Election Quotes - Page 26

• We Americans think we enjoy self-government. We have all the trappings of self-government, like elections. But in reality, we have gradually lost many of our rights to govern ourselves. We have the form of self-government, but only some of the substance. We are, in a sense, a nation run by a handful of judges who often enforce, not the law, but their personal opinions.

  Charles Colson

  Running, Reality, Thinking

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• They say there are something like 12 million illegal immigrants in the country right now, with another half a million coming every year. Remember in the last election when the Democrats claimed there was two Americas? Turns out one of them was Mexico.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Years, Two

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• The billionaire class fully understands what is at stake. That's why a handful of them are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the current elections. Their goal is not to strengthen the middle class, but continue the trend in which the rich are getting richer at the expense of everyone else.

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, Goal, Dollars

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• A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  People, Lasts

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (1959). “Up from Liberalism”

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• And the first thing we have to do is vote. Hey, no, not just once in a while. Not just when my husband or somebody you like is on the ballot. But in every election at every level, all of the time.

  Michelle Obama

  Husband, Hey, Levels

  Tuskegee University Commencement Address, delivered 09 May 2015, Tuskegee, Alabama

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• Confucius say... politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.

  Confucius

  Hands, Politician, Shakes

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• What does a political revolution look like? It means that 80 percent of the people vote in national elections, not 40 percent. It means that billionaires can't make unlimited campaign contributions and buy and sell politicians. It means that the U.S. government represents the needs of all the people, not just the 1 percent and their lobbyists.

  Bernie Sanders

  Mean, Government, Political Revolution

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• One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Able, Streets, Agree

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• Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.

  Theodore White

  Past, Voters, Individual

  Theodore H. White (1961). “The Making of the President 1960”

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• Finally, it occurs to me that the biggest problem with our elections is that however you vote, you wind up electing a politician.

  Burt Prelutsky

  Wind, Vote, Problem

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• No politician is perfect. But in every election in your life, there will be one choice that is better than the others. Go out and vote for that one.

  Bill Maher

  Perfect, Choices, Vote

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• In my opinion, we need to again consider the possibility of public funding of congressional elections, following the very successful experience with clean money systems in Maine and Arizona.

  Russ Feingold

  Successful, Needs, Maine

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• I also believe that if we're serious about change, we need to have a real discussion about public financing for congressional elections.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Believe, Needs

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• My task, as a member of this parliament and a 30-year member of the Australian Labor Party, as its former leader, as its former foreign minister and its former prime minister, is to now throw my every effort in securing Julia Gillard's re-election as Labor prime minister at the next election.

  Kevin Rudd

  Party, Years, Effort

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• During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.

  Henry Adams

  Air, Vices, Campaigns

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• The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.

  Fidel Castro

  Latin, Government, America

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• All men are NOT created equal before God; the facts of heaven and hell, election and reprobation make clear that they are not equal. Moreover, an employer has aproperty rights to prefer whom he will in terms of "color" creed, race or national origin.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Men, Rights, Race

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• It's kind of hard to win most elections on anti-family, immorality, and Satan-worship.

  Ed Helms

  Winning, Kind, Worship

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• If the federal government has the exclusive right to judge the extent of its own powers, warned the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions' authors (James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, respectively), it will continue to grow - regardless of elections, the separation of powers, and other much-touted limits on government power.

  Thomas Woods

  Government, Kentucky, Virginia

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• More frightening to me than any policy or politician is the ease with which the public is played for fools with words. The latest example is the 'Employee Freedom of Choice Act,' a bill that will do away with secret ballot elections among workers voting on whether to be represented by a union. It is an open invitation to intimidation - which is to say, loss of freedom of choice.

  Thomas Sowell

  Loss, Choices, Voting

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• The Constitution never even mentions political parties, let alone the Republican and Democratic parties, yet all the election laws help to protect them from competition.

  Bob Barr

  Party, Law, Political

  "Election 2008: Presidential Candidate Bob Barr". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. August 21, 2008.

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• Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Democracy

  "Chomsky on McCutcheon: ‘Let’s Forget Any Pretense of Being a Democratic Society’" by Abel Collins, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2014.

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• The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder.

  Arundhati Roy

  Independent, Mean, Profound

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• You can't blame the administration and the Republicans for taking us back to deficits, for spending the Social Security surplus and assaulting the environment. That's what they promised to do in the last election.

  William J. Clinton

  Lasts, Administration, Blame

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• If you once cede to the Court the power to decide elections, let alone even the power to halt counting of the votes, then you have ceded it everything.

  Renata Adler

  Vote, Halt, Counting

  Renata Adler (2015). “After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction”, p.496, New York Review of Books

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