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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.