Quotes on Election Day

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.

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

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

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

Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

No matter how their leaders may have tried to skimp on money, no one, not even the politicians, who talked themselves red, white, and blue in the face, skimped on effort.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.