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Elections quotes and aphorisms, a collection of great quotations and words of wisdom by various great authors offered by the World of English blog and Carl William Brown.<\/span><\/p>\n

The total collapse of the public opinion polls shows that this country is in good health. A country that developed an airtight system of finding out in advance what was in people’s minds would be uninhabitable.<\/span>
\nElwyn Brooks White<\/span><\/p>\n

Democracy never selects the best leader it always selects the best liar and that is why every democracy eventually fails.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Assuming that fools consider the people the true sovereign, and that in a democracy they consider them the true ruler, I remind you that the people, between Jesus and Barabbas, chose the thief, and allowed the Messiah to be slaughtered and crucified.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.\u00a0<\/span>
\nGeorge Jean Nathan<\/span><\/p>\n

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.\u00a0<\/span>
\nOscar Ameringer<\/span><\/p>\n

The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation’s pulse, you can’t be sure that the nation hasn’t just run up a flight of stairs.<\/span>
\nElwyn Brooks White<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t blame me.\u00a0I voted with the majority.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Elections are never right or good, they serve only to give morons some power! <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nThomas Jefferson<\/span><\/p>\n

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.<\/span>
\nWinston Churchill<\/span><\/p>\n

We have plenty of confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our confidence in.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nWill Rogers<\/span><\/p>\n

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until… lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power… become lovers of wisdom.\u00a0<\/span>
\nPlato, The Republic<\/span><\/p>\n

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?\u00a0 <\/span>
\nWill Rogers<\/span><\/p>\n

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.<\/span>
\nFranklin P. Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

An election is coming.\u00a0 Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nGeorge Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nKarl Marx<\/span><\/p>\n

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You don’t have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected.<\/span>
\nGerald Barzan<\/span><\/p>\n

Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently and all for the same reason.\u00a0<\/span>
\nJos\u00e9 Maria de E\u00e7a de Queiroz<\/span><\/p>\n

To win in this country these days you have got to campaign down to a thirteen year-old’s level of mental development.<\/span>
\nWillie Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.<\/span>
\nPatrick Buchanan<\/span><\/p>\n

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.\u00a0<\/span>
\nRichard Armour<\/span><\/p>\n

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.<\/span>
\nEdmund Burke<\/span><\/p>\n

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nElmer Davis<\/span><\/p>\n

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country – and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nCharles Krauthammer<\/span><\/p>\n

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.\u00a0<\/span>
\nCharles de Gaulle<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.<\/span>
\nRobert C. Byrd<\/span><\/p>\n

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Someone suggested me this definition: politicians, overpaid shit! He might be right! <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they’ve told you what you think it is you want to hear.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nAlan Coren<\/span><\/p>\n

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nLouis Brandeis<\/span><\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/span>
\nWill Rogers<\/span><\/p>\n

George Washington is the only president who didn’t blame the previous administration for his troubles.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t vote, it only encourages them. <\/span>
\nBilly Connolly<\/span><\/p>\n

We have a presidential election coming up. And I think the big problem, of course, is that someone will win.<\/span>
\nBarry Crimmins<\/span><\/p>\n

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nHenry Cate<\/span><\/p>\n

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right.\u00a0<\/span>
\nH.L. Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.<\/span>
\nMario Cuomo<\/span><\/p>\n

America: where a little thing like a majority won’t get in the way of democracy!\u00a0 <\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Get the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.<\/span>
\nFrank Dane<\/span><\/p>\n

How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?\u00a0 <\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft.\u00a0 Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nWill Rogers<\/span><\/p>\n

I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.<\/span>
\nW. C. Fields<\/span><\/p>\n

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nClarence Darrow<\/span><\/p>\n

Our presidential race is beginning to sound more and more like Harry Potter’s duel with the Ministry of Magic.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nDave Beard<\/span><\/p>\n

I always voted at my party’s call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.<\/span>
\nW. S. Gilbert<\/span><\/p>\n

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.\u00a0<\/span>
\nSydney J. Harris<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?\u00a0 <\/span>
\nRobert Orben<\/span><\/p>\n

