Presidential Election Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• In any case, open-seat presidential elections like 2008 just are different in character from incumbent reelects, and I think that's the most important thing about this election - is that once there's an incumbent running for reelection, most of the debate is about, "Has he [Barack Obama] done a good job?" Most of the judgment is, "Do you want to keep him or do you want to replace him?" Now, the opponent has to also be acceptable and has to make his own case.

  William Kristol

  Running, Jobs, Character

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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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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• The overwhelming female protest to the presidential election perhaps is an accurate indicator of how essential it is to understand women, the issues they face, and the need to address women's rights, not just nationally, but globally.

  Carolyn Custis James

  Presidential, Female, Election

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• This whole [presidential] election is being rigged. These lies, spread by the media, without witnesses, without backup or anything else.

  Donald Trump

  Lying, Media, Presidential

  Source: time.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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• 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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• 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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• It was the Democratic Party, it was the Presidential election. We elected a president [Barack Obama]; we didn't elect a king. So all the speculation in the next three months - people camped out at his house, and wondering who's coming to visit, who's going to be the Secretary of State - that all struck me as inane and stupid.

  Bill Ayers

  Kings, Stupid, Party

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• [American Communist Party] legally exists in the U.S.A., it nominates its candidates in the elections, including Presidential elections.

  Joseph Stalin

  Party, Presidential, Election

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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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• 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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• As economists have long noted, the puzzle is not that so few people vote, it's that so many do. After all, no individual's vote has ever tipped the balance in a presidential election.

  Robert H. Frank

  Long, People, Presidential

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The Democrats have lost a thousand electoral seats in America in midterm elections, 2010, 2014. The people of this country are clearly willing to vote against Democrats. They are clearly willing to vote for Republicans. But when you get to the presidential election, it better be somebody that's not just part of the establishment. That's the message, and that's what they're not getting.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, America, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We're going to let foreign corporations and their CEO's decide the outcomes of the [presidential elections] you just can't do this.

  Donald Trump

  Presidential, Outcomes, Corporations

  Source: time.com

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• When you're at the basketball court watching a game, one person may be talking about a fight he had with his wife, another is talking about the last hard-on he got, someone else is talking about the presidential election. The language and the tone and the voice - I'd love to be able to capture that spontaneity.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Basketball, Fighting, Talking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Women's rights is an important and challenging question for us to be asking. It focuses attention on a global issue that in the wake of the 2016 presidential election reached a fever pitch and flooded city streets with pink-hatted protestors. The stakes are enormously high for women, but also for the church.

  Carolyn Custis James

  Presidential, Challenges, Important

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Good poems do a lot of things at once. Often, by doing so, they encourage us to acknowledge mixed and incompatible feelings. Good poems, like good works of history, resist monocausal explanations for anything. There's not one reason why I am angry or excited or hopeful, when I feel those things. And there's not one reason why President Obama won two elections. And there's not one reason why Donald Trump won the most recent presidential election.

  Stephen Burt

  Hopeful, Presidential, Feel Good

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• After [Tomas] Jefferson's defeat of [John] Adams in the presidential election of 1800, they didn't communicate with one another for more than a decade.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Presidential, Election, Defeat

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• It has been an amazing presidential election in 2016. AMAZING. And I don't take it for granted. This sort of race comes along once every century or so.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Presidential, Election, Granted

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• The day after the Republican convention ended, there was another political bomb that was dropped on the U.S. presidential election [2016] from Russia. The day after the Republican convention ended, right before the Democratic Convention began we got what U.S. intelligence agencies believed to be the next big Russian incursion into our election. We got the first WikiLeaks dump.

  Rachel Maddow

  Russia, Agency, Presidential

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think, first and foremost, showing up, making sure that Democrats focus not just on elections, not just on presidential elections, but we begin the process of rebuilding the infrastructure of the party at the grassroots. We begin going out to all those rural counties and begin having a conversation with rural voters and making sure that we hear their concerns, hear their complaints, and also educate them about what we are doing, making sure that we focus on state legislative races, not just congressional, Senate, governor, and presidential races.

  Tom Vilsack

  Party, Thinking, Focus

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Donald Trump was tainted every kind of way you could imagine. I mean, no way in the world that Donald Trump is a champion of working people. He has hurt workers in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Florida, multiple bankruptcies, never showed his taxes. I don't know any good thing this guy's ever done. And yet, because he was able to throw hate and poison on Hillary Clinton, he was able to somehow prevail at least until the Electoral College. I think he was skilled at just sort of, like, keeping the attention on anyone but himself. He is the most outrageous person ever to win a presidential election.

  Keith Ellison

  Hurt, Hate, Mean

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• What I see of the US Presidential elections from down here makes me want to disengage from that particular reality and just hole up and read. It's true. I think if I were living in the US, I would just turn my television and radio off for a year right now, and just read.

  Francisco Goldman

  Reality, Thinking, Presidential

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Republican candidates have won whites with college degrees in every presidential election since polling began.

  Mara Liasson

  College, Presidential, Degrees

  Source: www.npr.org

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