~ The only thing we learn from a new election is we learned nothing from the old ~
~ The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. ~
~ 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?" ~
~ In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. ~
~ Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election ~
~ An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod ~
~ 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. ~