Top 1200 Political Election Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. It is not for the sake of a good public administration that it is required, but for the security in the pursuit of the highest objects of civil society, and of private life.

If you were to ask any children of any politician, when you've been part of a political life, you are not on the sidelines. There is no such thing as a member of a political family who is only a spectator. You see the wheeling and the dealing. That doesn't intimidate me. I'll do a little of that myself, on behalf of my constituents.

Women aren't sitting back after they win an election. They're leaning in!

If Marxist theory dictates that the personal is always political, the rebuttal of both 'The Americans' and 'House of Cards' is that the political is always personal: the sum total of our collective needs and desires, vows and betrayals.

Words have always been political, and that means that, in many people's minds, dictionaries are political. Because that's what dictionaries do: they do words.

Here we will have possibly a bunch of tax dodgers deciding the election.

Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.

Mail-in voting is a proven and significant threat to election integrity.

The election of Hoover...should result in continued prosperity for 1929.

I believe I would be a very strong general-election candidate.

I think that sexual pleasure and the weird color of the sky after a storm or the stream of tail lights across the bridge or the way silence can thin or thicken before music starts - all these things have to be harnessed by the political. The libidinal has to be harnessed by the political.

I appeal to Muslims and Hindus, beware of the election plans of the BJP.

My election to the position of president is the symbol of the greatness of Indian democracy.

It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election.

Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think we need to start making activists celebrities rather than trying to make celebrities to be activists.

Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.

No one expects the tone of an election to be mild-mannered, least of all a presidential one.

For a politician, the long term is between now and the next election.

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.

I will totally accept the results [of Election 2016] if I win.

Of course I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls

The political outcome that is desired is one which makes any government sensitive to the pulse of the people and their welfare, allowing any ruling party to govern without gridlock while promoting the political openness that so many of us yearn for in Singapore.

I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political opposition. In my view church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact. Religion and politics should not be mingled.

A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.

In the final analysis it doesn't really matter what the political system is...We don't need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.

One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.

On the political as on the economic front it's important not to fall into the "not as bad as" trap. High unemployment isn't O.K. just because it hasn't hit 1933 levels; ominous political trends shouldn’t be dismissed just because there’s no Hitler in sight.

All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.

The security and integrity of our election system remains paramount.

To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We don't know who they are. We cannot react without reasoning." So it is a way to keep people far from the political environment.

It is important to understand that there are two separate battles taking place in Iraq: there is the political rift between the Sunnis, Shia and the Kurds and there is a foreign extremist group - ISIS - trying to take advantage of the political environment through violence. If the Iraqis can resolve their political differences, it will be far more difficult for ISIS to thrive. Moving forward, we should continue to evaluate additional steps to help combat ISIS as we see what the Iraqis are willing to do politically, but we must also firmly guard against mission creep.

I'll tell you the truth, even in an election year, and that's what people are ready for.

Mr. Trump had no political or military experience, the traditional routes to high political office. Virtually his only qualification was his business career, and a checkered one at that, considering his own brush with personal bankruptcy.

The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.

And when a few noncitizens vote, those can swing a close election.

Voter suppression is at the very core of the Trump re-election strategy.

Anytime somebody loses a presidential election, there are lots of explanations.

The only true allegiance a politician has is to his own re-election.

Election night is the easiest time to act like a grownup.

I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.

Young people - motivating them in any election is hard to do.

That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

Whoever entered the political realm had first to be ready to risk his life, and too great a love for life obstructed freedom, was a sure sign of slavishness. Courage therefore became the political virtue par excellence.

I am a strong believer that modern political life must rediscover a sense for symbolism. We need to develop a kind of political heroism. I don't mean that I want to play the hero. But we need to be amenable once again to creating grand narratives.

Thus far, both political parties have been remarkably clever and effective in concealing this new reality. In fact, the two parties have formed an innovative kind of cartel—an arrangement I have termed America’s political duopoly. Both parties lie about the fact that they have each sold out to the financial sector and the wealthy. So far both have largely gotten away with the lie, helped in part by the enormous amount of money now spent on deceptive, manipulative political advertising.

I have never lost an election yet. I am a winner. Let's just say that.

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.

I don't write political music. Political music is immediately obsolete.

The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics.

I feel bad looking at the politics surrounding a presidential election.

You cannot duck the difficult issues in the middle of an election campaign.

For 'Gender Studies,' I wrote that story in May and June of 2016. People have said to me, 'Oh, it's a political allegory,' and I think, 'Sure.' The political stuff is definitely there. But that's why I like fiction; there can be lots of different things going on, and it's all intertwined, and you can't separate out what's in what category.

I believe most of the public should be involved in the election of the leadership.

It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the means of our political regeneration.

The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making fools of themselves, formulating political opinions when they might not be as informed as they might be, but that they retreat and leave politics to the professionals.

Having an election with only one candidate running is impossible. This is not a democracy.

All films are political, whether they mean to be or not. Star Wars is political. As soon as you have conflict, which is the key to most films, you have politics. It's just that some are more artful with the handling of politics than others.

I think religion played a huge part in Bush's re-election.