(2211 quotes found)
“We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.”
Will Rogers
“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
“I don't vote. Two reasons. First of all it's meaningless; this country was bought and sold a long time ago. The shit they shovel around every 4 years *pfff* doesn't mean a fucking thing. Secondly, I believe if you vote, you have no right to complain. People like to twist that around – they say, 'If you don't vote, you have no right to complain', but where's the logic in that? If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain. I, on the other hand, who did not vote, who in fact did not even leave the house on election day, am in no way responsible for what these people have done and have every right to complain about the mess you created that I had nothing to do with.”
George Carlin
“A fool and his money are soon elected.”
“A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.”
James Freeman Clarke
“Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only dec”
Rosa Luxemburg
“The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.”
“It's exciting; I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I'm ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it goes.”
George W. Bush
“Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste”
“I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.”
