Elections quotes

“- Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting: I don't see no Americans. I see trespassers, Irish harps. Do a job for a nickel what a nigger does for a dime and a white man used to get a quarter for. What have they done? Name one thing they've contributed.
- William 'Boss' Tweed: Votes.
- Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting: Votes, you say? They vote how the archbishop...” (continue)(continue reading)
Daniel Day-Lewis - Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting
Jim Broadbent - William 'Boss' Tweed

“You elected me your leader. Let me lead you now.”
Morgan Freeman - Nelson Mandela

“I don't want my vote taken for granted.”
Rob Lowe

“I don't give a rats ass for the voters! All I care about is the power and the power that'll give me the money. That's why I'm a success and you're not! America for the Americans. You believe that nonsense? You're stupider than I thought! I'd sell my soul to the Japanese if they made me an offer. And as for you, don't come suckering around me if...” (continue)(continue reading)

Jack Warden - Benjamin 'Big Ben' Healy, Sr.

“- Commissioner Brumford: Do you realize that because of you this city is being overrun by baboons?
- Lt. Frank Drebin: Well, isn't that the fault of the voters?”
Jacqueline Brookes - Commissioner Brumford
Leslie William Nielsen - Frank Drebin

“The people would vote for Donald Duck or Genghis Khan or whoever the local cop tells them to because if they don't, this is what happens!”

James Woods - Richard Boyle

“The newspapers was goin' on and on about the city elections, like they was really gonna change somebody's life. But my life had already changed when I lost my job three weeks before.”
Denzel Washington - Easy Rawlins

“They said there were more mail ballots than ever, what about female ballots?”
Cristin Milioti - Kathy Flowers

“We're talking about how you get through today without pissing away everything we've all worked for on this campaign! If you lose this, we can kiss the White House goodbye.”
J. K. Simmons - Bill Dixon

“- Winifred Ames: Fuck you!
- Conrad Brean: Leave it alone! What did television ever do to you?
- Winifred Ames: It destroyed the electoral process!”

Anne Heche - Winifred Ames
Robert De Niro - Conrad Brean

“We are trying to save people's lives! These are the stakes and I'm not going to stand by and watch as this nation falls apart. This is no longer an election. This is a crisis.”
Sandra Bullock - Jane

“People vote not out of love, but fear.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“The man would spend whatever it took for votes, but balked at buying a beautiful painting.”
Natalie Portman - Jackie Kennedy

“I'm George W. Bush. I don't give a fuck what the vote says.”
Kiersey Clemons - Diggy

You know, when Adlai Stevenson was running for president A woman came into him on a rally one night and said, "Every thinking person will be voting for you." Stevenson said "Ma'am, that's not enough. I need a majority."
Billy Bob Thornton - Pat Candy

“- Jane: If I lose to Candy now, I swear to God...
- Ben: This actually kind of matters, Jane. This country could go under. We're talking about people's lives.”
Sandra Bullock - Jane
Anthony Mackie - Ben

“- Julia: It's discouraged for campaigns to interact. For instance, if one speechwriter were to date another, they might reveal something crucial about the campaign. Some campaigns have spies for just this purpose, whose job it is to follow the speechwriter, and to seduce her...
- Kevin: Or him...
- Julia: Into revealing her secrets.”
Geena Davis - Julia
Michael Keaton - Kevin

“- Jack Merridew: I guess you just won the election.
- Ralph: It doesn't matter who's in charge. We've just got to work together. First, we build a camp.”
Chris Furrh - Jack Merridew
Balthazar Getty - Ralph

“- Pedro: Do you think people will vote for me?
- Napoleon Dynamite: Heck yes! I'd vote for you.
- Pedro: Like what are my skills?
- Napoleon Dynamite: Well, you have a sweet bike. And you're really good at hooking up with chicks. Plus you're like the only guy at school who has a mustache.”
Efren Ramirez - Pedro
Jon Heder - Napoleon Dynamite

“- Congresswoman Libby Hauser: You have the full support of the Sunshine State!
- Paulette: Yay for Ohio!”
Dana Ivey - Congresswoman Libby Hauser
Jennifer Coolidge - Paulette

“You can vote too, it's America.”

Michael Keaton - Billy Caufield

“- Kane: It's obvious the people prefer Jim Gettys to me.
- Jedediah Leland: You talk about the people as though you owned them, as though they belong to you. As long as I can remember, you've talked about giving the people their rights, as if you can make them a present of liberty, as a reward for services rendered.”
Orson Welles - Kane
Joseph Cotten - Jedediah Leland

“Bullets change governments far surer than votes.”

Sir Ian Holm - Simeon Weisz

“The election is ancient history, Zaphod. If memory serves, you won, proving that good looks and charm win over brilliance and the ability to govern. And for the record? You are stupid.”

John Malkovich - Humma Kavula

“Man if you keep campaigning for an ass whooping, you gonna get elected.”
Orlando Jones - Daryl Chase