Words matter. These are the best Election Day Quotes from famous people such as Andrew Young, Jaboukie Young-White, Kirsten Powers, Patrick Murphy, Benjamin Netanyahu, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If Congress can move President’s Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther King’s Birthday celebration for the convenience of shoppers, shouldn’t they at least consider moving Election Day for the convenience of voters?
You want young people to vote, make Election Day a national holiday.
Leading up to Election Day 2008, candidate Barack Obama declared, ‘We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.’ Conservatives heard a menacing threat. For liberals, it was a rallying cry. The battle was on.
The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.
I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.
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.
You call my candidate a horse thief, and I call yours a lunatic, and we both of us know it’s just till election day. It’s an American custom, like eating corn on the cob. And, afterwards, we settle down quite peaceably and agree we’ve got a pretty good country – until next election.
Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town that each individual vote really does matter, and several local races have been decided by as many votes as you can count on one hand.
If you vote early, great. If you vote on Election Day, great. If you vote absentee, great. But get out and vote.
You have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day.
We the people say it loud and clear every Election Day, in high-crime periods as well as peaceful stretches – More of our population needs to be behind bars.
I love election day, and I love to vote.
Poll workers put in very long hours on election day.
Voters have a responsibility to make a judgment with whatever facts are available on Election Day.
The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day.
In my world – advertising – the Super Bowl is judgment day. If politicians have Election Day and Hollywood has the Oscars, advertising has the Super Bowl.
It’s heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.
We need to say to everyone on Election Day, ‘Those of you who helped make this a good day, you need to go out and help us finish the job.’
The people we need to hear from most are the ones who make themselves heard least – except, of course, on Election Day.
This country has always been run by elite, and it’s an elitist democracy. And that’s not a radical concept. It’s elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don’t talk – really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.
In 2010, I ran for Congress in a Democratic primary against someone who had been there for 18 years. ‘The Daily News’ endorsed me. I was in ‘The New York Times’ above the fold. CNBC called this one of the hottest races in the country. On election day, votes for me never went past 19%. I lost.
Voter fraud is almost non-existent. People don’t just show up on election day, trying to impersonate other people.
Flooding the mails with ballots is an invitation for voter fraud and chaos on Election Day. There is a danger of votes being lost, tampered with and, frankly, not counted by overwhelmed election officials.
I’ve had many conversations with the Clinton family. We’re friends. It’s hard, very tough. I think on Election Day, everybody felt pretty good. I think the Trump campaign thought they were gonna lose.
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.
I always stand out by the voting lines on Election Day, and I can’t tell you how many people say, ‘I’ve never voted for a Democrat in my life, but I’m splitting my ticket for you.’ They’re more engaged and thoughtful than we give them credit for.
It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
The polls tell us something, but they don’t tell us everything. They don’t tell us how people are going to show up on Election Day.
As Democrats, we believe in giving every eligible citizen the opportunity to vote – whether it’s early because they can’t take off work on Election Day or absentee because they might have plans to be out of town.
In this country, we move on after Election Day and focus on the transition of power.
