“The election is over, and even though there are people who have different ideologies and beliefs, from now on we must all embrace each other, creating a harmonious and unified new Taiwan through our love and tolerance.” PeopleDifferentBeliefCreatingElectionEmbraceToleranceIdeologyOur LoveHarmoniousUnifiedTaiwan Author:Chen Shui-bian
“It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.” PeopleGivingI CanDifferentAbleChoicesNextResultsSituationLeaderTakenOne ThingElectionMinistersPrimeContestsPrime MinisterPakistanBannedAlready Taken Author:Benazir Bhutto
“Elections in L.A. are so different. Here you've got politicians with phony smiles making false promises to voters with fake boobs and bad toupees.” DifferentPoliticsPoliticianPromiseElectionFakeVotersPhonyFalse Promises Author:Jay Leno
“That's why we have senators and members of congress from every state. That's why we have elections. Because the people speak and there are different viewpoints out there. It doesn't mean just because we're members of one party or another, doesn't mean that we behave monolithically. It means that we will express our view points.” PeopleMeanDifferentStatesSpeakViewsPartyMembersElectionCongressBehaveSenatorsViewpoints Author:Mike Lee
“I want people of faith on my side, not just voting on election day but by hoisting me up by getting down on your knees and lifting me up in prayer. Those who have a different view of things are already organizing...Will you stand in the gap with those of us who believe there's a God, and a God who is strong? We can stand in the gap together and speak about issues we believe in and we will be victorious.” PeopleWantBelieveDifferentTogetherSpeakStrongSidesPrayerViewsIssuesElectionScaryKneesVotingGapsLiftingElection DayDifferent Views Author:Rick Perry
“All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held 'elections.' Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.” YearsDifferentCoursesCallingElectionEmpiresDifferent ThingsSovietThrough The Years Author:Benazir Bhutto
“I know a whole generation has been raised on the notion of multiculturalism; that all civilizations are just different. No! Not always. Sometimes things are better! Rule of law is better than autocracy and theocracy; equality of the sexes, better; protection of minorities, better; free speech, better; free elections, better; free appliances with large purchases, better! Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.” KnowsHas BeensDifferentSometimesWholeLawSexGenerationsCivilizationSpeechElectionRaisedNotionProtectionMinoritiesIntoleranceFree SpeechTolerateMulticulturalismRule Of LawAppliancesTheocracyAutocracyFree Elections Author:Bill Maher
“To Americans, Washington is a giant cesspool. It's no wonder almost half of Americans (47%) now agree with the statement 'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.' It's us (the people) versus them (the politicians), and it doesn't matter what primary color you wear [...] I was involved in the 1994 elections, and I will never forget the arrogance of the Democrats back then, and how they refused to accept the electoral reality facing them. It is no different today.” PeopleDifferentMatterRealityTodayForgetHalfAcceptingWonderHellColorInvolvedPoliticianElectionAgreeMadDemocratStatementsPrimariesGiantsArroganceNever ForgetVersusPrimary Colors Author:Frank Luntz
“Our budget also reflects key components of our campaign. It's very much focused on stabilizing public services, restoring stability to public services and investing in job creation and economic diversification and, generally speaking, acting as a cushion during this economy, something fundamentally different than what the other parties proposed in the last election.” DifferentJobsLastsPartyActingEconomyEconomicCreationKeysElectionInvestingFocusedCampaignsBudgetsStabilityComponentsPublic ServiceRestoringCushionsDiversificationJob Creation Author:Rachel Notley
“A movement election is a different type of election. It's an election where the people start moving into a direction because they think the country is failing or going down the tubes or the establishment has failed them.” PeopleThinkingDifferentCountryMovingFailingMovementTypeElectionEstablishmentTubes Author:Laura Ingraham
“At the same time we receive different signals all around that in fact, everything is fine. The same situation occurred with the previous administrations during the election campaigns, claims that everything will be restored later. I do not think it matches the level of responsibility shouldered by the United States. I suppose it should be more sound, calm and balanced.” ThinkingShouldDifferentStatesFactsSoundLevelsUnitedResponsibilitySituationUnited StatesFineClaimsElectionCalmCampaignsAdministrationBalancedSignals Author:Vladimir Putin
“The elections have a different platform, the town hall is the platform for it. But the other question behind all this is should I run for president?” ShouldDifferentRunningPresidentBehindsTownsElectionHallsPlatformsShould I Author:Werner Herzog
