Quotes About Elections

Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights.

It looks like they [the Republicans] don't want to win if it means winning with [Donald] Trump. They must really hate Trump out there.

Media does not get everything they want all the time. The Democrats certainly don't. They don't win every election, and they don't win every battle.

The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you...

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.

You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.

People want change. How is Barack going to do it? I think McCain can bring change.

People sometimes ask me, "You're still in a primary - why are you criticizing [Donald] Trump?" It's because I don't want what he's saying to stand unanswered.

Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.

And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

I think it is time for all babies to let us know who they want for president.

I honestly don't even really want to think about it [if Donald Trump wins]; I'd rather focus on how wonderful Hillary Clinton is.

You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made it doesn't come from elections.

But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.

The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.

Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.

And there's no doubt that the presence of a black family in the White House enraged a sufficient number of Americans to insure the election of a swindling, violent successor whose policies, such as they are, are at odds with the interests of all but a handful of billionaires.

I didn't vote for Trump. So we've got him. Let's hope for the best. He might do something good.

When events like the Sony Hack or the news of the Russian hack of our election, we're not shocked by such events, but they are troubling.

You can't be too right too soon and win elections.

I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can - must have some sort of responsibility, because they're in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines.

For more than a century, states have sought to protect the integrity of the democratic process at the state and local level by regulating corporate spending in elections.

The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

The American people have a right to know the source of the money that is being spent. They should be told who is behind the millions of dollars in campaign ads, and they should receive this information before they vote.