Will Rogers Quotes

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

I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.

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

It's been an unusual election [2016].

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.

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

Once they ask for a recount, we will provide them with a recount.

Elections are rarely perfect.

I can't see where there is anywhere left to move. If you don't have a recount it's hard to receive any more votes.

I have nothing to do with counting the votes.

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.

The election campaign is no time to get involved in very, very serious issues.

We have voted. The people have spoken. It’s just going to take a little while to figure out what we said.

Increased turnout at the polls produces two secondary benefits: more definitive election results and an election that costs less per vote.

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

I have never seen a poll elect anyone

It was a good election, a good campaign, and a good friend won.

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.

We had this little election back in 2018. And despite the final tally and the inauguration and the situation we find ourselves in, I do have one very affirmative statement to make. We won.

When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.

The people who cast the votes decide nothing; the people who count the votes decide everything.

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.