Top 1200 Political Election Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

You want young people to vote, make Election Day a national holiday.

This is America. We don't call an election before we know who won. That, after all, is the job of the Supreme Court.

The political restructuring we pursue in China is aimed at advancing the self-improvement and development of the socialist political system. We will continue to expand people's democracy and build a socialist country under the rule of law in keeping with China's national conditions.

Is there anything more dangerous to the cause of liberty than a politician fixated on re-election?

If Republicans vote in big numbers, we win a statewide election. It's just that simple.

Political scientists after World War II hypothesized that even though the voices of individual Americans counted for little, most people belonged to a variety of interest groups and membership organizations - clubs, associations, political parties, unions - to which politicians were responsive.

The one sure way of participating in the process of nation-building is to vote on the election day.

We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of the population is illiterate, can change the political and social life of the country..it is up to political organization..and not to romantic literature.. to change the present situation.

Trump's election could be a blessing in disguise. This is the opportunity for America to correct itself.

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

That's part of what I tried to describe to my team and supporters after the election, there was a lot of disappointment.

Empirical evidence collected and analyzed by political scientists demonstrates that judicial pensions are the most important factor in a Justice's decision to retire, far more important than the party of the President or which political party has control of the Senate.

And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.

Election security is the first step to having free, fair, and open elections.

There wasn't a Scottish nationalist MP elected at any general election when we were outside the E.U.

The only future Barack Obama is trying to win is his own re-election.

It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism.

I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.

I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.

Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from their role in the early days of collecting and hoarding the world to one of using the collections as an archive for a changing world. This role is not merely scientifically important, but it is also a cultural necessity.

To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.

We happen to live in an era that is incredibly wrapped up in notions of political correctness; everything is seen through the lens of politics. But being political and politically correct is just another way of fighting, another form of power and strategy, an insidious means of manipulation.

I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them for political reasons, but because, as I see it, most interesting things - social, political, emotional - take place there. It's a bottomless well for an author like me.

I knew early on that I wanted to be a reporter, but I didn't know I was a political journalist until my first job in Boston, in the '70s, covering the public school committee at a time when busing was a huge issue. Children's lives were being directly affected by political decisions, and that's when I realized that everything is politics.

The real election meddling is by Facebook and Google and others that are shadow-banning people.

The political objective of universal capitalism is maximum individual autonomy, the separation of political power wielded by the holders of public office from economic power held by citizens, and the broad diffusion of privately owned economic power.

Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.

You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns.

You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.

I think the election of Trump was an expression of what happens in ruling powers as they become alarmed.

I think most Republicans would rather win this election than have transformation.

The Republican establishment is trying to nullify the 2016 election. That's a brutal fact we have to face.

I know how it feels when you're coming into a new situation, that the other guys won the election.

No opposition politician has ever taken responsibility for his or her election failures.

I always go with a classic hair look - sleek and to the side - for election coverage.

We cannot live in a country where losing an election functions as de facto immunity deal.

[People] will be reminded of the integrity of our election systems and the confidence that they deserve to have.

It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election.

I think 9/11 guaranteed that national security is going to be in the forefront of every election.

No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

We do not have many women leaders in the world. But if you look at the current examples, most of those few female leaders that we have today lead their countries under the pressure of difficult political and economic circumstances. They all posses strong personalities and have real political influence on the domestic and international scene.

There was a time, before I was in graduate school, when political philosophy pretty much ceased to exist. The positivists thought there were only two things you could do: conceptual analysis or empirical investigation. Any kind of political theory or even ethical theory was nonsense.

Pay 2 Play vividly tells the story of the threat posed to our political process by big money interests and what we can do to fight back to defend our Republic. This is a must-see movie for anyone who cares about the cause of democracy and the promise of political equality for all.

Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.

The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.

The first thing I remember feeling about the 2016 U.S. election was a kind of speechlessness.

I think The New Yorker's cartoons aren't very political because the people who do the cartoons aren't awfully political people, and they aren't paid to be political. I think editorial cartoonists are. That's what they do. They probably have a great natural interest in politics, and then they are paid to do it, so they sort of have to hunt out these ideas. I admire editorial cartoons, but I'm also sort of happy that I don't do them because I'd hate to have to label things and I'd especially hate, more than anything, to label something Dennis Hastert or Mark Foley.

The aftermath of this extraordinary election [2016] could be just as surprising as the race itself.

Folk who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign.

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Even Jesus Christ cannot conduct a free and fair election in Nigeria.

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

Your political views should be your political views. I believe in business being non-partisan.

What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through.

Voters have a responsibility to make a judgment with whatever facts are available on Election Day.

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

The pressure of the [election] campaign has a wonderful way of revealing your strengths and weaknesses.