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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.

Bill Clinton was a brilliant politician. If President Obama was a brilliant politician he would have come out before the election and said 'Hey we're gonna cut taxes, grow the economy, what I'm doing's not working, and we're gonna change...

Quotes by Dan Bongino

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.

Quotes by Corrine Brown

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...

Quotes by Corey Lewandowski

Poll workers put in very long hours on election day.

Quotes by Corey Lewandowski

You always want to have a mix of conservatives and liberals on a panel, especially on election night.

Quotes by Constance Zimmer

The 2014 election was not a repudiation of government in general.

Quotes by Chuck Schumer

You cannot duck the difficult issues in the middle of an election campaign.

Quotes by Chuka Umunna

After President Obama's election, efforts at othering Obama quickly became about smearing his non-partisan allies and ambassadors.

Quotes by Christine Pelosi

The conventional wisdom in an election year is that nothing will get done until after the election.

Quotes by Christine Todd Whitman

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...

Quotes by Chris Sacca

Anytime somebody loses a presidential election, there are lots of explanations.

Quotes by Chris Murphy

'Election' made zero money at the box office, but it started my career.

Quotes by Chris Klein

The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party.

Quotes by Chen Shui-bian

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.

Quotes by Chen Shui-bian

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Quotes by Chelsea Clinton

That 1983 general election contained the telltale seeds of eventual Scottish Tory self-destruction.

Quotes by Charles Kennedy

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.

Quotes by Charles Glover Barkla

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.

Quotes by Charles A. Beard

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...

Quotes by Celeste Ng

Those who care about constitutional development should look beyond universal suffrage for the chief executive election and turn their sights to universal suffrage for Legco as well.

Quotes by Carrie Lam

Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of election quotes are gathered here?
A mix of viewpoints on U.S. elections — from sharp criticism of a specific campaign slogan and gun-policy debates around election season, to a more constitutional question about what it would take to legitimately "undo" an election result, plus a wry, older-style quip about the word "Americanism" being useful for winning votes.
Do these quotes represent the site's own opinion on any candidate or policy?
No — they're reported as attributed statements exactly as said, including quotes critical of a named president's campaign message and of gun-control advocacy; presenting a quote here isn't an endorsement of the view it expresses.
What does the quote about undoing an election mean?
It's making a narrow, constitutional point — that overturning an election result would require behavior that meets the legal standard for "subverting and threatening" the system of government, not a casual process.
Why would someone quote "I don't know much about Americanism"?
It's a dry, self-aware jab at how political buzzwords get used more for their rhetorical punch in a campaign than for any precise meaning — a comment on election-season language itself.
Is there a Hindi version of election-themed content on this site?
Yes, Shayari covers the same general subject in original Hindi verse; for related word-variant quote pages, see Elections or Election Day.

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.