Truth is not determined by majority vote.\u00a0<\/span>
\nDoug Gwyn<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn’t work.\u00a0Of course it doesn’t work.\u00a0We are supposed to work it.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nAlexander Woollcott<\/span><\/p>\n

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.\u00a0<\/span>
\nBill Vaughan<\/span><\/p>\n

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.<\/span>
\nNewt Gingrich<\/span><\/p>\n

Take our politicians:\u00a0they’re a bunch of yo-yos.\u00a0The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nSaul Bellow<\/span><\/p>\n

Everybody except us is running for governor.<\/span>
\nBarry Gray<\/span><\/p>\n

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal – that you can gather votes like box tops – is… the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nAdlai Stevenson<\/span><\/p>\n

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.\u00a0<\/span>
\nRobert Byrne<\/span><\/p>\n

The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.<\/span>
\nKin Hubbard<\/span><\/p>\n

Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nJames Harvey Robinson<\/span><\/p>\n

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nFrank McKinney<\/span><\/p>\n

Anytime you see white men suppose to fight each other an you not white, well you know you got trouble, because they blah-blah loud about Democrat or Republican an they huffing an puff about democracy someplace else but relentless, see, the deal come down evil on somebody don have no shirt an tie, somebody don live in no whiteman house no whiteman country.<\/span>
\nJune Jordan<\/span><\/p>\n

Democracy:\u00a0 The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nBenjamin Lichtenberg<\/span><\/p>\n

I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, “Dear Jack: Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.”<\/span>
\nJohn F. Kennedy<\/span><\/p>\n

If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?\u00a0<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

A politician should have three hats.\u00a0 One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.\u00a0<\/span>
\nCarl Sandburg<\/span><\/p>\n

If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nEmma Goldman<\/span><\/p>\n

During a campaign the air is full of speeches – and vice versa.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nJames Russell Lowell<\/span><\/p>\n

A new poll showed that if the election was held today, people would be confused because it is normally held in November.<\/span>
\nKevin Nealon<\/span><\/p>\n

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.\u00a0<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.<\/span>
\nJay Leno<\/span><\/p>\n

People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people.\u00a0 Of course, that is not true.\u00a0 Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote – a very different thing.\u00a0<\/span>
\nWalter H. Judd<\/span><\/p>\n

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.<\/span>
\nGerald F. Lieberman<\/span><\/p>\n

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.<\/span>
\nAbraham Lincoln<\/span><\/p>\n

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.<\/span>
\nWalter Lippmann<\/span><\/p>\n

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nStewart Udall<\/span><\/p>\n

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.<\/span>
\nClare Boothe Luce<\/span><\/p>\n

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s license age than at voting age.<\/span>
\nMarshall McLuhan<\/span><\/p>\n

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nGore Vidal<\/span><\/p>\n

I offer my opponents a bargain:\u00a0 if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nAdlai Stevenson<\/span><\/p>\n

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nWinston Churchill<\/span><\/p>\n

Vote early and vote often.<\/span>
\nWilliam Porcher Miles<\/span><\/p>\n

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.<\/span>
\nRichard M. Nixon<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about “character issues.” Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.<\/span>
\nP. J. O’Rourke<\/span><\/p>\n

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nJohn Gardner<\/span><\/p>\n

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s-license age than at voting age.\u00a0<\/span>
\nMarshall McLuhan<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.<\/span>
\nChris Patten<\/span><\/p>\n

Our political institutions work remarkably well.\u00a0They are designed to clang against each other.\u00a0The noise is democracy at work.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nMichael Novak<\/span><\/p>\n

My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker’s union to endorse me.<\/span>
\nClaiborne Pell<\/span><\/p>\n

Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?<\/span>
\nH. Ross Perot<\/span><\/p>\n

The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.<\/span>
\nAmerican Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.<\/span>
\nWill Rogers<\/span><\/p>\n

There isn’t any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.<\/span>
\nWill Rogers<\/span><\/p>\n

