Election Quotes
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After President Obama's election in 2008, there was a widespread hope that it would mark an end to unseemly partisan nastiness.
Valerie Plame
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Statistical impossibility is when you lose election by about four and a half million and you are still dreaming that the results of two small States, if rigged in your favor, could change your fortune.
Sirika Hadi
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If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
Vincent Bugliosi
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Consider this: The United States held its first presidential election in 1789. It marked the first peaceful transfer of executive power between parties in the fourth presidential election in 1801, and it took another 200 years' worth of presidential elections before the courts had to settle an election.
Sam Brownback
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George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around.
Karen DeCrow
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Historically, there hasn't been a significant correlation between gold prices and U.S. elections. Furthermore, history has shown that gold prices tend to fall just before U.S. elections and rise immediately after, and this goes on until the next election.
Fabrizio Moreira
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One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either. That is our belief; that is our creed.
George Meany
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Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
Adam Michnik
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We have a huge struggle for our sense of what a democracy is. We're not living in reality when we think we have some sort of democracy. We're really on the edge. We have two presidents who lost the popular vote but won the election. This is not working.
Louise Erdrich
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We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.
Naveen Jain
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The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in.
Warren Christopher
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If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
Rachel Sklar
