“I think that it's time for a new generation of leadership. It's been demonstrated in this election cycle with two choices that more than half the country is deeply dissatisfied with, and really seeking and hungry for a ticket they can vote for and be proud of.” ThinkingCountryChoicesProudVoteElectionHungryBe ProudDissatisfied Author:Mindy Finn
“I think the real sort of decision moment for me was president Donald Trump election night and just realizing that there was something happening in the country and in the world that had a very deep relationship to the nature of the current media landscape and that this opportunity that was in front of me could be a place to try to work on that. To try to fix what was going wrong and, or at least make an attempt.” ThinkingWorldTryingRealCountryMomentsNightOpportunityPresidentRealizingDecisionElectionVery Deep Author:Lydia Polgreen
“Russia and other countries have been hacking and attempting to attack American institutions for years, that Russia's attack on American elections has been going back for over 50 years. So this is nothing new. And the fact that this particular hack was perpetrated by Russian entities is something that no one is disputing.” CountryElectionOver 50 Author:Reince Priebus
“I think that Vladimir Putin has decided, in a very strategic way, to turn the tables and do everything in his power to, as we've described Russian elections as illegitimate, to try and communicate to the rest of the world that Western elections are illegitimate. And it's not just us, we know that now. It's Germany, it's France, it's a number of other countries.” ThinkingWorldTryingCountryElectionWesternCommunicate Author:Robert M. Gates
“We, as a country, cannot allow ourselves to become numb to this. We, as a media, cannot shrug it off as old news, because the real danger here is that, when Donald Trump lies to his supporters about the others who are trying to steal the election, some of his supporters believe him.” TryingBelieveRealCountryLyingDangerElectionStealingSupporterNumb Author:Brian Stelter
“We have never in the history of our country been in a situation where an adversary, a foreign power, is working so hard to influence the outcome of the election, and, believe me, they're not doing it to get me elected. They're doing it to try to influence the election for Donald Trump. Now, maybe because he has praised Putin, maybe because he says he agrees with a lot of what Putin wants to do, maybe because he wants to do business in Moscow, I don't know the reasons.” TryingBelieveCountryReasonSituationInfluenceElectionAgreeBelieve In MeAdversaries Author:Hillary Clinton
“For 17 years, elections in Russia have followed the same pattern: Nobody criticizes Putin, nobody runs a real election campaign, the whole process takes place quietly over a period of two months. The Kremlin blocks every alternative to Putin. He doesn't want a candidate who will travel through the country and speak loudly about Russia's problems.” RealCountryProblemRunningSpeakElectionBlockCriticize Author:Alexei Navalny
“That's what I'm doing here, throw out New York and California, Donald Trump wins the popular vote by nearly three million votes. But you can't throw out New York and California. This is exactly why we have the Electoral College. Had there been no Electoral College and had the election be defined by the popular vote, I guarantee you that the two states where the candidates would have been all the time are New York and California. There would have been some time in Texas and they would have ignored the vast majority of people in the country.” PeopleCountryWinningCollegeVoteElectionIgnored Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There is a route to the presidency in this country, and it's called the Electoral College, and both candidates base their campaigns on winning the Electoral College, not the popular vote. And in that pursuit, Donald Trump won in a landslide or near landslide. And in that pursuit, Barack Obama and his agenda was repudiated. And not just this year. In the 2010 midterms, the 2014 midterms, and this election.” CountryWinningCollegeVoteElectionBarack Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If we have a foreign country, which it appears that we do, interfering in an election in any way, we need to know that, and we need to do everything we can to make sure that never happens again. If the bigger questions of collusion or whatever from this administration are true, this country needs to know it and action needs to be taken.” CountryActionTakenElectionInterfere Author:Patty Murray
“We want perfect elections, not just any kind of elections. And it's the electoral commission that organizes elections in the country - this is what most people forget. We have an independent commission which, acccording to our constitution, is in charge of organizing elections.” PeopleKindCountryPerfectForgetConstitutionIndependentElectionOrganize Author:Joseph Kabila
“And in the wake of Trump's elections, there have been reports across the country of intimidation, harassment and violence against those very groups. So if Trump is serious about unifying the country, if this is a thing he wants to do, then I think he needs to immediately speak against these acts of intimidation, harassment and violence that are happening to some degree in the name of the campaign that he ran.” ThinkingCountrySpeakViolenceSeriousElectionRanHarassmentIntimidation Author:Newt Gingrich
“We have Americans who are voting for someone in whom they have confidence, about whom they have hope, because at after the election 2016 whoever wins is going to have to govern. And when you look at the tenor of this campaign, and when you look at the way people feel about these candidates and how partisan our country is for starters, how does the winner govern? I mean that's the real, real problem.” PeopleMeanRealCountryProblemWinningElectionWinnerVotingHave ConfidenceHaving Hope Author:Frank Bruni
