Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [61-80] of 93 Election quotesElection QuotesElection Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with Public Officials.~ Will Rogers I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.~ Will Rogers On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only people in the world that has to keep a government four years no matter what it does.~ Will Rogers On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.~ Will Rogers Envy is the basis of Democracy.~ Bertrand Russell Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.~ George Bernard Shaw An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.~ George Bernard Shaw I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.~ William Tecumseh Sherman It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the constitution with which they are not in sympathy.~ Alfred E. Smith I think I have served the purpose that I came here for, which was to provide a credible election product for our members.~ Brenda Snipes The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.~ Thomas Sowell Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?~ Thomas Sowell The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice.~ Thomas Sowell Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes.~ Thomas Sowell The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.~ Art Spander A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.~ Lysander Spooner Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.~ Josef Stalin It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.~ Tom Stoppard The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark, divisive clouds of Marxist socialism and bring together men and women from all walks of life who share a belief in freedom.~ Margaret Thatcher [I]f we won’t choose to pay the price of liberty, then by default we shall suffer the cost of servitude -- whether it be the iron chains of a tyrannical oligarchy or the regulatory chains of unelected, faceless bureaucrats. When we witness our neighbors abused by tyrants, will we skulk away and hope we’re not next? Or will we stand by them and challenge -- as freedom-loving Americans -- the tyranny of lawless leaders.~ Phil Trieb Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print