If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.
Will Rogers
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle
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
I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.
George Bush
Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election
Adolf Hitler
I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.
Will Rogers
The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.
Jeff Melvoin
The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
Clare Boothe Luce
We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.
Will Rogers
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
James Freeman Clarke
The only thing we learn from a new election is we learned nothing from the old
Gerald Barzan
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
Earl Wilson
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
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
Newt Gingrich