Election Quotes

“We can't win a war, but we can win an election.”

“The first election in which all South Africans took part was in April, 1994. There were long queues [lines] of employers and employees, black and white. In the sense of Africans, Coloreds and Indians - when I talk about blacks, I mean those three. Blacks and whites mingled to vote without any hitches. Many people would have expected a great deal of tension, clashes and violence, but it did not occur.”

“I voted for you during your last election.”

“It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them.”

“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”

“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how.”

“President-elect [Donald] Trump won 30 of 50 states, more counties since Ronald Reagan.”

“DNI director [James] Clapper said as much many, many times, that there is no evidence that any outcome of the election was changed.”

“For a person [like John Lewis] that is a champion of voter rights to question whether or not Donald Trump legitimately won an election or not is an incredible position to take five days before an inauguration.”

“This man [ Donald Trump] won in an electoral landslide.”

“I happen to believe that this election year [2016] is...one of the most important elections that we're going to face in a very long time. I know we hear from time to time that every election is important. This one is very, very important.”

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

“October is the cruelest month of any election year, but by then, the pain is so great that even the strong are like jelly and time has lost all meaning for anybody still involved in a political campaign. By that time, even candidates running unopposed have abandoned all hope of victory and live only for the day when they will finally be free to seek vengeance on all those treacherous bastards who once passed themselves off as loyal friends and allies and swore they were only in it because they all shared the same hopes and dreams.”

“Presidents are selected, not elected.”

“[This upset] means that means Donald Trump now has to transition to governance.”

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

“I think there are a lot of factors going into an election. I think the bottom line is - is that Donald Trump is gonna be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America. And it's not necessarily profitable to sort of try to untangle all the different factors that went into it.”

“Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.”

“After my election there was talk of a postracial America. And such a vision, however well intended, was never realistic.”

“My first job is to say thank you to those who voted me. Those who didn't, I'm going to get your vote next time.”

“This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.”