Voting Outcome Quotes

I didn’t get enough votes.

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.

It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

Between yea and nay, how much difference is there?

Well then, the ayes have it.

The good news is, the cake is baked. Barack Obama will not be reelected president.

When I fight elections, I don't think about results whether it is assembly or Lok Sabha polls.

There were a number of referendums in '98 that most of the things I voted for passed. That's very satisfying when you feel that most of the country is in step with your views.

The American people have now spoken, but it's going to take a little while to determine what they've said.

Once they ask for a recount, we will provide them with a recount.

Let's pretend six people live in your house. And you propose that only four people get to eat every day, and you put it to a vote. If four people vote that only four people get to eat, two people don't, that prevails. That's what a democracy is. It's strictly majority-minority rule.

In South Carolina, Senator John Edwards won handily, fulfilling his promise to win every state he was born in.

In 1998 Harry Reid and I had a very close race. It was less than a tenth of a percentage point. We had a reasonable recount. There were a lot of things that I could have pursued at the time, but I just felt that at the time that I should have, you know, conceded the race.

Republicans also took control of the Senate after gaining another seven seats. I haven't seen the GOP get this many seats since Chris Christie made an airline reservation.

Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.

We did really, really badly with older African-American voters. I mean we got decimated.

I voted for the black guy, and what we got was the white guy

We can get this done! Take a vote, and send me that bill.

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

I voted against Gerald Nabarro in my first general election, but my defiance made no difference. If you had put a Conservative rosette on a mustachioed hamster, it would have been elected.

There are elections in which everyone knows that 'the people have spoken' but they don't always know exactly what the people have said. This November's election was different. Not only did the people speak, they spoke clearly.

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.

I have been defeated for election often enough to know that the majority can be wrong.

The Russians could not have had any impact whatsoever on voting in America, either how they were cast or how they were counted.