American Elections Quotes

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  Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Political, Voting

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jul 26, 2011

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• American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Reality, Voting Age, Political

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• I don't care about Donald Trump himself. I care and I worry about the very big base that supports him because this kind of language would have been absolutely nonexistent maybe 15, 20 - by the way, I follow the American elections, and I have never seen someone who is that offensive. I have seen people who are stupid. But stupid and offensive, that's new.

  Bassem Youssef

  Stupid, People, Worry

  "'Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.

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• Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

  Donna Brazile

  Looks, Election, Finance

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• In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans.

  John F. Kerry

  Morning, Winning, Wake Up

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• We need a total ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.

  Donald Trump

  Lobbyists, Needs, Election

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think Canadians, by and large, during the American election, every time Donald Trump talked about NAFTA, we felt that he was talking about Mexico. Now, if Donald Trump tears up NAFTA, there is still a Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. And we all assume that we will revert back to that agreement, which is essentially the same as NAFTA except Mexico is no longer at the table. I think, you know, that is what we are hoping for.

  Rick Mercer

  Thinking, Talking, Agreement

  "Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau To Visit Trump Monday". Interview with Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, kccu.org. February 12, 2017.

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• Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.

  Theodore White

  Past, Voters, Election

  Theodore H. White (1961). “The Making of the President 1960”

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• I proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base - those people should be allowed to vote in the American election.

  Bill Ayers

  Country, Military, Law

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

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• The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.

  Juan Williams

  Winning, Presidential, Political

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• One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

  Matt Taibbi

  Ideas, Issues, Long

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• Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

  Tony Campolo

  Way, Election, Has Beens

  "Who Are Red Letter Christians?" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2008.

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