John Key Quotes

I don't think we'll win every election.

Any time you have a competitive situation like politics is, there are winners, and there are people who don't win, and their supporters can sometimes be very emotional.

To get elected in Mexico today, you have to compete like any democracy, and you don't do that by being manipulated.

The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.

In 21st-century America, as in Georgian Britain, elections are raucous, flamboyant, flag-waving, expensive, and sometimes ramshackle things.

Elections are about the future.

I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.

The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics.

Outcome of these elections is not in doubt due to simple fact that there is only one candidate for each position…. You may be wondering why party propaganda machine attaches such importance to electoral campaign and surrounds it with such unparalleled pomp and circumstance.

The main question that is decided by an election in our country is, which political party shall have the privilege of dispensing the offices of Government?

The last I checked, this is an election, and in an election we play politics.

Elections are not about solving anything. Elections are about winning.

Our American elections have been fought between parties which, roughly, have represented the forces advocating change and those preferring stability.

It’s a good thing in politics that candidates run against each other; otherwise no one would win.

It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes.

Anything can happen when people run for office.

Punditry is like weather forecasting: the winds can shift without warning. I remember when nobody would bet a McDonald's Quarter Pounder that Bill Clinton would win the White House.

In India, elections happen every year in at least a few states.

Whatever changes a common man wants to bring in the country, he can bring it through the process of voting.

Elections, in India, are 'over to the people' time. And it is probably the one time in their lives when politicians, and political parties, of all hues walk the razor edge of panic.

Sometimes in politics, you get a wallop in the electoral process.

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.

I'm tired now of the elections.

Anytime you're playing a major, the last four or five holes, it's not going to be easy. It's never a guarantee. It's never easy.