measure, a question arises whether the particular measure be within the enumerated authorities vested in Congress. If it be, the money requisite for it may be applied to it; if it be not, no such application can be made.

Elections are futures markets in stolen property.

Elections aren't just about who votes but who doesn't vote.

The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds of the nation have always had hard luck and a hard time during the year, and this has a calming effect upon their enthusiasm.

My Dad sold automobiles as a general manager of a General Motors automobile dealership. He was a job creator. Everyone of those cars he sold he created a job for somebody on the assembly line.

The Iraqi elections were an important first step.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

Elections in Nigeria Under My Watch Have Been Credible and Transparent

The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone.

I think Finns in general, we are quite calm and I think we're mentally in general quite strong, and we don't mind to be alone. We are lonely wolves, a lot of us.

Elections are not a beauty contest. It is all about tolerance.

The elections are the greatest symbol of participation and political reform.

I think I realized that Dave Barry was funnier than I'll ever be, and he made no attempt to make any actual points. He had a general libertarian point of view, but in general, he just liked to make jokes.

The jackasses at Elections Canada are out of control.

I learned a long time ago not to predict elections.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

I don't believe in the polls. I try to concentrate on the day of elections.