Election Process Quotes

If you want to be President, you'll have to remain poor.

The donor party is the 2 million people who contribute more than $5000 to political candidates. Unless you are elected by the donor party, you cannot run for major office.

I won in a primary, so I understand primary fights.

We politicians are no great shakes, but you voters are no day at the beach.

Bill Clinton, Mr. Bob Dole, You too old to understand tha way tha game is told.

We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

When it comes time to go into the booth, I will be writing down President Mike Bloomberg.

I've never been a surrogate for Bernie, Hillary, or the DNC.

The threshold by the Commission on Presidential Debates. In the words of the League of Women Voters, they are a fraud being perpetrated on the American public.

[Describing a presidential campaign:] A three year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.

It is true that in some states the only important vote is the primary, when you choose between different members of the same party. In these states, where our two-party system usually does not function, it is important that everyone vote in the primaries. Elsewhere throughout the country, citizens should vote both in the primaries and in the final election, for where the two-party system works they will always have a choice between party candidates.

We will spend and spend, and tax and tax, and elect and elect.

The voters of the country decide who they want to support, and the delegates are elected to also make a determination of who would be in the best interest of the party and the country to be our nominee.

The election in Russia was free but not very fair.

I'm not interested in Vice President. I'm hanging around Arizona. I'm running again for Sheriff.

In the absence of formal written platforms, the antecedents of candidates become their platforms. On just such platforms all our earlier and better Presidents were elected.

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

Popular elections are uncertain.

We do not expect much from a pre-election [American] government. It is hostage to the election process.

I am sometimes accused of being a dictator because I provoked the extraordinary elections by nominating the interim government. Can you imagine any dictator who provokes free elections in his own country?

I strongly favor shortening the campaign season and putting more primaries and caucuses on the same day, preferably regionally.

Running for President of the United States requires everyone on the family working on it.

When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.

If an election doesn't go your way, you don't get to call a do-over. Part of respecting our democracy is respecting the will of the voters.

I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.