Quotes About Elections

Russians who voted in 1990 did not think that this would be the last free and fair election in their country's history, which (thus far) it has been.

The Russian oligarchy established after the 1990 elections continues to function, and promotes a foreign policy designed to destroy democracy elsewhere.

the democracies that arose after the First World War (and the Second) often collapsed when a single party seized power in some combination of an election and a coup d'état. A

By July 1933 it was illegal in Germany to belong to any other political party than the Nazis. In November the Nazis staged a parliamentary election in which

So support the multi-party system and defend the rules of democratic elections. Vote in local and state elections while you can. Consider running for office.

Will we in retrospect see the elections of 2016 much as Russians see the elections of 1990, or Czechs the elections of 1946, or Germans the elections of 1932? This,

where annual elections end, tyranny begins.

support the multi-party system and defend the rules of democratic elections. Vote in local and state elections while you can.

We need paper ballots, because they cannot be tampered with remotely and can always be recounted.

When fascists or Nazis or communists did well in elections in the 1930s or '40s, what followed was some combination of spectacle, repression, and salami tactics—slicing off layers of opposition one by one. Most people were distracted, some were imprisoned, and others were outmatched. The

That November, German authorities held parliamentary elections (without opposition) and a referendum (on an issue where the "correct" answer was known) to confirm the new order. Some German Jews voted as the Nazi leaders wanted them to in the hope that this gesture of loyalty would bind the new system to them. That was a vain hope.

European Union and the United States were presented as threats because Russian elections were faked. In winter 2011 and spring 2012, Russian television channels and newspapers generated the narrative that all who protested electoral fraud were paid by Western institutions.

For many Europeans and Americans, events in the 2010s—the rise of antidemocratic politics, the Russian turn against Europe and invasion of Ukraine, the Brexit referendum, the Trump election—came as a surprise.

Every Pennsylvania county that Obama won in 2012 but Trump won in 2016 was in opioid crisis.

When I see something like Russian intelligence services interfering with our electoral process, I find that incredibly offensive.

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'

As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.

Dan Donovan was the district attorney at one point who could not indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo, who choked Eric Garner on video, for the whole country to watch, for the whole world to watch. And he actually, immediately after that, won a seat in Congress. He beat a Democrat to get into Congress.

My view is that, if any public official or member of any campaign is contacted by any nation-state or anybody acting on behalf of a nation-state about influencing or interfering with our election, then that is something that the FBI would want to know about.

Well, Trump campaign is not an actor. Trump campaign is the official campaign of the president.

We have a problem with our democracy when you have election officials deliberately trying to take away the fundamental right to vote in this country in the 21st century.

After one party loses two elections in a row, there's sort of blood in the water.

I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.