election quotes

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven’t elected a new one. There’s no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don’t miss it.

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

And frankly, I don’t understand – I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat – but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

I don’t vote. I don’t do no voting.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

I’m glad I can’t vote.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you’re the mayor. The bad news is, now you’re the mayor.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.