72 Quotes On Elections

In the ever-evolving landscape of politics, elections stand as pivotal moments that shape the future and reflect the collective voice of the people. Capturing the essence of these crucial events, we turn to quotes that inspire, challenge, and shed light on the democratic process. Whether you're seeking insight, wisdom, or perhaps a touch of humor, our curated collection of 72 Quotes On Elections offers a profound exploration into the world of voting, leadership, and civic responsibility. Join us as we delve into these powerful words that continue to resonate with voters and leaders alike, highlighting the timeless significance of electoral participation.

1. “The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” - Douglas Adams

2. “A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.” - Theodore Roosevelt

3. “Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.” - Gore Vidal

4. “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” - Abraham Lincoln

5. “Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.” - herbert marcuse

6. “General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.” - Herbert M Shelton

7. “Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.” - Abraham Lincoln

8. “In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler’s increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.” - Paul Lafargue

9. “When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.” - Thomas L. Friedman

10. “[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.” - Harry S. Truman

11. “The changes that take place when liberal Democrats replace not so liberal or compassionate Republicans (or Democrats) are merely cosmetic. ” - David Dellinger

12. “What [Sarah] Palin so beguilingly represented ... was a form of female power that was utterly digestible to those who had no intellectual or political use for actual women: feminism without the feminists.” - Rebecca Traister

13. “Remember one thing as South Africa prepares to go to the polls this week and the world grapples with the ascendancy of the African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma: South Africa is not Zimbabwe.In South Africa, no one doubts that Wednesday's elections will be free and fair. While there is an unacceptable degree of government corruption, there is no evidence of the wholesale kleptocracy of Robert Mugabe's elite. While there has been the abuse of the organs of state by the ruling ANC, there is not the state terror of Mugabe's Zanu-PF. And while there is a clear left bias to Zuma's ANC, there is no suggestion of the kind of voluntarist experimentation that has brought Zimbabwe to its knees.” - Mark Gevisser

14. “It’s not just tougher out there. It’s become a situation where the contest is how much you can destroy the system, rather than how much you can make it work. It makes no difference if you have a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ after your name. There’s no sense that this is about democracy, and after the election you have to work together, and knit the country together. The people in the game now just think to the first Tuesday in November, and not a day beyond it.” - Peter Hart

15. “Pops added,"you know, they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve.""And if you do, you never get the results you expected," (Katherine) replied.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

16. “Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention."[Shrub Flubs His Dub, The Nation, June 18, 2001]” - Molly Ivins

17. “Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.” - Paul Collier

18. “The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip on each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.” - Hunter S. Thompson

19. “انتخابات مزورة، كل شخص في البلد يعلم انها مزورة، ومع ذلك يعترف بها رسمياً وتحكم بها البلاد، ويعني هذا أن يستقر في ضمير الشعب أن نوابه لصوص سرقوا كراسيهم، وأن وزراءه لصوص سرقوا بالتالي مناصبهم، وأن سلطاته وحكومته مزيفة مزورة، وأن السرقة والتزييف والتضليل مشروعة رسمياً.. ألا يعذر الرجل العادي إذا كفر بالمبادئ والخلق وآمن بالزيف والانتهازية؟” - نجيب محفوظ

20. “[O]nce demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn’t much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on the candidate’s mood.” - George Packer

21. “When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.” - Euripides

22. “Political impotence is finished. Today is the beginning of the orgasm. All the people, I promise you, will feel the orgasm of next year's presidential election.” - Vladimir Zhirinovsky

23. “Every election is determined by the people who show up.” - Larry J. Sabato

24. “To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.” - Aristophanes

25. “To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight - it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil - but to be coldly ripped off over and over again by a bunch of bloodless, second-rate schmoes, schmoes you chose, you elected, is not something anyone will take much pleasure in bragging about.” - Matt Taibbi

26. “Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best” - Otto von Bismarck

27. “It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried and failed to preserve one empire. He failed to preserve his own empire, but succeeded in aggrandizing two much larger ones. He seems to have used crisis after crisis as an excuse to extend his own power. His petulant refusal to relinquish the leadership was the despair of postwar British Conservatives; in my opinion this refusal had to do with his yearning to accomplish something that 'history' had so far denied him—the winning of a democratic election.” - Christopher Hitchens

