Top 1200 Presidential Election Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

History has shown that challenging an incumbent president in the primary almost inevitably leads to defeat in the general election.

The secrecy that shrouded the vote counting by the special election committee cast doubts on the results and lacks transparency.

If you are a Democrat, and you get less than 90% of the black vote, you are going to likely lose your election.

I've certainly honored the two promises I made: Always tell you the truth; never vote with my re-election in mind.

The senate intelligence committee announced it would launch a bipartisan investigation into Russia`s alleged interference in the election.

Socially conservative Republican presidential candidates would do best to unite around policies that will both strengthen marriage and protect religious liberties - rather than fruitlessly trying to tell fellow Americans who they can and can't marry.

The term 'meritocracy' was coined by socialist theoretician Michael Young, who crafted the party's 1945 election manifesto.

In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'

In 2016, Hillary Clinton had so much more money than the Trump campaign, yet, we see who won that election.

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.

The underlying crime in Watergate was a clumsy, third-rate burglary in an election campaign that turned out to be a landslide.

Think of the French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, Ciudadanos in Spain, Nowoczesna in Poland. These are early efforts to reimagine a liberalism which is neither right-wing nor left-wing in the traditional sense.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Communism is a form of government under which every citizen at election time enjoys the privilege of voting Yes.

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

The people we need to hear from most are the ones who make themselves heard least - except, of course, on Election Day.

In creating superdelegates, the Democratic Party recognized the expertise that its top holders of public office have gained by running for office themselves. They are experts at winning. They know the issues. They are in a unique position to evaluate presidential candidates.

I mean Donald Trump is a legitimate president. He won fair and square. He didn't win the election because of Russian interference.

Part of my dogsbody job during the 1983 election was choosing Mum's missile-proof clothes. They had to be disposable.

The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It's perfect.

We know that the Russian's interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.

The point of a presidential campaign is to put the candidate through the ringer: to force him to get banged up by his opponents and the press, and to have to answer the difficult and uncomfortable questions, be investigated, and learn the thrust and parry of political swordplay.

Frankly, what we need to be looking at is whether this election was rigged by Donald Trump and his buddy Vladimir Putin.

The Occupy movement flared and then seemed to fizzle out - until it re-emerged in the form of Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign and in the far-left surge that made Jeremy Corbyn leader of the British Labour Party.

Whether or not the President is sleeping well won't be a factor in his re-election. That will depend on what he does while he is awake.

I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of President Bush.

If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.

As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.

We will see at the end of the day. I don't like to speculate. Our goal in this election is to do better than in the last one.

Yesterday was Election Day. If we have any Democrats in the audience, I'm sorry but you're going to have to give up your seats.

And what are the Liberals' election talking points, in this age of environmental insecurity and economic anxiety? That Andrew Scheer is scary.

There are potential policy consequences to a president who doesn`t believe in our election system and believes that there`s rampant voter fraud.

If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of approval.

I saw a Harry Reid statement saying, there's nothing in the Constitution that says the Senate has to act on any presidential nominee. Well, that was back when President Bush was president and vice versa. So this is not a pretty carrying-on at the moment.

If you stand at an election and put a manifesto in front of people saying you're going to improve health care, you have to stick by that.

I grew up in Orlando, Florida, and I joined the debate team right around the time of the 2000 election.

Playing sports has always been my greatest pleasure. I don't smoke, I hardly drink alcohol. Sports helped get me into the presidential palace. My first position in the union was that of sports secretary.

Every once in a while, an election comes along, and who you are and what you believe gets subsumed in a larger tide. It just happens.

You saw that the other night in the debate, where some people said [Hillary Clinton] made virtually a fool of herself. This is not presidential material, believe me. What they say is false and slanderous in virtually every respect.

Nigel Farage, the leader of the U.K. Independence Party, is a true populist; Senator Bernie Sanders, the former U.S. presidential candidate who campaigned for Hillary Clinton after losing his battle for the Democratic Party's nomination, is not.

We... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about how chins drop with age, and he didn't want to look that way.

The problem with these presidential debates like this is that you can't really prepare for them, because the questions are so individual and personal or even idiosyncratic. Secretary Hillary Clinton has a lot richer and deeper experience in doing these, obviously, than Donald Trump.

Republican presidential hopeful Mike Hucka-BS is attacking actress Natalie Portman for getting pregnant without being married. It could get a little awkward if he runs into Sarah and Bristol Palin at Fox News.

The whole straight talk thing, which John McCain kind of turned into a slogan at one point in one of his presidential campaigns, what that is, is a symptom of somebody who has no time for messing around. Because he`s trying to get stuff done constantly.

Congressman [Mike] Pompeo said he believes the intelligence agencies' claims that Russia hacked the US election.

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.

It's the first time in U.S. history a presidential candidate has not revealed his tax returns, or a president.I think that the poll ratings are in the gutter right now, right? Donald Trump's, even before he's been inugurated.

We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.

If the presidential nominating process were an international sports competition, one would assume that top officials of both parties were taking envelopes of cash from town chairs in Durham and precinct captains in Waterloo.

The Labour Party in 2011 was in an exceptionally bad place. We'd been hammered in an election. We didn't see the scale of it coming.

As one [Jeb] Bush supporter told Politico, you might as well light all of this money [for election compaign] on fire.

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

Libertarian presidential candidate André Marrou's idea is that "government power is opposed to individual liberty." Must we still debate such sophomoric notions?... Besides, liberty, although very important, is not the only value.

Presidential Democratic front-runner Howard Dean admitted to Chris Matthews on the 'Hardball' show that he got out of the draft because of a bad back. He had a curvature of the spine. Apparently it curved too far to the left.

I've been doing politics 30 years. I've never seen an election like this [in 2016]. This is entirely unpredictable.

Hillary Clinton's record in office is dreadful. Her ideas are dreadful. They will make us less safe. So, but there is no way I'm going to vote for a guy who is just totally uninformed, un-presidential as Donald Trump is.

US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed.

Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!