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- Nov 07, 2020
Election Quotes
Most Famous Election Quotes of All Time!
Elections bring out strong opinions in this collection, including a pointed critique of a campaign's core messaging measured against founding ideals. It's a reminder that election language is scrutinized closely, a theme also found in our Elections collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
What happens traditionally in a campaign is they will go out to their list once or twice a week to raise money from their fund-raisers, but when a candidate gets to a general election, you get some donor fatigue because they've already maxed out their campaign to give.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poll workers put in very long hours on election day.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
You always want to have a mix of conservatives and liberals on a panel, especially on election night.
- After
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- Nov 07, 2020
After President Obama's election, efforts at othering Obama quickly became about smearing his non-partisan allies and ambassadors.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conventional wisdom in an election year is that nothing will get done until after the election.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think our election proved to us that 'billionaire' is an incredibly magical word in our language in that people just defer to it. Donald Trump is not a billionaire, but he knew it was vital for him to be perceived as one.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The election is over, and even though there are people who have different ideologies and beliefs, from now on we must all embrace each other, creating a harmonious and unified new Taiwan through our love and tolerance.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.
- Eventual
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- Nov 07, 2020
That 1983 general election contained the telltale seeds of eventual Scottish Tory self-destruction.
- Pleasure
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel Prizes for the years 1918 and 1919.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the election of Washington's successor, it became apparent that the country was sharply divided and that the dissatisfaction with Federalist policies was deep and fervent.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began using the #smallacts hashtag on Twitter shortly after the 2016 election as a way to resist. To resist the intolerance growing in our nation, to resist an upcoming administration that I believe threatens to pull us backward and strip rights from those already marginalized.
There's also a sober note that undoing an election requires meeting a real constitutional standard, not just dissatisfaction with the outcome, alongside a lighter jab at how a single evocative word can carry a whole campaign. See our Election Day quotes for more.