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nAlexis de Tocqueville<\/span><\/p>\n

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nMeg Greenfield<\/span><\/p>\n

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nJames Freeman Clarke<\/span><\/p>\n

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 principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.<\/span>
\nFranklin D. Roosevelt<\/span><\/p>\n

The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.<\/span>
\nJean Jacques Rousseau<\/span><\/p>\n

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.<\/span>
\nMort Sahl<\/span><\/p>\n

Votes should be weighed not counted.<\/span>
\nJohann Friedrich Von Schiller<\/span><\/p>\n

The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.<\/span>
\nPhyllis Schlafly<\/span><\/p>\n

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Everyone was tired with the old style politicians and their flowery rhetoric. I just told them there are tough times ahead, but that they would be less tough with me in charge.<\/span>
\nAnibal Cavaco Silva<\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed, you won the elections, but I won the count.<\/span>
\nAnastasio Somoza<\/span><\/p>\n

The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.<\/span>
\nSt. Gregory The Great<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.<\/span>
\nAdlai E. Stevenson<\/span><\/p>\n

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal — that you can gather votes like box tops — is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.<\/span>
\nAdlai E. Stevenson<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.<\/span>
\nHarry S. Truman<\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s try winning and see what it feels like. If we don’t like it, we can go back to our traditions.<\/span>
\nPaul Tsongas<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.<\/span>
\nTheodore White<\/span><\/p>\n

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.<\/span>
\nJohn Quincy Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.<\/span>
\nJohn Quincy Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

Suffrage is the pivotal right.<\/span>
\nSusan B. Anthony<\/span><\/p>\n

Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.<\/span>
\nBernard M. Baruch<\/span><\/p>\n

Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.<\/span>
\nBernard M. Baruch<\/span><\/p>\n

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.<\/span>
\nJohn Jay Chapman<\/span><\/p>\n

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.<\/span>
\nGrover Cleveland<\/span><\/p>\n

The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.<\/span>
\nDwight D. Eisenhower<\/span><\/p>\n

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.<\/span>
\nO. Henry<\/span><\/p>\n

The American people have now spoken, but it’s going to take a little while to determine what they’ve said.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nBill Clinton<\/span><\/p>\n

We’d all like to vote for the best man, but he’s never a candidate.<\/span>
\nKin Hubbard<\/span><\/p>\n

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.<\/span>
\nJohn F. Kennedy<\/span><\/p>\n

The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.<\/span>
\nJohn F. Kennedy<\/span><\/p>\n

There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.<\/span>
\nLyndon B. Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.<\/span>
\nJohn F. Kennedy<\/span><\/p>\n

You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.<\/span>
\nJohn F. Kennedy<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m so insane, I voted for Eisenhower. “Oh yeah, well I’m so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!”<\/span>
\nKen Kesey<\/span><\/p>\n

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.<\/span>
\nAbraham Lincoln<\/span><\/p>\n

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.<\/span>
\nAbraham Lincoln<\/span><\/p>\n

The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.<\/span>
\nWalter Lippmann<\/span><\/p>\n

We just did a survey that showed… something like 65 percent of the [American] people couldn’t vote for the First Amendment if it was up for a vote today.<\/span>
\nPeter Prichard<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.<\/span>
\nWilliam L. Shirer<\/span><\/p>\n

Our elections are free, it’s in the results where eventually we pay.<\/span>
\nBill Stern<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.<\/span>
\nTom Stoppard<\/span><\/p>\n

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.<\/span>
\nHenry David Thoreau<\/span><\/p>\n

When a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.<\/span>
\nHarry S. Truman<\/span><\/p>\n

In times of stress and strain, people will vote.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

No matter whom you vote for, the Government always gets in.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: “I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance.”<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.<\/span>
\nGore Vidal<\/span><\/p>\n

It makes no difference whom you vote for – the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.<\/span>
\nGore Vidal<\/span><\/p>\n

Voters don’t decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.<\/span>
\nGeorge F. Will<\/span><\/p>\n

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