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The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
-Proverb
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
-Franklin Pierce Adams
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
-John Quincy Adams
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
-John Quincy Adams
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
-Susan B. Anthony
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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.
-Gerald Barzan
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To win in this country these days you have got to campaign down to a thirteen year-old's level of mental development .
-Willie Brown
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Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
-Patrick J. Buchanan
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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.
-Edmund Burke
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Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.
-Robert C. Byrd
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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.
-John Jay Chapman
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The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach, his eye for faces and his ear for music; also (when sufficiently provoked) with his hands and feet. If he has ever seen a fine sunset, the crimson color of it should creep into his vote. The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-Grover Cleveland
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We have a presidential election coming up. And I think the big problem, of course, is that someone will win.
-Barry Crimmins
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You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
-Mario Cuomo
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Get the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
-Frank Dane
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One guy wants to help the rich the other the poor neither one works since raising taxes causes instability. They should do neither and eliminate everything from the budget until we're making more then we're spending. It's not rocket science.
-James Dye
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The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.
-Dwight D Eisenhower
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I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.
-W. C. Fields
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I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
-W. S. Gilbert
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In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
-Newt Gingrich
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Everybody except us is running for governor.
-Barry Gray
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The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.
-St. Gregory The Great
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Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one
-Friedrich A. Hayek
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The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.
-Kin Hubbard
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Books about Voting
