Top 1200 Presidential Election Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on November 14, 2024.
I think 9/11 guaranteed that national security is going to be in the forefront of every election.
We cannot live in a country where losing an election functions as de facto immunity deal.
A presidential candidate's great desire is to be seen as pragmatic, and they hope their maneuvering and shifting will be seen in pursuit of some higher purpose. It doesn't mean they are utterly insincere.
No opposition politician has ever taken responsibility for his or her election failures.
It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system.
As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.
[People] will be reminded of the integrity of our election systems and the confidence that they deserve to have.
If you don't have good people, and you don't have a good process and you don't have, at some level, the basic reverence for [presidential] office, and an understanding of the incredible responsibilities and obligations, then, I think you can get into trouble.
The only future Barack Obama is trying to win is his own re-election.
Trump's election could be a blessing in disguise. This is the opportunity for America to correct itself.
The aftermath of this extraordinary election [2016] could be just as surprising as the race itself.
I worked at Mar-a-Lago for Trump, for some parties, and he seemed nice enough - but I don't think he's presidential. I think he's incompetent; I disagree with his policies, and I'm nervous as an American.
Is there anything more dangerous to the cause of liberty than a politician fixated on re-election?
You want young people to vote, make Election Day a national holiday.
Election security is the first step to having free, fair, and open elections.
I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.
I know how it feels when you're coming into a new situation, that the other guys won the election.
I think most Republicans would rather win this election than have transformation.
You don't need to be a trained investigator to grasp the blatantly obvious fact that the funding of the Steele dossier by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is a crucial piece of information that should have been revealed to the FISA Court.
On a pure entertainment level, if I'm going to choose to listen to a presidential candidate speak on a Saturday night, it's going to be Donald Trump over Bernie Sanders by a landslide!
And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.
Weary of wily politicians who say one thing and do another, voters and advocacy groups insist presidential contenders commit to the cause du jour in writing, but candidates are foolish to comply. Words matter.
Rick Perry dropped out of the presidential race. When asked what went wrong, Perry said, I guess America is not ready to elect a dumb guy from Texas. But in time.
The problem with the Democratic Party is, we're like, 'If we just get another presidential candidate in there, everything will be OK.' We should be focusing on school boards, city council races, state legislatures.
The Democrats current crudeness is a function of their desperation, and the imminent ratification of Howard Dean, the least charming presidential candidate in recent memory, as their party chairman only serves to punctuate the problem.
Allegations that President Clinton pardoned Marc Rich partly in return for donations to his presidential library have raised questions about the value of such institutions and the federal appropriations that support them.
You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns.
There wasn't a Scottish nationalist MP elected at any general election when we were outside the E.U.
The first thing I remember feeling about the 2016 U.S. election was a kind of speechlessness.
[When asked, as a prospective Presidential candidate, whether she had ever committed adultery:] No. But then most congresswomen don't have 25-year-old lifeguards throwing themselves at their feet around this place.
It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism.
The Republican establishment is trying to nullify the 2016 election. That's a brutal fact we have to face.
Folk who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign.
That's part of what I tried to describe to my team and supporters after the election, there was a lot of disappointment.
I always go with a classic hair look - sleek and to the side - for election coverage.
I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.
I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.
I think the election of Trump was an expression of what happens in ruling powers as they become alarmed.
The pressure of the [election] campaign has a wonderful way of revealing your strengths and weaknesses.
This is America. We don't call an election before we know who won. That, after all, is the job of the Supreme Court.
I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.
My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. The first presidential transition of my sentient lifetime, Kennedy's, I remember vividly.
We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.
Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.
It's going to be interesting to watch presidential elections in around 2040, when voters can dig up candidates' teenage angst pics and posts from old social media and discussion forum archives.
Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romneys is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired.
No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.
Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.
The real election meddling is by Facebook and Google and others that are shadow-banning people.
The one sure way of participating in the process of nation-building is to vote on the election day.
Voters have a responsibility to make a judgment with whatever facts are available on Election Day.
Even Jesus Christ cannot conduct a free and fair election in Nigeria.
If Republicans vote in big numbers, we win a statewide election. It's just that simple.
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.
One of the unwritten rules in a presidential news conference is that he'll answer questions. If he chooses not to, there's not much you can do about it other than make yourself look like an idiot screaming, which to me is counterproductive.
A new presidential poll reveals that Democrats have the edge among voters under 30. The good news for Republicans is that there's only six people under 30 who actually vote.
The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.
It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election.
You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.
