Election Quotes
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The dread was built into the 2016 election - a little spoonful of dread.
Barry Blitt
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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.
Charles Tillman
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Despite Netanyahu’s willingness to make concessions, Clinton and his advisers felt that he was not committed enough to the peace process. As a consequence, Clinton sent his senior election advisers to Israel to run Ehud Barak’s campaign.13 The American contribution to Barak’s election was so enormous that Israelis widely recognized that Barak owed his office to the Clinton administration.
Caroline Glick
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Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.
Joseph Stalin
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I think whoever runs next time has to have a very clear idea of where he or she wants to take America and has to run on those ideas, because the election cannot be about personalities, participants sniping, all of the irrelevant stuff the day after the election sort of dissipates, and you wake up and say, okay, now what am I going to do?
Hillary Clinton
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Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops.
Kate Sheppard
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[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.
Abraham Lincoln
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I think you first have to get into Kim Jong-un's head, you know, which is he's in a state of paranoia. He's incredibly concerned about anything and everything around him. I think these nuclear tests were a message to South Korea after the election. So what we're going to do is continue to tighten the screws. He feels it. He absolutely feels it. And we're going to continue, whether it's sanctions, whether it's press statements, anything that we have to do.
Nikki Haley
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If the federal government has the exclusive right to judge the extent of its own powers, warned the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions' authors (James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, respectively), it will continue to grow - regardless of elections, the separation of powers, and other much-touted limits on government power.
Thomas Woods
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The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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If there's one thing the international community should do, if only out of deference because he won the election, is to take seriously his arguments that coca products have a place in the international commodities market.
Ethan Nadelmann
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Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color.
Alveda King
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Obviously the election surprised everybody and we had to adjust in the story room, we did a lot of work trying to figure in this idea that Donald Trump was now the president, and it became quickly apparent then that a lot of stuff that was happening in the real world was more uncertain than what we were dramatizing.
Alex Gansa
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A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.
William Francis Buckley
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People know elections, like television commercials, are not real.
William Greider
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It was kind of interesting: People didn't really want to talk about it too much. And then after the election, it's kind of like they've been unleashed.
Collin Peterson
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If I made decisions around here based on the election, I wouldn't be a very good senator.
Jon Tester
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All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, - every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every election; every death ; every life; every success and every failure, - all change, - all permanence, - the perished leaf; the unutterable glory of stars, - all things speak truth to the thoughtful spirit.
Rufus Choate