“I'm talking about the finding in October that is public now of 17 different intelligence agencies saying Russia tried to meddle with our elections.” DifferentTalkingFindingsElectionRussiaAgencyOctoberIntelligence Agencies Author:George Stephanopoulos
“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.” DifferentGovernmentPartyElectionFinalsDialoguePresidentialSyriaPresidential ElectionParliamentaryInterim Author:Bashar al-Assad
“If you look at this election, I feel like Donald Trump was speaking a different language to Hillary Clinton.” IfsFeelsLooksDifferentLanguageTrumpElectionClintonDifferent Languages Author:Trevor Noah
“What I said to Donald Trump was that what may work in generating enthusiasm or passion during elections may be different than what will work in terms of unifying the country and gaining the trust even of those who didn't support him.” MaySaidDifferentCountryPassionTermSupportTrumpElectionEnthusiasmUnifying Author:Barack Obama
“I don't regret the fervor, because I do believe, in the African American community but also for other communities, and I know from talking to people, for communities around the world, the election of an African American to the most powerful office on Earth meant things had changed, and not just in superficial ways. That in some irreversible way the world was different.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayBelieveDifferentEarthCommunityPowerfulTalkingChangedRegretOfficeElectionAround The WorldAfrican AmericanMost PowerfulSuperficialDon't RegretFervorIrreversible Author:Barack Obama
“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.” ThinkingWantImportantDifferentDoneCharacterRunningJobsCasesJudgmentElectionImportant ThingsDebateBarackPresidentialOpponentsSeatsAcceptableGood JobPresidential ElectionIncumbentsReelection Author:William Kristol
“Since the election [of Donald Trump], I've been thinking about a lot of theory. Lots of [Michel] Foucault and [Karl] Marx, thinking about different systems, thinking about power. Trying to figure out what I can take and learn from history as a tool for getting through whatever is happening right now, which feels very significant and major.” ThinkingFeelsTryingI CanDifferentFiguresTheoryTrumpRight NowMajorsHappeningsToolsElectionSignificantSystems Thinking Author:Morgan Parker
“The Indian voter today is very mature. He votes in one fashion in the Lok Sabha elections, he votes in a different manner in the State Assembly elections. We have seen this. In 2014, the General Elections conincided with the Odisha Assembly elections. The same electorate gave one judgement for Odisha and another judgement for Delhi. So this country's voter is very mature and we should trust his maturity.” ShouldDifferentCountryStatesTodayFashionVoteElectionIndianMaturityJudgementMatureVotersAssemblyElectorateDelhiGeneral Elections Author:Narendra Modi
“The membrane between where we are right now and a very different reality, is so much thinner than we like to think. Things can go back, and things can go to the side, and things can go to places where we might not even have been on guard that they might go. I think that if there is a great gift that this [Donald Trump] election gave us, is this sort of sense of vigilance, the sense that we have to remain on guard. We have to support our free press.” IfsThinkingHas BeensDifferentRealityMightSidesSupportTrumpRight NowElectionPressesVigilanceGreat GiftsFree PressMembranesDifferent Realities Author:Ben H. Winters
“I think there are a lot of factors going into an election. I think the bottom line is - is that Donald Trump is gonna be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America. And it's not necessarily profitable to sort of try to untangle all the different factors that went into it.” ThinkingTryingDifferentStatesAmericaPresidentLinesUnitedUnited StatesTrumpElectionBottomFactorsUnited States Of AmericaBottom LineProfitable Author:Barack Obama
“It could be another election where the alignments between Republicans and Democrats are different than they were this time and who a foreign country prefers.” DifferentCountryRepublicanElectionDemocratAlignmentForeign Countries Author:Barack Obama
“China and Russia play very different roles. They both are getting involved across the world in all different pockets. Their tentacles are everywhere. Russia is doing it through elections and through military actions and through trying to get involved in conversations. China is doing it economically. If you look at their infrastructure, they are everywhere in the world now and they want to continue to do that so that they have a stronghold.” IfsWorldWantTryingLooksDifferentPlayActionRolesMilitaryInvolvedConversationElectionChinaRussiaPocketsInfrastructureGet InvolvedTentaclesStrongholdsMilitary Action Author:Nikki Haley
“America is a different country, and it will forever be a different country, after the election of Donald Trump.” DifferentCountryForeverElection Author:Justin Simien
