Kofi Annan Quotes

I ask the GOP leaders also to stand up for the integrity of the American electoral process.

I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum beat of a corruption of the democratic process.

The sanctity of ballot should not be trampled.

I will accept the results when the election is free and clean. I cannot accept fraud.

I think our politicians are bought by the highest bidder and that until we clean up our election system, then we cannot make progress on any of the issues. That's what drives me - we must restore our democracy.

For a long time, there has been lingering doubt among many Americans about integrity and fairness of elections. And it's not a new issue at all. If you look at polling data, it goes back decades.

We need election systems that are free from fraud, discrimination, and partisan influence and that are more, not less, accessible to the citizens of this country.

There are potential policy consequences to a president who doesn't believe in our election system and believes that there's rampant voter fraud.

Unlike their Western counterparts, Africans take elections very seriously - rising up early to queue patiently in line for hours under the hot sun and cast their ballots. Any misguided attempt to nullify or steal their votes will evoke a strong reaction from them.

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.

We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It's a joke. It doesn't enforce the law.

Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.

Democracy, if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great, but unfortunately it's been corrupted by this funding and funding of campaigns. There's a much better way to do it. There could be a small amount of money given by every taxpayer to be dedicated to candidates.

I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti want to see the vote of the people respected.

In Russia we are not fighting to win elections. We are fighting to have elections.

If we don't allow people to vote in America, what is our democracy? It's a sham.

The very foundation of our democracy depends on the integrity of our elections.

I do believe we have voter fraud in America.

To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.

I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

Our elections are too important to risk even the appearance of impropriety.

Voter fraud happens on both sides of the aisle. And if nothing else, I'm glad Democrats are acknowledging that it exists.

The Russian people deserve free and fair elections. They deserve to have a democracy.

Voting in this country has essentially been relegated to a very fledging group of election officials, who receive no training and operate on shoestring budgets on one hand, and political consultants whose job is to get their candidates elected on the other. And when you have that kind of scenario, it's really hard to describe yourself as a vibrant democracy. It's an embarrassment.