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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. -- Cal Thomas
Stay home on Election Day ... for the sake of the nation -- Sean Hannity
Election night is the easiest time to act like a grownup. -- Ron Fournier
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. -- H. L. Mencken
Election' made zero money at the box office, but it started my career. -- Chris Klein
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation. -- James Freeman Clarke
Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in. -- Jason Reitman
It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day. -- Brad Henry
Election Day now has become the last day to vote. -- Judy Woodruff
I never spoke about politics, with the exception of Election Night. -- Alton Brown
The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day. -- Heather Wilson
Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls. -- William J. Clinton
Bars are closed on Election Day so people won't vote under the influence. Why are libraries closed? -- Arthur D. Hlavaty
'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in. -- Jason Reitman
I thought I was going to go back to Stanford, and then I got Election. I loved being an actor. -- Reese Witherspoon
Election is always to sanctification. Where there is no visible fruit of sanctification, we may be sure there is no election. -- J. C. Ryle
Thank heaven Election Day is over. No more campaign ads, no more mud-slinging, no more candidates pretending they're straight. It's over! -- Craig Ferguson
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I loved Gwyneth Paltrow in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' and Reese Witherspoon in 'Election.' I love quirky films and characters like that. -- Phoebe Tonkin
The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year. -- Jeff Miller
A lot can happen in a week - just read any Bible, .. On the seventh day, Election Day, unlike the Bible, we can't rest. -- Michael Bloomberg
Yesterday was Election Day. If we have any Democrats in the audience, I'm sorry but you're going to have to give up your seats. -- David Letterman
Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election Day, they'll be up at five in the morning. -- Michael Moore
As is the case with that generation [Millennials], they look like they're interested and all fired up and ready to go, and then Election Day comes. -- Rush Limbaugh
As is the case with that generation [Millennials], they look like they're interested and all fired up and ready to go, and then Election Day comes. -- Rush Limbaugh
Election victories are a harvest. You plant the seed. For months or years, you water and tend them. In the election season, you reap the harvest. -- Edward Brooke
Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day. -- Lawrence Block
We the people say it loud and clear every Election Day, in high-crime periods as well as peaceful stretches - More of our population needs to be behind bars. -- Thomas Frank
The ballot is stronger than the bullet. -- Abraham Lincoln
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. -- Emma Goldman
I voted for you during your last election. -- Mao Zedong
Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets. -- Barack Obama
If you've got a business - you didn't build that. -- Barack Obama
I will totally accept the results [of Election 2016] if I win. -- Donald Trump
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. -- Herbert Marcuse
Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation. -- Simon Sinek
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck
President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob. -- Rick Santorum
The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do. -- Joseph Stalin
I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days. -- Gerhard Schroder
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw
The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do. -- Aneurin Bevan
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. -- Gore Vidal
As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election. -- Eddie Bernice Johnson
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. -- John Quincy Adams
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. -- T. S. Eliot
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. -- Bill Vaughan
Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods. -- George W. Bush
A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up. -- Neil Gaiman
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. -- George Bernard Shaw
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. -- Joseph Stalin
Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair. -- Zalmay Khalilzad
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers. -- Nelson Mandela
Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders. -- Thomas Sowell
The American people are sick and tired of this 'lesser evil' garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do the same evils once they're in office. -- Roseanne Barr
I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide. -- John F. Kennedy
There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions. -- Jairam Ramesh
Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days. -- Marco Rubio
We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense? -- Phylicia Rashad
A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift. -- James Wolcott
I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement. -- Robert Mugabe
The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make. -- Patrick Murphy
I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event. -- Benjamin Harrison
I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election. -- Margaret Thatcher
It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted. -- Ann Coulter
This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty. -- Ted Cruz
We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect. -- Gael Garcia Bernal
Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in. -- H. L. Mencken
This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance. -- Pope Francis
In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history. -- Juan Williams
People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election. -- Tatyana Tolstaya
Vote in a national election. -- Bill Vaughan
It's been an unusual election [2016]. -- William Kristol
Leave us to our free election. -- William Shakespeare
July does not a November election make. -- Ann Richards
This election ain't no stinkin' TV show. -- Bradley Whitford
Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting. -- Nicolas Gomez Davila
If the evangelicals vote, they determine the election. -- Ted Haggard
Reagan was a pure liberation, free-and-fair election American. -- Douglas Brinkley
People are what this election is all about. -- Patty Berg
I never ever paid attention to any election. -- Young Jeezy
Young people are the key to this election. -- Kinky Friedman
You cannot win an election without a fight -- Tony Abbott
The media is trying to rig the election. -- Donald Trump
Win or lose, we go shopping after the election. -- Imelda Marcos
Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election. -- Nate Silver
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The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country. -- Donna Brazile
Can we pray for the re-election of George Bush? -- Sean Hannity
In an election, one needs both hope and audacity. -- Francois Hollande
This election result has increased people's faith in democracy. -- Narendra Modi
I don't have time. Come back after the election. -- Jan Eliasson
I am running for re-election no matter who runs. -- Charles B. Rangel
I am running for re-election no matter who runs. -- Charles B. Rangel
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Every election, Mickey Mouse looks better and better as President. -- Duncan Long
During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner. -- Jeane Dixon
Every election I have to hold my nose to vote. -- Drew Carey
Congress can't take the year off, election or no election. -- Kay Bailey Hutchison
I think religion played a huge part in Bush's re-election. -- Tracy Chapman
The election is not a time to discuss serious issues. -- Kim Campbell
Every election is determined by the people who show up. -- Larry Sabato
In a year of re-election he was desperate to impress. -- Rod Stewart
The 2014 election was not a repudiation of government in general. -- Chuck Schumer
As we know the KGB is all over this election [2016]. -- James Carville
Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election. -- H. G. Wells
Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election. -- Barbara Bush
We will not lose this election for lack of money. -- Ed Rendell
The election of Hoover...should result in continued prosperity for 1929. -- Roger Babson
Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after -- Emma Goldman
The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics. -- Roscoe Conkling
You have no idea whether the hacking even influenced the election. -- Reince Priebus
The 1860 election became a referendum on the southern way of life. -- Bruce Catton
Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents. -- David Frum
I didn't have the base I needed to win the election -- Rodney Alexander
It is not my policy to hit voters during the election. -- William Hague
I have to earn re-election. Thats the way I see it. -- Yvette Clarke
We can't win a war, but we can win an election. -- Nelson Mandela

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