278 Elections Quotes for You to Enjoy

Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy. Robert Kennedy

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Voting is how we participate in a civic society - be it for president, be it for a municipal election. It's the way we teach our children - in school elections - how to be citizens, and the importance of their voice. Loretta Lynch

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Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders. Thomas Sowell

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

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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect. Gael Garcia Bernal

There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't count the votes right, and so on. That's all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don't take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term 'election.' Noam Chomsky

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Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are. Elliott Abrams

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In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran's theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules. Elliott Abrams

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television. Noam Chomsky

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Elections aren't about records, they're about plans and choices. David Cameron

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I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.' Nancy Pelosi

It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes. Nicola Sturgeon

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We may like to think politics is a battle of ideas and that the best idea wins out. But that's not true in most elections. Most elections are about the worst ideas losing, not the best ideas winning. Chuck Todd

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

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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse. Ralph Nader

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What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us. Mitt Romney

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I kind of resent the idea that the whole world has to be interested in the American elections. Arundhati Roy

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I am contesting elections since 1952, but never did I throw mud. Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections. Benazir Bhutto

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