Election Promises Quotes

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

Politicians are waving the diaper as often as they wave the flag.

Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!

The E.U. referendum was promised by a Conservative Prime Minister fearful of losing votes and of mass defections to UKIP.

Old-fashioned values may count when conservatives appear on the stump, but once conservatives are in office the only old-fashioned situation they care to revive is an economic regimen of low wages and lax regulations…. The leaders of the backlash may talk Christ, but they walk corporate. Values may "matter most" to voters, but they always take a backseat to the needs of money once the elections are won

Canadians deserve to know the difference between Mr. Trudeau and myself.

In order to get re-elected, Obama told us Al Qaeda was on the run and all but defeated.

If elected, I shall consider the whole people of Sangamon my constituents, as well those that oppose as those that support me. While acting as their representative I shall be governed by their will on all subjects upon which I have the means of knowing what their will is.

Rahul Gandhi has promised to remove poverty and unemployment. There is nothing new about the election promises of Congress. Had only half of those promises been fulfilled, India would have been the most prosperous country in the world today.

President Obama ran a campaign in 2008 that was entirely expected from a non-incumbent. You promise, and you imply that if you elect me, everything good is going to happen.

I haven't been in Washington long, but I have learned that it is a place filled with people who say one thing to get elected and do the opposite once they get there.

In politics, you ask the rich for money, the poor for votes, and ask each of them to believe you.

After I win the job and even in the course of seeking it, we're going to be building bridges. And we're going to be meeting people and addressing the concerns that they have.

Politicians make a lot of promises when they are campaigning, and they come to towns, and people get enthusiastic about them coming to their communities. And then they don't fulfill the promises.

The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over.

Politics is the gentle art of obtaining votes from the poor and campaign contributions from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Jon Tester continues to tell Montanans one thing and then votes the other way when he's back in Washington D.C.

Americans are used to the clatter of campaign promises hitting ground as they are thrown out the window.

Working class men and women deserve a champion. They're tired of people just telling them what they want to hear to get elected and they don't necessarily follow through.

From my experience with 5 presidential elections, candidates sometimes say things when campaigning that they don't necessacerily do when they are governing.

Why they vote for me is irrelevant, but if they do, they're in safe hands.

No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.

The problems of the country look very different from the Oval Office than they do from the campaign trail.