“I want people to start getting involved in voting for the Senate, Congress and local elections. I just want to see us get involved more in the political process especially when you see things like police brutality going on and different people complaining about the sheriffs whether it's in Ferguson or Missouri.” PeopleDifferentPoliticalPoliceElectionComplainingVotingGet InvolvedPolice Brutality Author:Charlamagne Tha God
“I think everybody's talking about like facts and truth and you know like that 'We're here to fact check' and all of that, that's the base material of journalism. You cannot have journalism without facts and truth. But if facts and truth were what actually you know sort of moved people's lives and moved their decision-making like the election would have had a different outcome.” ThinkingDifferentElectionMovedJournalism Author:Lydia Polgreen
“You don't feel you have the same voice in a presidential election if you live in a solid blue or a solid red state. I also don't think we've educated voters well on the different ways in which primaries work in different states. It doesn't need to be the case that you end up with one Democrat and one Republican, you have open primaries, you can have jungle primaries. There are various permutations and combinations of how to do this.” ThinkingDifferentRepublicanElectionDemocratVariousEducatedPresidentialJunglePresidential Election Author:Frank Bruni
“I would say that to vote for Trump was to at least overlook the fact that we're talking about someone with a record of misogyny and racist invective. And so that is what is troubling to a lot of people and that's what makes this election, among other things, makes this election very different than others is that those good, decent people over - at least overlooked a very, very sorry record of prejudice.” PeopleDifferentVotePrejudiceElectionSorryDecentRacistMisogyny Author:Jeffrey Goldberg
“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
“I think raise doubts that's what Russians are doing around the world. I think they're trying to do that. I think they're trying to cause everything to be in question. We see them playing in a lot of different elections and trying to do that, because that's all they've got.” ThinkingWorldTryingDifferentDoubtElection Author:Nikki Haley
“I used to love the election season'cause it's kind of fun. Everyone makes a big sport out of it with all these different news stories and everything. I like it better now that everybody knows all the candidates from the past 15 years. But it does get really ugly. It's ugly and it's pugilist.” KindDifferentPastFunSportsElectionUglyGet Real Author:Colin Quinn
“We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today's political leaders are still lacking of the vision. They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things. Even today the borders they're seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.” TryingDifferentProblemTodayMovingPoliticalTermInterestSituationLeaderVisionElectionSellingPopularity Author:Ai Weiwei
“The Trump election brought it the fore and made it possible for a number of different groups whose aim is to stop the teaching of critical thinking to to launch direct attacks.” ThinkingDifferentTeachingDirectAimElectionCritical Thinking Author:Joan Wallach Scott
“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
“There are people clamoring for the election of Donald Trump because they hate anyone whose skin is a slight shade different than theirs. They are calling for the eradication of Islam and want to build a wall along an arbitrary line that keeps Mexicans out of the land they probably have more of a right to cross than the people who now somehow think they have a right to be there.” PeopleThinkingDifferentHateWallSkinsElectionIslam Author:John Lurie
“With someone like Barack Obama, I think the whole America, the whole world will coalesce. Every election is about change, and change takes a long time because there are big issues that can't be changed overnight. But the one thing that will change dramatically is how we're viewed around the world. Once Obama is in there, the world will view Americans in an entirely different light. And that, to me, is a good thing.” ThinkingWorldLongDifferentChangedElectionGood ThingsBarack Author:Rob Reiner
“Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town that each individual vote really does matter, and several local races have been decided by as many votes as you can count on one hand.” PeopleDoeHas BeensDifferentMatterHandsBigsIndividualRaceCitiesOne ThingDecidedVoteTownsElectionLocalsBig CitiesElection Day Author:Susan Orlean
“An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as peas in the same pod.” IfsGivingTwoDifferentCountryNamesPartyAimElectionFirmPrincipalPeasDifferent Names Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Okay, Libya. President Obama supported the uprising, correct?... No, that's a different one. I've got to go back, got all this stuff twirling around in my head.” DifferentStuffPresidentOkayElectionPresident ObamaUprisingLibyaTwirling Author:Herman Cain