Election

We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.

-Will Rogers

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is an election going on all the time... the Lord votes for you and Satan votes against you, and you must cast the deciding vote.

-Anonymous

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election

-Adolf Hitler

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

-Bill Vaughan

Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.

-Author Unknown

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

-George Jean Nathan

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

-Robert Byrne

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

-Alexander Woollcott

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.

- Henry Louis Mencken, 1880 - 1956

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

- Otto von Bismarck, 1815 - 1898

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

- Lily Tomlin