One of the most frustrating things is to see a country in which you had elections, the elections were a success, but then you have to say to people nothing can be improved in the next few months, even in the next few years, in infrastructure, in water, in sanitation, in health, in education, in jobs.

Antonio Guterres

The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections almost never take place once every four years as stipulated by law. The timetable for a system of research is completely different.

Aaron Ciechanover

Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.

Adam Cohen

Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.

Adam Cohen

A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.

Adam Cohen

As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.

Adam Cohen

A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.

Adam Cohen

I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue.

Adam McKay

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

Ahmed Chalabi

The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.

Ahmed Chalabi

The Muslim Brotherhood and the Salifist parties are a real force in the Egyptian society. No civil, liberal government can succeed, even after new elections, if the Islamists are forced to work underground as a foe and the country remains divided.

Ahmed Zewail

I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

Akhmad Kadyrov

Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. 'Call-time' is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my 'call-time manager,' and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I'm really good at it.

Al Franken

I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag.

Al Sharpton

Voluntary public funding of elections solves the free speech 'problem' with more speech instead of more regulation: by giving qualified candidates who show broad-based constituent support enough matching public funds to mount a credible campaign.

Alan K. Simpson

I personally went canvassing door to door in a local race when I was in high school and thought it was kind of hilarious how worked up people got over such small stakes elections.

Alex Hirsch

I think Matt Yglesias is wrong to declare that the world of 'This Town' is dying, unless he thinks publicly financed elections, strict lobbying bans and Scandinavian-style wealth distribution are imminent.

Alex Pareene

Dictators don't come from elections.

Alexander Lukashenko

When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote.

Alexei Navalny

The winner of the elections which saw the participation of almsot 30 million people was the Iranian nation and the losers were those who tried to keep people away from the polls.

Ali Khamenei