QUOTE (for the election)

"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods."

H. L. Menken

(I think this is non-partisan)

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

• George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

• George Eliot (1819–80) (Mary Ann Evans)

Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.
-Winston Churchill

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made [Prime Minister] should on no account be allowed to do the job."
-Douglas Adams

I place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and
public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. To preserve our
independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

-Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author (1743-1826)

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

-Edmund Burke, statesman and writer (1729-1797)

Sort of along the same line:

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we
created them.

• Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)