Benjamin E. Sasse Quotes
And the media plays into his hand, every single time. By April 1, 2016, with a month still to go in the Republican primaries, Donald Trump had received the equivalent of $2 billion in free television coverage. All sixteen of his GOP opponents, by comparison, had received $1.2 billion combined. By the day of the November general election, Trump had earned just under $5 billion in free media—$1.75 billion more than Hillary Clinton.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.
Damian Lewis
-
Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.
Rand Paul
-
The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.
Ted Deutch
-
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
Orson Welles
-
I voted for you during your last election.
Mao Zedong
-
Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
Nate Silver
-
I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.
Ed Rollins
-
There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.
P. J. O'Rourke
-
Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.
Rand Paul
-
It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.
Malcolm Wallop
-
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.
Dan Quayle
-
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
Adam Michnik
-
In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore.
Samantha Power
-
Oregonians have many good reasons to be proud of our election system.
Kate Brown
-
I'm so Republican, my first name starts with 'R.' I'm so right-wing - well, Randy Weber. You do the math.
Randy Weber
-
And I think within the pages of The Betrayal of America I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.
Vincent Bugliosi
-
We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.
Kate Clinton
-
After President Obama's election in 2008, there was a widespread hope that it would mark an end to unseemly partisan nastiness.
Valerie Plame
-
A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.
Henry Ward Beecher
-
When I first arrived to Congress in 1975, I would spend several hours every week with Republicans - having lunch, drinking a beer. But by the time I left last year, that was a rarity. Every moment of free time is eaten up by fundraising. And the advent of all these groups that can threaten passage of this or that with an avalanche of money or a primary opponent has poisoned our politics.
Tom Harkin
-
Free advice is often overpriced.
Charles E. McKenzie
-
For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
Patricia Marx
-
And the media plays into his hand, every single time. By April 1, 2016, with a month still to go in the Republican primaries, Donald Trump had received the equivalent of $2 billion in free television coverage. All sixteen of his GOP opponents, by comparison, had received $1.2 billion combined. By the day of the November general election, Trump had earned just under $5 billion in free media—$1.75 billion more than Hillary Clinton.
Benjamin E. Sasse