In past elections, the parties all adopted strong positions on the issue of peace. But this time, the voters aren’t looking for peace – they’re looking for quiet.

The political parties and groups that did not take part in the election should be invited to participate in the writing of the permanent constitution.

In the elections tomorrow, and in the steps which will follow, they will have to decide: whether to take their fate into their hands or to again leave the key in the hands of the extremists, those who led them from bad to worse and condemned them to a life of misery and suffering.

Life is beautiful if you take the best option.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight – it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil – but to be coldly ripped off over and over again by a bunch of bloodless, second-rate...

So far the elections have gone calmly and smoothly, and I hope that they will be completed without incident.

I’m indignant. Berlusconi is not at all involved in this. I don’t know if this was motivated by elections but you have to emphasize the timing.

In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler’s increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.

I want to reaffirm that after the election, we will stage protracted protests until the prime minister resigns.

[Amy Walter, who tracks House elections for Cook, said,] Republicans have done a good job building these levees, but we haven’t seen them tested in a Category 5 storm. … The annals of redistricting are replete with stories of parties that thought they drew themselves into safety but got blown away.

Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.

Relish what is good and expedient.

There was 28.16 percent of the registered voters who voted. For a primary election, that is fairly typical, … There were 1,818 registered voters and 512 voters, which will be the final count because there are no outstanding absentee ballots.

We’re encouraged by the progress in preparing for democratic elections, … The United States does not support any particular candidate, but we do support a process that is free and open and fair.

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

This election serves as a national referendum on whether you are for or against the postal privatization. Unless we privatize the postal system, we cannot reform our social welfare.

Serbian Renewal Movement doesn’t want to call people in the streets in these difficult times. A political agreement among the leading parties will lead to the elections.

Early elections are bad for Poland but in this situation they are a real option.

Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you.

Light is life and always wins.

In other words if a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. One can see how this worked at its starkest in Xenophon’s Anabasis, which tells the story of an army of Greek mercenaries who suddenly find themselves leaderless and lost in the middle of Persia. They elect...

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

What happened to the good old days when rich white men just bought their way into office?

You know we have elections next year and maybe we need new ideas, new leadership to negotiate good terms with the teams.

De todos los tópicos acerca de la política, existe uno que se defiende con más fuerza que el resto: el dinero compra elecciones.

There is a frustration about how all the Green voices at the general election can be reflected at Westminster, and we will be talking a lot at the conference about invigorating democracy,

It is far away from the free and fair elections the government promised.

Elections are the only way civilized countries can express themselves.

Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well.

What is clear is that the allies are deeply concerned with the conduct of the elections and are looking carefully at the relationship with Belarus.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

You may have not taken into consideration the issue of elections, or some of you may have believed that I am going to delay the elections.

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.”[Shrub Flubs His Dub, The Nation, June 18, 2001]

What [Sarah] Palin so beguilingly represented … was a form of female power that was utterly digestible to those who had no intellectual or political use for actual women: feminism without the feminists.

We expect a larger rally after elections that won’t solve the political deadlock.

During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton was hateful in his behavior to women, pathological as a liar, and deeply suspect when it came to money in politics. I have never had to take any of that back, whereas if you look up what...

Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important.

Eschew evil and it`s machinations.

It is now really very likely that some action will be taken, following up what the council [of EU foreign ministers] said in both November and January, that ministers stood ready to take further restrictive measures if the elections turned out not to be free and fair.

We have won this election. We have won both the presidential and parliamentary vote.

Today we enter the fifth month since the holding of the elections and we still do not have a government. In fact we have not even started the process of forming the government by at least having a prime minister.

Japanese voters have shown in the last elections their deep understanding toward Prime Minister Koizumi who says pos-tal reform is the core of his reform program.

Markets have been pricing in Koizumi’s victory in the elections. That’s positive for the yen.

Unfortunately, I really don’t see much by way of the election in the fall.

One is tempted to think the fall is on the back of the Gedrman elections given it’s not the best of outcomes with such a narrow majority,

Don`t complain, Don`t compromise.

This is the first protest after the elections, against what happened in the elections — the forgery and the beatings that occurred.

I think that tomorrow what we are going to have with the elections here, we’re going to have a record turnout,

This is sabotage and aimed at sabotaging the elections, not only the elections, but also the security of Palestinians. The culprits must be punished.