Best Election Day Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You're right of cribbing against a government is none, if you can't take out time to vote for one.”

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“Consider every man a 'delinquent' who doesn't vote by 10 o'clock”

“Chairman Priebus set out on an early and historic political outreach plan which called for investing resources early to build the RNC network well before Election Day. And although the elections are still eight months away, all indications are that the money has been well spent. Our message is getting out to the Hispanic, Asian and African American communities. If we can continue to implement this plan, we will be able to save the country from further policy damages at the hand of President Obama and the Democrats.”

“I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time.”

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Author:Judy Woodruff

“Election Day now has become the last day to vote.”

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Author:Judy Woodruff

“A lot can happen in a week - just read any Bible, .. On the seventh day, Election Day, unlike the Bible, we can't rest.”

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Author:Michael Bloomberg

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?”

“I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.”

“I had a truly horrible dream last night ... [Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Tyson and I] were on our way to a TV studio for a debate about his long-time working friendship with the powerful Bush family from Texas and how it might affect the next Bush presidency when The Terminator seizes power in Sacramento and tries to hand over the state's 54 electoral votes by election day in 2004. That is the basic plan behind Schwarzenegger running. He doesn't want to be Governor, he just wants the electoral votes to go to Bush this time.”

“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.”

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Author:Charles de Gaulle

“Tomorrow is Election Day. That's the day we Americans wake up, consider our options, and then remember we didn't register to vote.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“Yesterday was Election Day. If we have any Democrats in the audience, I'm sorry but you're going to have to give up your seats.”

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Author:David Letterman

“Tomorrow is Election Day. It's what they call the midterm elections, and you can cut the indifference with a knife. It's the day Americans leave work early and pretend to vote.”

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Author:David Letterman

“President Obama spent Election Day away from any press coverage, attending closed-door meetings inside the White House. But on the bright side, it is nice to see some doors actually closed at the White House. It's a whole new Secret Service security thing.”

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Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Thank heaven Election Day is over. No more campaign ads, no more mud-slinging, no more candidates pretending they're straight. It's over!”

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Author:Craig Ferguson

“If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.”

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Author:Emma Goldman

“In a democracy the responsibility for the Government's economic policies, which so affect the economy, normally rests with the elected representative of the people: in our case, with the President and the Congress. If these two follow economic policies inimical to the general welfare, they are accountable to the people for their actions on election day. With Federal Reserve independence, however, a body of men exist who control one of the most powerful levers moving the economy and who are responsible to no one.”

“Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls.”

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Author:William J. Clinton

“Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!”

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“Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race.”

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Author:Hugh Price Hughes

“Politics is the only serious. subject that men think themselves qualified to act upon without any previous education or instruction whatever. If it happened to be astronomy, or botany, or medicine, or law, he would never be allowed to work in any of these arts, or to take a decisive part in the history of any one of these sciences without having, at least, acquired: the A B C of it; but the awful fact of politics is that we do not take the trouble seriously to understand the political situation.”

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Author:Hugh Price Hughes

“Congress will be tempted to wipe their hands of this, go to the Election Day and say 'we've done our part' and that's where groups like ours, Concerned Veterans for America, veterans across the country have to keep the heat on them to say this is just the start. VA is not fixed.”

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Author:Pete Hegseth

“I want people of faith on my side, not just voting on election day but by hoisting me up by getting down on your knees and lifting me up in prayer. Those who have a different view of things are already organizing...Will you stand in the gap with those of us who believe there's a God, and a God who is strong? We can stand in the gap together and speak about issues we believe in and we will be victorious.”

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Author:Rick Perry

“Constant conflict is actually often good politics. Because the more you can inflame your supporters the more likely they are to show up at election day. And if they're more inflamed than the other side, even if the other side has more people agreeing with it, you'll win, because your crowd will show up.”

“Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.”

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Author:Sydney J. Harris

“As John Kerry sails toward the Democratic nomination, new questions are emerging about President Bush's service in the National Guard, like where he was for six months in 1972 and why he refused to take a routine physical. President Bush has vowed to get to the bottom of this right after Election Day.”

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Author:Craig Kilborn

“It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.”

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Author:Brad Henry

“Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.”

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“Voting is a civic sacrament.”

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Author:Theodore Hesburgh

“I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.”

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Author:Benjamin Harrison

“There is only one opinion poll that I am interested in and that is the one that will take place on election day.”

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Author:Michael Howard

“Bars are closed on Election Day so people won't vote under the influence. Why are libraries closed?”

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Author:Arthur D. Hlavaty

“Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day.”

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“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”

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“On Election Day, Ralph Nader will appear on the presidential ballot in only 45 states. Yeah, Nader said, this is really disappointing, I wanted to embarrass myself in all 50 states. That was the plan.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“The job of conservatives is to keep the Republican Party driving on the right-hand side of the road. There are many ways we do this. We argue, we publish, we lobby, we campaign for conservative candidates. Another thing we do is, when the GOP goes off the rails on really key issues - size of government, the National Question, Wilsonian adventures - we stay home on election day.”

“My start in politics was watching my parents go to the polls on election day. It reminded me that being an active, engaged citizen and voter is critical to the success of our democracy.”

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Author:Josh Earnest

“Ohioans know that he inherited a mess and created a surplus. So, on election day, John [Kasich] will prevail in Ohio.”

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Author:Tom Ridge

“On the other hand, I think that Governor Romney has to worry that his turnout is going to be low, that he is not going to bring out the evangelicals, that he is not going to bring out the Tea Party stalwarts. If he does not, then it's pretty clear that he will lose the election. So I think turnout in key groups is going to be really, really key on Election Day.”

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Author:Anna Quindlen

“If Mr. [Donald] Trump is up 10 or 15 points on Election Day and ends up losing, then, you know, maybe he can raise some questions. That doesn't seem to be the case at that moment.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“As is the case with that generation [Millennials], they look like they're interested and all fired up and ready to go, and then Election Day comes.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The Cook Political Report now predicting senate democrats are poised to pick up five to seven seats, which would give them the majority. Pointing out the history shows that races in the Toss Up column never split down the middle, one party tends to win the lion`s share of them. With two weeks to Election Day, there`s not enough time for republicans to recover toss-up seats in states where Hillary Clinton is currently leading, considering this, early voting is under way, and [Donald]Trump won`t be any help especially since his campaign doesn`t really have a ground game to speak of.”

“[Donald] Trump`s campaign, the Republican National Committee and state parties employ just 1,409 staffers in 16 states. So, nearly for the one, democratic advantage in human resources, the big question now is, how well does that turn out machinery work for democrats for Election Day?”

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Author:Chris Hayes

“In 2004 Professor Stephen Farnsworth, when I report saying that I got about five minutes on all the networks after Labor Day to election day: only five minutes even though I, like you, were representing majoritarian issues.”

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Author:Ralph Nader

“We've - we heard a lot from state secretaries of state and other elections officials from all states in the nation, both Democrat and Republican. Before Election Day, we heard for weeks concern about the election being rigged or the election being hacked.”

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Author:Audie Cornish

“New England has a strong tradition of localism. What is ordinarily called election day in most of the United States is called town meeting day in Vermont.”

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Author:Murray Bookchin

“My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.”

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