Election Promises

Famous quotes containing the words election and/or promises:

“Well, I am chiefly interested in the renomination, so don’t get disconsolate over that. If we lost the election I shall feel that the party is rejected, whereas if I fail to secure the renomination it will be a personal defeat.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

“It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilised taste.”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)