“I voted for Justice Breyer and Justice Ginsburg. Not because I agreed with their ideology, but because I thought they were qualified and that elections have consequences when presidents are nominated.” PresidentJusticeConsequenceElectionIdeologyQualified Author:John McCain
“Senator Obama voted against Justice Breyer and Justice Roberts on the grounds that they didn't meet his ideological standards. That's not the way we should judge these nominees. Elections have consequences.” WayShouldJusticeJudgingStandardsConsequenceElectionSenatorsIdeological Author:John McCain
“Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in a mordant protest written soon after the [1952] election, found the intellectual "in a situation he has not known for a generation." After twenty years of Democratic rule, during which the intellectual had been in the main understood and respected, business had come back into power, bringing with it "the vulgarization which has been the almost invariable consequence of business supremacy.” YearsHas BeensFoundSituationKnownWrittenGenerationsIntellectualUnderstoodConsequenceTwentiesElectionDemocraticProtestSupremacyArthur Author:Richard Hofstadter
“There are potential policy consequences to a president who doesn`t believe in our election system and believes that there`s rampant voter fraud.” BelievePresidentPolicyConsequenceElectionVotersFraudVoter Fraud Author:Chuck Todd
“Here`s my point. I don`t want you to be in a position years from now where you welcome Hillary Clinton and say actually you did win. It just wasn`t close enough to make sure that all the votes were counted or whatever. Elections have consequences. Your vote counts. Your vote has consequences.” EnoughWinningConsequenceVoteElectionClintonWelcome Author:Al Gore
“We have a ways to go here, but elections have consequences ... I think that our Republican colleagues, the Republican National Party, understands this is our new demographic in America as a result of the election. I think they understand if they want to be a national party, they're going to have to deal with this issue. For Latinos and other immigrants, this is the civil rights issue of our time.” IfsThinkingWayWantAmericaResultsDealsPartyIssuesRightsRepublicanConsequenceElectionImmigrationCivil RightsOur TimeImmigrantsColleaguesLatinoDemographicsImmigration Reform Author:Bob Menendez