Top 210 Electorate Quotes & Sayings

I think FoxNews ratings are a reliable guide to the attitudes of the American electorate.

If you're just inflaming your electorate, are you making anything better?

The vicar of Christ is an individual, not an electorate.

In Utah, where the states` Mormon GOP electorate is especially unfavorable to [Donald] Trump.

A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.

It is always tough to win every booth right across the electorate because there are different issues in different parts of the electorate.

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.

Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.

Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.

A large plurality of the Trump electorate believed the definition of 'conservative' was simply 'Not Hillary.'

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.

There may be a sense in the electorate, especially among independents that President Obama has overreached in some ways.

We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.

What does that mean for a society, for a democracy, when the people that you elect on the basis of promises can basically suborn the will of the electorate?

[T]he economy remains the top issue for the electorate.

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.

Understandably, the electorate places great faith in the professional soldiers and strategists that run our military.

I don't believe that knifing and that sort of terminology is applicable to myself, but I try to the very best of my ability to be as honest as I can with my colleagues and with the electorate at large.

If you have an informed electorate, it makes great choices.

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or truth or what's happening.

We have an educated and cynical electorate.

It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

Trump's more outre economic ideas, like repealing trade bills and implementing a massive surcharge on imports, would seem like non-starters in a Republican-led House and Senate, except when you consider a second point as a kind of syllogism: Republicans fear their angry, white electorate. Their angry, white electorate chose Donald Trump.

From a very selfish point of view, I'm enchanted by the idea that a politician can come along and speak simply and clearly and truthfully to an electorate as though they are grown-ups and to feel the electorate respond to that.

Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate.

An informed electorate is foundational to the future of this Republic.

The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.

No doubt the [presedential] campaigns have reflected some anxiety, anger, and resentment in the nation at large, and we must try to understand these attitudes in the electorate.

The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.

Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.

Screaming 'you're wrong' at the electorate is not a good strategy for a party seeking to win back its trust.

You have an electorate [in America] that wants to see people who are not tough on crime.

It's a very angry electorate out there. I think Trump is tapping into that.

If people of colour do not exercise their democratic right to vote, they will remain an invisible, voiceless, and largely ignored part of the electorate.

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

I want to work with Peter Robinson as first minister in a positive, constructive way and leave the elections to the electorate.

The electorate is bored of talking about the past. They are much more interested in the future.

Looks are just something on the surface. I think the electorate is more discerning than that. They want to know your stand on policies.

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

We can't tell an electorate...when you have something like in excess of 300 million people without any access to electricity at all that you have to put a cap on this.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

The weakness in a model in which one assumes that the electorate gets what it needs from Bill Clinton is that our system doesn't institutionalize the oppositional voice, and one needs to be able to hear the exchange of the debate in order to create an informed electorate.

Representative democracy frequently manifests a disconnect between parliamentarians and the people, so that parliamentarians have agendas that do not correspond with the wishes of the electorate. This has led in many countries to apathy, cynicism and large-scale absenteeism in elections. What is needed is not only parliaments, but parliamentarians who genuinely represent the wishes of the electorate.

The electorate is starved for honest debate and for the good governance that follows from it.

America may be the home of feminism, but I don't think the electorate will allow a woman to be president.

It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent.

The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.

The same electorate that is unhappy with [Pennsylvania's] GOP Sen. Rick Santorum appears to have some qualms with Rendell.

A vital democracy requires an informed electorate, civil discourse, and bold thinking.

My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.

Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate.

We must not ignore the younger electorate in a fight for older swing voters who we can be confident will go to the polls.

We all know that an angry electorate is a voting electorate.

Most often the electorate votes for change.

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.

As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.