Quotes About Voters

What have we heard from Republican voters? They want somebody that's new, they want somebody that's fresh. They don't want an establishment.

Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go.

I don't think people want to see someone buy a congressional race.

They aren't voters using active intelligence or participants in a civil democracy; they are fans.

They aren't voters using active intelligence or participants in a civil democracy; they are fans. Their role is to cheer and fund their team and trash-talk whatever team is on the other side.

There was a feeling that voters should be repaid in booze for the effort of voting.

I think social issues are always part of a presidential campaign.

No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.

If we elect people who have never been to public school, never had to worry about counting on Social Security, then how can they effectively legislate?

In crucial states such as Iowa, Ohio, and Wisconsin, Clinton drew 15 to 20 percent fewer Democratic voters than Barack Obama had in 2012.

When news of the results got out, it caused many Americans to look at their country with a new sense of self-loathing. "We have a working majority of voters who have children's minds," a prominent newspaper editor named William Allen White declared.

We have a working majority of voters who have children's minds

It does no good to be a conservative if you can't sell a conservative message in a general election.

Millennials, minorities, women - until we can connect with those populations, we're going to have some difficulty electorally.

No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems—of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.

What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.

Politics is not about empirical realities, but about popular images. So long as the image of rent control is good, it wins votes at election time-and that is what it is all about, as far as politicians are concerned.

The Christian nationalist movement is not a grassroots movement. Understanding its appeal to a broad mass of American voters is necessary in explaining its strength but is not sufficient in explaining the movement's direction. It is a means through which a small number of people — quite a few of them residing in the Washington, DC, area — harness the passions, resentments, and insecurities of a large and diverse population in their own quest for power.

The main influence on voters should be a series of robust debates among the candidates. It's a free country, so this is a tough problem to solve, but I'd love to see an election season with zero political ads, and all voters had to decide based on watching four national debates over the two months leading to election day.

Independents come back, usually right before an election. They tune out, and then they start refocusing.

There's an old saying in politics: You never run the same race twice. Democrats are running the same race three, four, five times. It's an old ploy, and Coloradans see through it.

Not getting rid of [Donald] Trump because there's a slew of Republican voters that don't want to get rid of Trump.

We try it practically every time it comes up, be it amnesty, be it any other issue they want. We try and it gets us nowhere, and it doesn't get us any favors among left-wing-inclined voters, either.

Every time a Republican wins the White House, whenever Republicans win control of Congress, the Drive-Bys always claim that the message is voters want a balanced and divided government.