Quotes for All
Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition that liberals are out of step with the rest of the nation, and therefore all but unelectable outside the precincts of the Northeast — give or take a college town here or a … Read more
As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election. Eddie Bernice Johnson
I want Christians to consider who they vote for. We look a lot at the presidential elections. And that’s where so much of our focus is, especially from the media, but some of the most important elections are the local elections – the mayors, city council members, county commissioners, school boards. How important school boards … Read more
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics. The growing independence of voters, after all, has been proven by the votes in every Presidential election since my childhood and the tendency, frankly, is on the increase. Franklin D. Roosevelt
If every four years in a presidential election, if you’re a New Yorker or a Californian, and you realize that you are so much less important, that nobody is actually kind of targeting your needs because they’re laser-focused on what will play in Florida and on what will play in Virginia. Frank Bruni
You don’t feel you have the same voice in a presidential election if you live in a solid blue or a solid red state. I also don’t think we’ve educated voters well on the different ways in which primaries work in different states. It doesn’t need to be the case that you end up with … Read more
What I see of the US Presidential elections from down here makes me want to disengage from that particular reality and just hole up and read. It’s true. I think if I were living in the US, I would just turn my television and radio off for a year right now, and just read. Francisco … Read more
The Pavlovian view of women voters – plug the words in, and they will respond – sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn’t want him to fix it; she … Read more
Somebody asked me about the current choice we’re being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it’s like two of the scariest movies I can imagine. Dean Koontz
There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections. David Ogilvy