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What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!
Sep 30, 2025
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.
Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election Day, they'll be up at five in the morning.
Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House.
If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow. And when you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first one to stand up and join in.
Stay home on Election Day ... for the sake of the nation
Democracy is the only game in town. The problem is [when] people start to believe that it is not a game worth playing.
If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable!
If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.
Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Don't vote, it only encourages them.
It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.
If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner.
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.
I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.
One year ago, the RNC began the Growth and Opportunity Project to help reach new voters, engage diverse communities, and strengthen the party. After having the opportunity to work with the RNC and this project, I have seen the amazing efforts being made first hand, and would like to celebrate the great strides taken thus far, while also commending the RNC for the progress it has made as we collectively look towards Election Day and the future.
I want people of faith on my side, not just voting on election day but by hoisting me up by getting down on your knees and lifting me up in prayer. Those who have a different view of things are already organizing...Will you stand in the gap with those of us who believe there's a God, and a God who is strong? We can stand in the gap together and speak about issues we believe in and we will be victorious.
Yesterday was Election Day. If we have any Democrats in the audience, I'm sorry but you're going to have to give up your seats.
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."
If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.
The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school, reading his newspaper, and cheering for the politician of his admiration, but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays — but he always pays — yes, above all, he pays.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
President Obama spent Election Day away from any press coverage, attending closed-door meetings inside the White House. But on the bright side, it is nice to see some doors actually closed at the White House. It's a whole new Secret Service security thing.
Politics is the only serious. subject that men think themselves qualified to act upon without any previous education or instruction whatever. If it happened to be astronomy, or botany, or medicine, or law, he would never be allowed to work in any of these arts, or to take a decisive part in the history of any one of these sciences without having, at least, acquired: the A B C of it; but the awful fact of politics is that we do not take the trouble seriously to understand the political situation.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Income tax filing and payment day should be moved from April 15th to November 1st so it can be close to election day. People ought to have their tax bills fresh in mind as they go to vote.
Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
[Donald] Trump`s campaign, the Republican National Committee and state parties employ just 1,409 staffers in 16 states. So, nearly for the one, democratic advantage in human resources, the big question now is, how well does that turn out machinery work for democrats for Election Day?
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.