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| Election Day Quotes |
Vote early and vote often.
Al Capone
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Alan Coren
I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
Augustus William Hare
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
Alexander Woollcott
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Bill Vaughan
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
Carl Sandburg
The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
Clare Boothe Luce
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow
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.
Charles Krauthammer
Our presidential race is beginning to sound more and more like Harry Potter's duel with the Ministry of Magic.
Dave Beard
Truth is not determined by majority vote.
Doug Gwyn
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
George Eliot
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathan
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore Vidal
If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Jay Leno
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
Louis Brandeis
If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner.
Lindsey Nelson
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
Michael Novak
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.
Oscar Ameringer
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.
Plato
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
Robert Orben
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Robert Byrne
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
Tom Stoppard, Jumpers
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
W.C. Fields
People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing.
Walter H. Judd
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.
Will Rogers