Nicola Sturgeon Quotes

The only poll obviously that matters is the last one, the one that's counted after all the votes are cast.

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?

I have never seen a poll elect anyone

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

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.

I believe that George Bush won the election through the vote of the people and the way our republic is set up. All we did was follow the law in the Department of State.

I don't believe in the polls. I try to concentrate on the day of elections.

Our pledge is to hold elections in the year 1985. The form of elections has not yet been determined, but there is a group of representatives of the political parties in Nicaragua who have been traveling around the world studying various electoral alternatives.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise.

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

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.

We don't win or lose elections because of [party] rules.

The people are always worsted in an election.

Parties do often nominate losers.

People don't wake up to go to vote and then have their ballot not counted.

It is not nothing to ask someone holding an election certificate in the United States Senate to provide his or her vote.

Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

The popular choice is not elected as president.

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.

I have always thought, genuinely thought, that elections are like world cups. They sometimes look easier from the outside and they are very difficult when you are in the middle of them.

And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.

I expect that after the election and the results that the international community will understand which was the framework of this process and under which law we have done this process.

Elections are rarely perfect.

I'm into politics - I'm interested in the election and how pissed off people get.