A new poll showed that if the election was held today, people would be confused because it is normally held in November.
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
anytime you see white men suppose to fight each other an you not white, well you know you got trouble, because they blah-blah loud about Democrat or Republican an they huffing an puff about democracy someplace else but relentless, see, the deal come down evil on somebody don have no shirt an tie, somebody don live in no whiteman house no whiteman country.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.
Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Everybody except us is running for governor.
Everyone was tired with the old style politicians and their flowery rhetoric. I just told them there are tough times ahead, but that they would be less tough with me in charge.
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.
Get the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, ''Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.''
I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.
I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.