Gleanings
You don't have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected.
-Gerald Barzan
We have a presidential election coming up. And I think the big problem, of course, is that someone will win.
-Barry Crimmins
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
-Mario Cuomo
Get the fools on your side, and you can be elected to anything.
-Frank Dane
The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you from across the street.
-Kin Hubbard
I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.
-John F. Kennedy
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
-Jay Leno
In politics, women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
-Clare Booth Luce
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
-Richard M. Nixon
The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
-American proverb
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned with it.
-George Bernard Shaw
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
-Winston Churchill
Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
-Robert Orben
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
-George Eliot