Election years quotes:

Send

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor. -- John Poindexter
The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years. -- Will Rogers
A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president's popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns. -- Chaz Bufe
How Obama approaches judicial selection - and how Republicans respond - now becomes an important story and will remain so until the Senate shuts down judicial confirmations, probably in the summer of 2016 if Senate custom in presidential-election years is followed. -- Terry Eastland
I'm very concerned with what's going on the news, but I would not call myself a political animal, per se. I pay more attention during election years, or if I see some topic or issue that I care about. But I would never call myself a political animal or political junkie. -- Keegan-Michael Key
Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken. -- Nate Silver
The first election I remember was Dewey Truman in '48. I was, I guess, seven years old. -- George Will
I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling. -- Rob Corddry
Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years. -- John M. McHugh
Once every 12 years there is a unique opportunity to reinforce the bonds between Mexico and the United States, when our presidential election cycles coincide. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008. -- Jim DeMint
Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States. -- David Axelrod
Election Day 2010 saw the culmination of years of aggravation and resentment toward a federal government that became disconnected and disdainful of the values and priorities of Americans. -- George Allen
In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death. -- John Linder
All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held 'elections.' Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things. -- Benazir Bhutto
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. -- Stephen Cohen
What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked. -- Nick Clegg
Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country. -- Jared Diamond
Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics. -- Roger Ebert
I represented the 4th District of South Carolina... from the election '92 until election '98. And then I was out six years and then came back for another six years between the election 2004 and the election 2010. -- Bob Inglis
In some countries that are darlings of the West, like Egypt, everyone knows the result of national elections years in advance: The man in power always wins. In others, like Saudi Arabia, the very idea of an election is unthinkable. -- Stephen Kinzer
The 1994 elections that brought Newt Gingrich to power in the House decisively shaped the remaining years of Bill Clinton's presidency, pushing him further to the right and bringing out his latent tendency to govern every day as if an election were being held the next. -- Noah Feldman
My positions on gun safety have remained consistent over the years, and have been on my website for years. Whether I'm in a tough re-election race, an easy re-election race, or if it isn't an election year, whether there's a high-profile tragedy in the news or otherwise, my position remains unchanged and on my website. -- Brad Sherman
No individual has done more to help me pursue a career in science than my wife of forty-five years. I met Enid Cassandra Morgan during the election campaign of 1948 when she was a Sunday school teacher, a leader of the youth organizations of St. Phillips Episcopal Church, and the head of Harlem Youth for the election of Henry Wallace. -- Robert Fogel
The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages. -- Frank Zappa
I've been doing politics 30 years. I've never seen an election like this [in 2016]. This is entirely unpredictable. -- Renee Montagne
Why you won an election and why you didn't is a subject of, you know, books that get written 20 years later. -- Rudy Giuliani
The general election's taking place today in Iraq, so I guess that means we're one step closer to being there for another 10 years. -- David Letterman
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
Imagine a government which has delivered double-digit growth rates for over seven years losing an election anywhere on earth. It is unheard of for such a phenomenon to happen. -- Meles Zenawi

Send