#Elections Quotes

“No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.”

“Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.”

“Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.”

“If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.”

“If you have a radio, the next three months is a good time to have it quit working. All you will hear from now until the 4th of November will be: 'We must get our government out of the hands of predatory wealth.' 'The good people of this great country are burdened to death with taxes. Now what I intend to do is ...' What he intends to do is try and get elected. That's all any of them intend to do. Another one that will hum over the old static every night will be: 'This country has reached a crisis in its national existence.'”

“Andrew Jackson was the first one to think up the idea to promise everybody that if they will vote for you, you will give them an office when you get it, and the more times they vote for you, the bigger the office.”

“A fool and his money are soon elected.”

“If this depression stays with us, the loser Tuesday is going to be the winner.”

“We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.”

“Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise "what they would do if they got in." But the Republicans have to promise "what they would do" and then explain why they haven't already "done it".”

“One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.”

“I make a living off (politicians), so I can't knock 'em. Every time we elect some fellow we think he's terrible and then when we get another one in he's worse. So, I am always in favor of keeping the one we've got and let the other go.”

“I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.”

“Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.”

“The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.”

“Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans”

“More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.”

“The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.”

“There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.”

“I do honestly believe the Republicans have reformed and want to do better. But whether they have done it in time to win the election is another thing. The old voter is getting so he wants to be saved before October every election year.”

“Every guy looks in his pocket and then votes.”

“That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.”

“Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.”

“The government you elect is the government you deserve.”

“The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.”

“On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.”

“Both gangs have been bad sports, so see if at least one can't redeem themselves by offering no alibis, but cooperate with the winner, for no matter which one it is the poor fellow is going to need it.”

“Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered by more people than any single human in politics, and he lost. So there is a doubt just whether talking does you good or harm.”

“I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.”

“And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.”

“Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can't ruin this country even with politics.”

“We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?”

“The trouble with Democrats is that they all want to run for President”

“I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.”

“The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people.”

“I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.”

“Someone once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. That may have been true when he said it, but today taxes are mostly the price we pay so that politicians can play Santa Claus and get reelected.”

“Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.”

“Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.”

“No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.”

“Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.”

“We might have been better off if the question of Obama's patriotism had been raised before he was first elected. Never should we ignore so many red flag warnings again.”

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

“The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.”

“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.”

“It is not because a part of the government is elective, that makes it less a despotism, if the persons so elected, possess afterwards, as a parliament, unlimited powers. Election, in this case, becomes separated from representation, and the candidates are candidates for despotism.”

“I won't hold my opponent's youth and inexperience against him.”

“Yet optimism is in order, because day by day democracy is proving itself to be a not-at-all-fragile flower. From Stettin on the Baltic to Varna on the Black Sea, the regimes planted by totalitarianism have had more than 30 years to establish their legitimacy. But none - not one regime - has yet been able to risk free elections. Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.”

“It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot.”

“Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.”