“The problem is that people are pulling farther apart, rather than make an effort to get back together. There have been remarkable moments that united this country. It makes everyone feel relieved. Then because of economic stress, political shifts, we get wrenched apart again. I think it's cyclical. I am an optimist by nature. There are moments, the period after 9/11, the way we responded. The election of Barack Obama. There are moments where the country felt good about being American. I'm waiting for that to happen again.” PeopleThinkingCountryMomentsProblemTogetherPoliticalWaitingEffortEconomicStressElectionBarackRemarkableOptimistRelieved Author:John Lithgow
“I do not believe that Russians changed the outcome of the election. I want to be clear about that. But I do think that it is very - some of the things we saw are very reminiscent of the active measures that Russian intelligence and before that Soviet intelligence agencies used to try to undermine the government or individual politicians in foreign countries.” ThinkingTryingBelieveCountryIndividualChangedPoliticianElectionSoviet Author:Marco Rubio
“This was a big leak that WikiLeaks published, and it was hacking software developed by the CIA and the FBI that was able to leave fingerprints of other countries. So the CIA could hack our election to make it look like the Russians did it.” CountryElectionSoftwareCiaFbi Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When there is this giant narrative, when there is a singular story out there like there is right now about the Russians hacking the election so that Donald Trump would win - when the media is pumping it and the Democrats are quoting the media and the media's quoting the Democrats and it's just like a giant blanket thrown all over the country - don't believe the story. It's made up! It is a script. I call the daily soap opera.” BelieveCountryWinningElectionDemocratBlanketQuoting Author:Rush Limbaugh
“In foreign countries, when people see what Donald Trump is saying on Twitter since the election and seeing what he's saying in these calls with foreign leaders, they take everything very seriously and they take everything very literally.” PeopleCountryLeaderElection Author:Geoff Dyer
“It is important to show up. Showing up at marches and rallies and town halls and protests. I remember I was really quite sad from Election Night last year until Jan. 20. And then I remember waking up Jan. 21 and seeing these amazing Women's Marches across America, and I thought to myself, That's the country that I know. And that's a larger populist movement that I'm seeing than Donald Trump's relatively small populist movement. And that gave me a lot of hope and energy, and from that day forward, I've taken a view that we'll flip the House next year.” ImportantCountryRememberNightHouseEnergyTakenWake UpElectionProtestMarchPopulistAmazing Woman Author:Ted Lieu
“Take cyber-capabilities. We have way more cyber-capability than Russia do. We could intervene in their elections easily. We choose not to do so because we're a different country. That's what Obama was trying to say.” TryingDifferentCountryElection Author:Michael McFaul
“After the Donald Trump's election, there was a surge of hate crimes. We saw acts of vandalism, certainly a lot of slander on social media and, in fact, in the last few months, as you mentioned, a number of bomb threats, almost 70, to dozens of Jewish community centers across the country.” CountryHateCommunityCrimeElectionThreatSocial MediaSlander Author:Jonathan Greenblatt
“Last election shows that there's a big discrepancy between two parts of the country. That discrepancy also exists in France, but we've had the National Front for forty years, and it only took Trump one year to get elected. Very fast. That's the surprising thing. In France we thought everybody liked Obama, but maybe the media were lying. Maybe they didn't.” CountryLyingElectionForty Author:Michel Houellebecq
“Voting in this country has essentially been relegated to a very fledging group of election officials, who receive no training and operate on shoestring budgets on one hand, and political consultants whose job is to get their candidates elected on the other. And when you have that kind of scenario, it's really hard to describe yourself as a vibrant democracy. It's an embarrassment.” KindCountryPoliticalDemocracyTrainingElectionBeing YourselfVotingEmbarrassment Author:DeForest Soaries
“I am deeply convinced that no interference from the outside, in any country, even a small one, let alone in such a vast and great power as the United States, can influence the final outcome of the elections. It is not possible. Ever.” CountryInfluenceElectionInterferenceGreat Power Author:Vladimir Putin
“President Trump has no higher priority than the safety and security of the American people. And he made it clear in this election, particularly in the wake of the terrorist attack in Paris where individuals had used a refugee program to gain access to that country.” PeopleCountryIndividualPresidentSecurityProgramElectionSafetyPrioritiesTerroristRefugeeSafety And Security Author:Mike Pence
“The Sanders campaign showed that a candidate with mildly progressive programs could win the nomination, maybe the election, even without the backing of the major funders or any media support. There's good reason to suppose that Sanders would have won the nomination had it not been for shenanigans of the Obama-Clinton party managers. He is now the most popular political figure in the country by a large margin.” CountryReasonPoliticalWinningPartySupportProgramElectionProgressive Author:Noam Chomsky
