Election Timing Quotes

Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That's when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers.

It seemed to me to be entirely un-kosher, if that's a word, to try to put a debate about war right in front of the midterm to try to affect the midterm outcomes.

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

It is never a perfect time or a right time to step aside. But for me, this is the time. I want to share with you my decision that I will not be a candidate for any office in November of 2014.

It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election.

I've noticed that in the U.S., when the president hits the three-year mark in office, he goes into re-election campaigning.

I supported Hillary Clinton. She would have made an excellent president. I didn't think she could get elected. I thought it was too soon.

Iraq is so bad that President Obama phoned Hillary Clinton and asked her if she could start early.

Ukraine is going through a difficult time. There is nothing extraordinary of the resignation of the Ukrainian government ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections

We have had political parties threatening to bring down the government, talking about it but not bringing down the government. What I am focused on is the things we are in control of. The timing of a general election, we don't have control over.

I do honestly believe the Republicans have reformed and want to do better. But whether they have done it in time to win the election is another thing. The old voter is getting so he wants to be saved before October every election year.

We should hold the presidential elections at least a few weeks before the congressional election so that the voters will know which party will control the White House.

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

In the United States, we've put our elections on Tuesday. That's dumb. In modern life, it makes absolutely no sense.

Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy.

For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.

Theresa May's decision to call an unnecessary general election after Article 50 was triggered was deeply irresponsible.

The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.

If the election had been held on October 27, I would be your President.

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.

They don't want you to vote. If they did, we wouldn't vote on a Tuesday. In November. You ever throw a party on a Tuesday? No. Because nobody would come.

July does not a November election make.

In 2001-2002, I told the president that the election was supposed to take place when the war was over, at a time when we could return to peaceful life. We agreed upon that. However, I can see now that the election cannot be delayed any longer.

A cardinal rule of politics is that if an issue has the potential to cause problems for a candidate, it is best to deal with it well before the election so the dust has time to settle.

By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year.