Election Quotes

• Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.

  

  George Clooney
  • War
  • Jobs
  • Exes

• If you look at polls, Hillary Clinton is considered the toughest in a field of men. That`s no small victory for her going towards a general election.

  

  Joe Conason
  • Men
  • Small
  • Victory

• Election is always to sanctification. Where there is no visible fruit of sanctification, we may be sure there is no election.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • May
  • Election
  • Fruit

• 'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Green
  • Presidential
  • Environmental

• The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.

  

  Ahmed Chalabi
  • Believe
  • Democracy
  • I Believe

• Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.

  

  Birch Bayh
  • Inspiration
  • Election
  • John Kennedy

• I think Social Security should be bipartisan and it should transcend the next election, and you should get the best ideas of the Democrats and of the Republicans, and move forward with the best.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Best
  • Ideas
  • Election

• What it has done is reaffirm to us we are running the campaign the right way. Grassroots campaigns win elections. That is what we have done and what we will continue to do.

  

  Zack Space
  • Done
  • Way
  • Running

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

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Positive
  • Rights
  • Election

• I think George Mitchell was the right guy for the right time, and many people will note his spectacular foreign policy accomplishments, both in and out of office. I think all would note his devotion to Maine; that was number one. The fact he did work in a bipartisan basis with Bill Cohen. And for me, he helped the first Democratic woman get elected.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• People all over the world now are following our election. And according to a new international poll that just came out, I think this came out a few hours ago, this is true, people in Canada want Barack Obama to be the next U.S. president. That's what they're saying. In Canada, yeah. That makes sense, because Obama has the support of Canada's anti-war voters, as well as Canada's black guy. He is very excited.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • World
  • War

• All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • People
  • Running
  • Couple

• We're all in this together. That's how we campaigned, and that's who we are. This happened because of you. Thank you.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Together
  • Election
  • Who We Are

• Every election I have to hold my nose to vote.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Vote
  • Election
  • Nose

• In the recent Virginia election, the black vote diminished. Now why was that? I think a lot of black folks are wondering what this guy is really going to do, not only for them but for the country. If the country is injured, they will be injured. That may be sinking in.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Vote
  • Injured
  • Sinking

• Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Up
  • Mistakes
  • Back

• The accusation that there was bias in CBS News' reporting of election night results is completely without foundation.

  

  Andrew Heyward
  • Night
  • News
  • Accusation

• I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Character
  • Evil
  • Suspicion

• It was a presidential election year, and as a member of a consortium of Ivy League radio stations, we participated in 'network' coverage of election night.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • Night
  • Presidential
  • League

• When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for inspiration.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Book
  • Inspiration
  • Election

• I said this right after the election - we have to remind ourselves we're on the same team. Vladimir Putin's not on our team.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Team
  • Election
  • Putin

• People are telling you that Tuesday will be the most important election of your lives. That is not true. The most important election of your lives was held on Tuesday, November 7th, 2000. You just didn't know it. Neither did I. What happened on that day led to one man being in the White House these past four years, rather than the other one. Whether he has done enough to keep us safe, even if he should lose on Tuesday, remains to be seen. But the fact remains that George W. Bush was Commander in Chief and President when we needed him the most.

  

  Bill Whittle
  • People
  • True
  • President

• If he wins the general election, he should extend his term for another year and make efforts to build a new LDP.

  

  Yoshiro Mori
  • Election
  • General
  • Wins

• Ukraine is going through a difficult time. There is nothing extraordinary of the resignation of the Ukrainian government ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Difficult
  • Times
  • Ukrainian

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