Jim Edgar Quotes

Elections have consequences.

Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy.

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.

I've been through so many different political races.

Elections have consequences.

Political elections are not life and death.

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.

Elections are not really about political choices. The choice is usually between tweedle-de-dum and tweedle-de-dummer.

I cannot run the political machine. I have enough on my hands without that. It is the people's business.

Your vote is your voice.

We have 57 choices of ketchup and 500 TV channels. Very nearly everything has been disrupted in the country, from how we buy groceries to how we consume news, except for the system that produces the political leadership of the country.

Elections come and go, people win and lose, that is part of politics. It doesn't anyway change things on the ground.

Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.

Working people vote!

When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote.

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.

When politics is interesting, people go vote.

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.

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.

In our form of democracy the expression of the popular will can be effected only through the instrumentality of political parties.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

We must demonstrate our power by exercising our right to vote.

You've got to lose a few [elections] before you learn what the American system is all about.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.