“Thousands of people marched in cities around the country to demand that Donald Trump release his taxes. He dismissed them with a tweet: "Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies. The election is over."” PeopleCountryTaxesElectionTweet Author:John Yang
“I still remember how upset I was in the aftermath of President Obama's election, where people in Republican leadership didn't say that, "Hey, I want to focus on the issues and values of our country," but, "My number one goal is to see that Barack Obama is not a two term president." That to me is outrageous. I would never do that. My number one goal is to fight to protect poor people, ethnic and religious minorities, working class folks.” PeopleCountryRememberValuesFightingGoalPresidentTermReligiousPoorFocusRepublicanProtectElectionBarackUpsetPresident ObamaWorking ClassPoor People Author:Cory Booker
“The middle class in the rich countries is where the political game is being played. They are voting in elections in the U.S., U.K., France and Germany. They are working people in the upper part of the global income distribution. They might on average be happy that the Chinese are doing well, but they are not happy that the Chinese are doing well relative to them.” PeopleCountryPoliticalRichElectionChineseVotingMiddle ClassRelativeNot Happy Author:Branko Milanovic
“I joined presidential campaign in the summer, and I can tell you that all the contact by the Donald Trump campaign and associates was with the American people. We were fully engaged with taking his message to make America great again all across this country. That's why he won in a landslide election.” PeopleCountrySummerElectionPresidentialPresidential Campaign Author:Mike Pence
“Campaigns and elections are not a game. They're not a game. They're about trying to change America. We're the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We should not be having Flint, Michigan, or African-American communities all over this country where schools are failing. Those are the issue we got to pay attention to and not at this as come kind of silly game. And that is the critique that bothers me. That's what bothers me about media coverage.” WorldTryingKindCountrySchoolCommunityAttentionFailingElectionSillyPay AttentionBotherWorld HistoryCritiqueTrying To Change Author:Bernie Sanders
“To say that most recent elections are rigged and all these votes are stolen, that`s like saying we never landed on the moon, frankly. That`s how silly it is. No. I don`t think that`s good for our country. The problem is, it does create doubt in people`s minds. And I worry about 25% of Americans who may say when an election is over, it was stolen.” PeopleThinkingMindCountryProblemWorryDoubtMoonVoteElectionSillyOver It Author:John Kasich
“Maybe that's one of the virtues of the 2016 election that we're going through is all of this racism and xenophobia and sexism and whatever else you want to say is being exposed, maybe that's a blessing. I'm trying to look at the positive side of what's been happening in our country, which is frightening.” TryingCountryVirtueBlessingRacismElectionSexismFrightening Author:Annette Bening
“Obama has been trying or was trying to transform the country away from the way it was founded, and it is causing misery, and it is causing a lack of optimism about the future. It's resulted in massive student debt, worthless college degrees, no job opportunities. That's what the election of Trump was all about, trying to reverse this trend.” TryingCountryOpportunityStudentsCollegeOptimismElectionMiseryWorthlessCollege Degree Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We imagine what this country is, but quite clearly, this country is a mystery. I mean, one of the reasons I did the election ads is, I thought I could learn something. Like, what the hell is going on? I think anybody - particularly a person of leftist persuasion such as myself - who stops and thinks even for a moment, realizes that something strange is going on and we don't quite get it.” ThinkingMeanCountryReasonMomentsRealizingHellImagineMysteryStrangeElectionPersuasion Author:Errol Morris
“There's a lot of sensitivity about federal involvement in elections around the country. I think that it would be appropriate to consider - whether there should be some basic federal minimum standards to the cybersecurity around the election infrastructure. We have federal standards for aviation security, for auto safety, for a lot of things, and elections are pretty important in the country.” ThinkingImportantCountrySecurityElectionSafetyAviationSensitivityInvolvement Author:Jeh Johnson
“America was my home for a very long time, and it's a fascinating, pioneering country that many people look to. In the recent past it hasn't been doing very well, but there's a great new hope now with the election of Obama. America took a very big leap there and proved that it still has the edge as far as being able to do things many other countries may find difficult.” PeopleLongCountryHomePastDifficultElectionLeap Author:Cat Stevens
“America is very conservative. It is not a very modern country. If you look at the population, they are very serious, very nice, very good people. I love the Americans. But they are too serious to be modern. But it's not too late. With the last election, America has proven that it's a very young country at heart. We have big hopes in the world that we can again love America for what it is.” PeopleWorldHeartCountryNiceModernSeriousElectionVery GoodConservativeGood PeopleVery Nice Author:Luigi Colani
