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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.

Ma Ying-jeou tends to use cross-strait policy as an election tool and a political tool, too, and my position is that we don't use that as a political tool because that is an issue that is critical and essential to...

Quotes by Tsai Ing-wen

Democracy is not just an election, it is our daily life.

Quotes by Tsai Ing-wen

If Latinos stay at home, we determine the outcome of an election.

Quotes by Tony Cardenas

You cannot win an election without a fight.

Quotes by Tony Abbott

I'll tell you the truth, even in an election year, and that's what people are ready for.

Quotes by Tom Cotton

In each and every election, it's your rights, it's your freedoms, it's your interests that are on the ballot.

Quotes by Todd Young

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

Quotes by Timothy Noah

Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself.

Quotes by Timothy Noah

Presidential election campaigns offer a unique opportunity to educate the public and engage in an intelligent dialogue on issues of national importance.

Quotes by Thomas Hauser

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

Quotes by Thomas E. Mann

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.

Quotes by Thomas Babington Macaulay

The term 'meritocracy' was coined by socialist theoretician Michael Young, who crafted the party's 1945 election manifesto.

Quotes by Terry Glavin

I love election day, and I love to vote.

Quotes by Susan Straight

There are two chief responsibilities of the Secretary's office. One is to run the elections in the State of Connecticut to make sure they run fairly and efficiently because the Secretary is the chief election official. The Secretary of the...

Quotes by Susan Bysiewicz

My first campaign message is: You can fight an election with clean and healthy methods without resorting to dirty tricks and cheap talk. This is my first agenda.

Quotes by Sumalatha

The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

Quotes by Steven Rattner

If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of approval.

Quotes by Stephen Kinzer

Thirteen years after the end of the Soviet Union, the American press establishment seemed eager to turn Ukraine's protested presidential election on November 21 into a new cold war with Russia.

Quotes by Stephen Cohen

I haven't lost an election since middle school.

Quotes by Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

However, I keep reminding them that this issue is not a new issue that has come out for this election. This issue has been in the courts for two years and two months now.

Quotes by Sibel Edmonds

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.