Presidential Election Quotes - Page 2

• WikiLeaks is a lot of things. This past year, WikiLeaks was a tool of Russian intelligence and the Russian government and their interference operation against the American presidential election to benefit Donald Trump.

  Rachel Maddow

  Past, Government, Years

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election if I win. I would also reserve my right to contest or file a legal challenge in the case of a questionable result.

  Donald Trump

  Winning, Presidential, Challenges

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• But did you know that during the past quarter century, no presidential election has been won by more than ten million ballots cast? Yet every federal election during the same time period had at least one hundred million people of voting age who did not bother to vote!

  Andy Andrews

  Past, Voting Age, People

  Andy Andrews (2012). “How Do You Kill 11 Million People? (International Edition): Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Presidential, Society

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.642, Psychology Press

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• Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

  Nate Silver

  Years, Broken, Presidential

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• Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

  George Will

  Party, Years, Two

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• In 2012, the far-right Golden Dawn won 21 seats in Greece's parliamentary election, the right-wing Jobbik gained ground in my native Hungary, and the National Front's Marine Le Pen received strong backing in France's presidential election. Growing support for similar forces across Europe points to an inescapable conclusion: the continent's prolonged financial crisis is creating a crisis of values that is now threatening the European Union itself.

  George Soros

  Strong, Money, Marine

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• You know what's really frightening? You (Jon Stewart) actually have an influence on this presidential election. That is scary, but it's true. You've got stoned slackers watching your dopey show every night and they can vote.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Power, Night, Presidential

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• The lead singer of Creed says he won’t endorse President Obama. Well that settles it -- Obama will not win the 1998 presidential election.

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.

  Joan Blades

  Presidential, Voter Turnout, Voters

  "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.

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• It seems to me that our presidential elections have turned more into a popularity contest than a real analysis about who really should be President of the United States.

  Danny Strong

  Real, Presidential, Election

  Source: collider.com

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• The 2016 presidential election is ripe for the emergence of a game-changing political leader who either dramatically reforms one of the existing parties or mounts an independent bid.

  Ron Fournier

  Party, Independent, Games

  "Chris Christie May Be the Smartest Man in Politics" by Ron Fournier, www.theatlantic.com. January 3, 2013.

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• Every time we have had a presidential election where there is "White or Black," you always have to choose between the lesser of two evils, so you either vote for "Satan" or the "Devil," and you catch hell with either one.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Two, White, Evil

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• Part of the reason [Donald Trump] destroyed his Republican challengers is because they agree with him on issues. And he apparently struck a vein of entertainment among the Republican primary voters, so all they had left was kind of whining and insulting back and forth, as opposed to taking him on where I think a presidential election should.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Issues, Presidential

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• No two countries are identical, and obviously, there's a difference between a referendum on a very complex relationship between Great Britain and the rest of Europe, and a presidential election in the United States.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Europe, Two

  Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.

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• The pattern of American presidential elections is that the more optimistic candidate, whether it's John Kennedy and let's get America moving again, Ronald Reagan, it's morning in America, or Barack Obama, yes, we can, always wins, or nearly always wins.

  Mark Shields

  Morning, Moving, Optimistic

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We can have national dialogue where different Syrian parties sit and discuss the future of Syria. You can have interim government or transitional government. Then you have final elections, parliamentary elections, and you're going to have presidential elections.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Party, Government, Presidential

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Presidential, Personality

  Source: time.com

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• Barack Obama was elected President in 2008 and re-elected in 2012. The natural thing would be to suggest money on the right [wing] doesn't really matter that much. The first thing you have to know is that the presidential elections are the ones where it's most difficult for money to hold sway, in that they're the most public elections.

  Jane Mayer

  Wings, Presidential, Would Be

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In America, one of our challenges, historically, is that we have very low voting rates, even during presidential elections.

  Barack Obama

  America, Presidential, Voting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Ohio, you're too white, too many white people to be in any way meaningful in a presidential election.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Meaningful, Ohio, White

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The recent AP poll that came out last month said that approximately 90% of the American people felt that the two-party system was failing us in the presidential election.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Two, People

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Richard Nixon was a Republican presidential candidate who encouraged crooks to commit espionage against the Democratic National Committee in order to gain an edge in a presidential election.

  Tim Kaine

  Order, Presidential, Crooks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The design of the notorious Palm Beach County "butterfly ballot" in the 2000 Presidential election is certainly one of them. But I would say most of the time this is less about a conscious attempt to manipulate an outcome, and more about pure ineptitude.

  Michael Bierut

  Beach, Butterfly, Presidential

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• When I first covered [presidential election ] in 2008, I was asking questions for kids around the world, but mainly for myself. I didn't know the process, I didn't know how it worked. Now, of course, I'm more schooled on it, but I deal with so much politics in my fashion work and in Hollywood, that I haven't been as connected this time.

  Lily Collins

  Fashion, Kids, Asking Questions

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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