Vernon Jordan Quotes

Popular elections are uncertain.

I have won elections and I have lost elections.

Sometimes in politics, you get a wallop in the electoral process.

And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.

Election victories increasingly depend on factors other than who votes, or tries to vote, and for whom. In 2000, the presidency was awarded by the Supreme Court, pre-empting the count of thousands of Florida votes.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

Indeed, when all parties campaign effectively the overall effect is to push up voting rates, as you see in tight marginal seats or close general elections. That must be good for democracy.

I've been in a lot of elections.

The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller.

I don't think we'll win every election.

We don't win or lose elections because of [party] rules.

Every election is a matter of definition.

Any time you put your name on a ballot, there is a risk of election.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

An election is like a horse-race, in that you can tell more about it the next day.

The last I checked, this is an election, and in an election we play politics.

Elections are not about solving anything. Elections are about winning.

This election is not about me. It is about you.

I have never seen a poll elect anyone

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

It was a good election, a good campaign, and a good friend won.

I can't influence how other parties choose to vote.

In India, elections happen every year in at least a few states.

Senators, in the end, must be elected.