Ontario voters to to the polls this week. Here are some favourite “elections” quotes as we consider our choices:
- The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old. – (American) roverb
- Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. — Franklin P. Adams
- The election is not a time to discuss serious issues. – Kim Campbell
- No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won’t come true because they don’t even mean them – campaign fantasies that win elections but don’t get nations moving again. – Bill Clinton
- Elections are like dictionaries: They’re all about definitions. The candidate who succeeds in defining the contest — and the contestants — wins; the candidate who gets defined, loses. – David Frum
- In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. – Newt Gingrich
- The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street. – Kim Hubbard
- An election is like a horse-race, in that you can tell more about it the next day. – Sir John A Macdonald
- Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. – H.L. Mencken
- Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? – Robert Orben
- What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people… then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority. – Robert J. Ringer
- Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. – George Bernard Shaw
- An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. – George Bernard Shaw
- Our elections are free–it’s in the results where eventually we pay. – Bill Stern
- Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. – Gore Vidal
The quotes are taken from 1001 Quotes on Politics, Elections, Democracy and Government. Read more on this publication and how to get your own copy here: