Quotes about Elections

"Win or lose, we go shopping after the election."
-Imelda Marcos

"I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days."
-Gerhard Schroeder

"The Commission announces elections. Whether to postpone it or not, is not the responsibility of the government."
-Tejmuni Bajracharya

"We will continue to work so that it does not run in the elections."
-Silvan Shalom

"Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government."
-Gerald F. Lieberman

"Here, in our territory, the elections will not take place on October 30."
-Guillaume Soro

"It's a country that's accustomed to elections every four years. Clean, crystalline, transparent elections."
-Oscar Arias Sanchez

"Declare free and open public elections within 60 days."
-Nabil Sha'ath

"Mount a national crusade against the senate elections."
-Morgan Tsvangirai

"There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder."
-Chris Patten

"It's going to be a 2006 elections issue."
-Norm Dicks

"On paper, this district was designed (after the 2000 census) to be competitive, but elections aren't run on paper."
-Rick Larsen

"If there are demonstrations, they will be sabotaging the elections."
-Ahmed Nazif

"We have more Afghan police, more Afghan army, more American army, more international forces. I believe we will have a secure elections."
-Ronald Neumann

"I think the eyes of the commonwealth will be on this election as much as the other (two) special elections."
-Thomas Morris

"The government has to understand it can't turn its back on this civic demand, the citizens' demand for clean and transparent elections."
-Antonio Ledezma

"The United Nations is of the view that these elections were transparent and credible."
-Craig Jenness

"City elections are coming up, and we're trying to target those areas first."
-Lisa Bourcier

"It is my duty to come to Nepal during elections. I will help create an atmosphere for polls."
-Manisha Koirala

"Of course Argentina can pay its debt. This is an overreaction caused by the power vacuum ahead of the elections."
-Martin Redrado

"The elections were lost by the NDA on the 'India Shining' campaign."
-Arun Kumar

"We have to now ensure there are free and fair elections."
-Ranil Wickremesinghe

"Markets have priced in a positive outcome of the elections."
-Martin Schulz

"Vote in all of the elections, not just for president and governor."
-Leo Scoda

"Investors were and have been a little nervous that will be a major political change in the elections in 2006."
-Javier Viveros

"If there's somebody who really lost the elections, it's the exit polls."
-Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio

"There were a lot of things that were fundamentals of politics here, but because there had not been free elections there no one there knew anything about them."
-Larry Gibson

"Give voters confidence and faith in the elections process."
-Bill Stephens