“I decided to go into politics because my children are growing up, and I became worried about the ways things are being handled in this country. I felt there's a lost generation of people who feel misrepresented, and that they're doing their best for the country but the country is not doing its best for them. We are all looking at our children and wondering whether or not they will see their future in Israel. They looked at the country before the last elections and saw it becoming more and more Orthodox. There was a strong sense of unfairness.” PeopleChildrenCountryStrongWonderGrowing UpOur ChildrenElectionWorriedMy ChildrenOrthodoxUnfairness Author:Yair Lapid
“During the election, I traveled all across the country. I like my country and the French. I love talking with them and convincing them. It is my job each day to fight for my compatriots. But also to not succumb to demagoguery and lies or agree to favors.” CountryLyingFightingElectionAgreeConvincingDemagoguery Author:Emmanuel Macron
“We need election systems that are free from fraud, discrimination, and partisan influence and that are more, not less, accessible to the citizens of this country.” CountryInfluenceElectionDiscriminationFraud Author:Eric Holder
“Putin doesn't conduct elections in the Western sense of elections. This is more accurately probably described as a plebiscite, where people are supposed to express their support for him. The Russian system is not unique in this respect, but it is rather interesting. Here, in the West, the impression that people have is that Putin runs the whole country. This is not so, at all. To a certain extent, you could say that he runs the Kremlin, and this means that it's, in some situations, hard to tell whether it's him running the Kremlin, or the people around him running him.” PeopleMeanCountryRunningInterestingSituationSupportUniqueElectionWesternImpression Author:Mikhail Khodorkovsky
“Here is what Hillary Clinton said. Crooked Hillary said, "You know, when we talk about the Supreme Court" - fake smile - "it really raises the central issue in this election, namely what kind of country are we going to be." Well, she's right about that, actually, but not in the way she means. "What kind of opportunities will we provide our citizens." The Supreme Court's not about that. Supreme Court is the law, and their cases are not about opportunities being provided for our citizens.” KindMeanCountryOpportunityElectionClintonFakeSupreme Court Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Russians succeeded, I believe, beyond their wildest expectations. Their first objective in the election was to sow discontent, discord, and disruption in our political life, and they have succeeded to a fare-thee-well. They have accelerated, amplified the polarization and the divisiveness in this country and they've undermined our democratic system. They wanted to create doubt in the minds of the public about our government and about our system; and they succeeded to a fare-thee-well. They've been emboldened and they will continue to do this.” MindBelieveCountryPoliticalI BelieveDoubtExpectationsElectionDemocraticDiscontent Author:James R. Clapper
“We still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary. They want a gradual coup. If Orbán stayed in power in Hungary or if Kaczynski were to win an election in our country, it would be dangerous. Both men have an authoritarian idea of government; democracy is merely a façade.” MenDifferentCountryWinningDemocracyDangerousPoliticianElectionStrive Author:Adam Michnik
“I finally stopped fretting and tried to think of Donald Trump's election as an opportunity. I didn't shift my thesis but I added some lines, in the Blurred Lines introduction, to my description of the progressive awakening that has happened in this country over the last five years - "Trump's presidency is a macroaggression". I wanted Trump to be a specter from the book's outset.” ThinkingCountryOpportunityElectionAwakeningProgressiveIntroductionThesis Author:Vanessa Grigoriadis
“They believe the less votes the better. Republicans like to suppress votes because they believe they do better in small turnouts. Characteristically, Democrats would rather lose an election with a huge turnout than win one with a small turnout because we think that the values of democracy have to be placed above the interests of the party. The reason that Republicans are such failures at governing is because they place the interests of their party ahead of the interests of the country.” ThinkingBelieveCountryReasonValuesWinningInterestPartyDemocracyRepublicanVoteElectionDemocrat Author:Howard Dean
“Economically and politically, Germany is extremely stable. There are countries with functioning governments whose institutions don't work. My only concern is about Europe. There's a risk we will run out of time. We have been blessed with a pro-European French president, but we are also approaching the next elections for the European Parliament in 2019, and it will be important for pro-European parties present a credible answer to the anti-Europeans on the left and the right.” ImportantCountryRunningPresidentPartyRiskConcernElectionBlessed Author:Sigmar Gabriel
“Everybody loves a cliffhanger. There's great drama in elections, and the sporting analogy is very apt. There is a lot at stake for both parties and for the country. And CNN will be there to report it all, no matter how long it goes.” LongCountryPartyDramaElection Author:Andrew Morse
“I think we may be seeing the beginnings of a resurgence of civic-mindedness in this country. Hopefully the younger generations, which came out in record numbers during the last presidential election, will pass their enthusiasm on to their children.” ThinkingMayChildrenCountryLastsNumbersRecordsSeeingGenerationsElectionEnthusiasmHopefullyPresidentialCivicsYounger GenerationPresidential ElectionResurgence Author:Sandra Day O'Connor