Sebastian Kurz Quotes

The Russian people deserve free and fair elections. They deserve to have a democracy.

Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are not held in great sections of America.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.

In Russia we are not fighting to win elections. We are fighting to have elections.

Free and fair elections have again demonstrated that Jammu and Kashmir is part of India, and the people want to remain with it.

When I fight elections, I don't think about results whether it is assembly or Lok Sabha polls.

The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections.

I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and get put off, and give up.

We have free elections. Everybody can vote, we fought for that, we brag about that and we know we're going to have a winner and we're going to have a loser.

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the first time in 2005. The trouble with Democracy is, you hold elections. The trouble with dictatorships is...you don't.

In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.

This election result has increased people's faith in democracy.

I sort of feel we have to owe some respect to the process and owe some respect to the electorate and the people who voted Donald Trump, on the assumption that they have something to teach us.

There are potential policy consequences to a president who doesn't believe in our election system and believes that there's rampant voter fraud.

I ask the GOP leaders also to stand up for the integrity of the American electoral process.

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

Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.

I trust voters. Voters decide on whatever basis they think is important to them. I just want them to have a full range of information to make that decision.

I considered bringing forward information about these surveillance programs prior to the election, but I held off because I believed that [Barack] Obama was genuine when he said he was going to change things. I wanted to give the democratic process time to work.

I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

The American people have now spoken, but it's going to take a little while to determine what they've said.