28. “In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.” - Matt Taibbi

29. “Both groups [of pundits] were critics, and that is the heart of the problem. If you are a pundit, you seem so smart when you are telling the President what he did wrong… This [is] mostly BS.” - Jeffrey A. Miller

30. “Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

31. “Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

32. “I've always found the thousand dollar dinners more unsettling than the twenty-five-thousand dollar ones --- if someone pays the Republican National Committee twenty-five thousand dollars (or, more likely, fifty per couple) to breathe the same air as Charlie for an hour or two, then it's clear the person has money to spare. What breaks my heart is when it's apparent through their accent or attire that a person isn't well off but has scrimped to attend an event with us. We're not worth it! I want to say. You should have paid off your credit-card bill, invested in your grandchild's college fund, taken a vacation to the Ozarks. Instead, in a few weeks, they receive in the mail a photo with one or both of us, signed by an autopen, which they can frame so that we might grin out into their living room for years to come.” - Curtis Sittenfeld

33. “Presidents are not elected anymore; they are hired.” - Michel Templet

34. “If the USA doesn't start learning how to put personal egos aside for the sustainability of a nation, then these "mighty" United States will be no better than the politically divided commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Where progress is slowed because each party thinks any idea from the other party must be stupid or without validity and Independence has become a distant dream squashed by corruption. I suggest politicians go back to kindergarten to learn the basics in decent humanity. The notions of sharing and respect obviously didn't stick the first time.” - Cristina Marrero

35. “One of the most unique aspects among many about the USA is that our transitions of 'power' have almost always been peaceful. This is very unique in all of history and in the world today".” - R. Alan Woods

36. “...la televisión condiciona fuertemente el proceso electoral, ya sea en la elección de los candidatos, bien en su modo de plantear la batalla electoral, o en la forma de ayudar a vencer al vencedor. Además, la televisión condiciona, o puede condicionar, fuertemente el gobierno, es decir, las decisiones del gobierno: lo que un gobierno puede y no puede hacer, o decidir lo que va a hacer.” - Giovanni Sartori

37. “It's an erectoral vote.... it doesn't mean dick.” - Robin Reardon

38. “Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.” - Gene Sharp

39. “If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.” - Juan Cole

40. “Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy, stuck-up and possibly dangerous intellectuals who never sit down to supper in their undershirt no matter how hot the weather gets.” - Russell Baker

41. “People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.” - Otto von Bismark

42. “People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.” - Otto von Bismarck

43. “God takes us through life`s journey. Always nudging our Spirits to go for plus and shun the minus.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

44. “Be positive at all times! Leave out the negatives.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

45. “There is a ladder to Success! Choose to climb it.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

46. “In your emotions: exercise Joy over sadness.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

47. “Ride higher in life unto the higher life.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

48. “Don`t descend to the lowest ebb.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

49. “Don`t turn around in circles for making circles do not equate making progress.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

50. “Forget yesterday, Act on Today and Get a hold on tomorrow.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

51. “Life is beautiful if you take the best option.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

52. “It turns out horrendous when you choose the wrong options.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

53. “There is seed time and harvest, choose to sow at the right time so as to have a bountiful harvest.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

54. “Sow good seeds for a good yield.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

55. “Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

56. “You have been called to a life of blessing, don`t descend to that of curses.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

57. “Build up your faith while starving the fears.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

58. “Avoid conflicts, Embrace cordiality.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

59. “Relish what is good and expedient.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

60. “Eschew evil and it`s machinations.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

61. “Have the best course for all your actions.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

62. “Accept responsibilities for all your actions. Learn from your past and your mistakes.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

63. “Don`t complain, Don`t compromise.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

64. “Always contend for the good!” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

65. “Stand out tall amidst challenges! Dwarf all irrelevant voices.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

66. “Drown those degrading thoughts.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

67. “Shine forth your light before all beings.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

68. “Shun darkness and evil vices for they that embrace them wear off with time!” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

69. “The giver is the blessed! The receiver stands still.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

70. “Desire to impact lives! Change destinies and make dreams come true.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

71. “You are created with a mandate! You have all you need to fulfill it.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

72. “Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you.” - Dennis E. Adonis