Presidential Election Campaign

Famous quotes containing the words presidential, election and/or campaign:

    “Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.”
    —Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

    “Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The winter is to a woman of fashion what, of yore, a campaign was to the soldiers of the Empire.”
    —Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)