Election Significance Quotes

Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town that each individual vote really does matter, and several local races have been decided by as many votes as you can count on one hand.

The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts.

Historians and scholars have access to every issue of every newspaper and journal written during the civil rights struggle of the 1960s but can access only a comparative handful of papers covering the election of Barack Obama.

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

It's heartening when people hear for the first time that their vote really matters.

This election is not about me. It is about you.

I don't think it's so important who you vote for - you vote for who you believe in. The important thing is to vote, because it's our way and it's the best way.

I think it is one of the most extraordinary elections, a turning point for our country and for the world. That remarkable young man [Barack Obama] has kept his demeanor, kept his temperament and has shown a power to inspire. I see what energy that he has inspired among the young. Well, it inspires us old goats too.

Political analysts tend to overinterpret the results of isolated elections.

Political elections are not life and death.

I happen to believe that this election year [2016] is...one of the most important elections that we're going to face in a very long time. I know we hear from time to time that every election is important. This one is very, very important.

I think we can all agree this is a very important election [2016]. We don't want to see Hillary Clinton become the president of the United States.

Texas: 32 electoral votes, another of the so-called big enchiladas or if not an enchilada at least a huge taco.

Let's do this. November 8, let's win. You are going to look back at this election and say, this is by far the most important vote you have ever cast for anyone at any time.

My goal is not to win a straw poll that doesn't mean something. It's to win the election that means everything for the future of the country.

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.

But another thing I know is this — we can’t steer ourselves out of this crisis by heading in the same, disastrous direction. We can’t change direction with a new driver who wants to follow the same old map. And that’s what this election is all about.

A growing number of people in this country do not believe that it makes a real difference who is elected President of the United States.

My election to the position of president is the symbol of the greatness of Indian democracy.

Ohio, you're too white, too many white people to be in any way meaningful in a presidential election.

This election ain't no stinkin' TV show.

The time to be political is not when you have parties and carnivals, it's kind of a show, the election. It affects something but not that much. And focusing all the attention on it is I think a mistake.

You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made it doesn't come from elections.