If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

 —Jay Leno

We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.

 —Will Rogers

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

 —T.S. Elliot

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

 —George Bernard Shaw

Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.

 —H.L. Mencken

The election isn’t very far off when a candidate can recognize you from across the street.

 —Kin Hubbard

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

 —Otto Von Bismarck

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

 —George Jean Nathan

It’s not the voting that’s the democracy; it’s the counting.

 —Tom Stoppard

If  voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.

 —Emma Goldman

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

—Oscar Ameringer

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom.

—Plato

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

  —Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

—James Russell Lowell

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

—Louis Brandeis