- Ensure
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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
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.
- Exaggerating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given that Mr. Kerry is clearly exaggerating what happened to minority voters in the 2000 election in Florida, maybe we should wait for him to provide evidence of what he is alleging in 2004.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
As son of a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our 21st-century world is an incredibly dangerous one. Between brutal civil wars, violent extremism, spreading autocracy, rising inequality, territorial expansionism, election interference, and nuclear proliferation, our policymakers have their hands full.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way to get people civically engaged, not just during the election but throughout the year, is to tap into Facebook and let them do it with their friends.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not supporting Jeremy Corbyn. If we are to have an election I would fight as Lib Dem leader as the party of remain that hasn't equivocated on this like Jeremy Corbyn.
- Elevation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Narendra Modi is a bubble. After elevation in his party, his first test was the Karnataka election. He failed miserably in that.
- Discussed
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the fake news conversation came right after the 2016 election, but it's something that had been discussed before Donald Trump ever ran for president.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
This election isn't about Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. It's about you. The other guys write $10 million checks and make $10,000 bets. But we've bet this campaign on you.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
So to that extent that was a very sharp reminder a few months out from the election that we weren't performing in the eyes of the public to the level that they wanted if they were going to re-elect us. So we went out and were much more upfront on issues.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the election of George McGovern in 1972 as a peace candidate - I should say his election to the nomination of the Democratic Party - the party changed the rules to steeply tilt that playing field, creating superdelegates and Super Tuesdays that make it very hard for a grassroots campaign to prevail.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historians and scholars have access to every issue of every newspaper and journal written during the civil rights struggle of the 1960s but can access only a comparative handful of papers covering the election of Barack Obama.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.
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.