Quotes about Elections
Jesus Christ would not vote for Barack Obama!" Keyes would proclaim, deliberately mispronouncing my name every time. I beat him by more than forty points—the biggest margin for a Senate race in the state's history.
- Barack Obama
Voting is the best revenge.
- Barack Obama
Besides, now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.
- Ernest Cline
The once-great country into which I'd been born now resembled its former self in name only. It didn't matter who was in charge. Those people were rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and everyone knew it. Besides, now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities
- Ernest Cline
An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.
- Ezra Taft Benson
When we reduce our influence to elections and popular vote, we disgrace the One who covenanted with us never to leave us or forsake us. That political spirit is the leaven Jesus warned us of in Mark 8 when He said to be careful of the leaven of Herod. The political system is real, but it is seriously inferior to the Kingdom of God.
- Bill Johnson
Richard Nixon won in forty-nine states by, for one thing, appealing to the inherent racism of the American people. Voters saw him—a Harris poll two months after the election showed this plainly—as the candidate who would put a stop to school busing and the encroachment of blacks and other minorities on white jobs
- Shirley Chisholm
Well the truth is, Republicans didn't just lose a few elections, we lost our way.
- Mike Pence
We're never going to have a perfect candidate unless Jesus Christ is on the ballot.
- Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Jesus was soft on crime. He'd never have been elected anything.
- Anne Lamott
We're heading into nut country today.
- John F. Kennedy