“If I may, to underline first of all that I am very much impressed that in spite of the very tough election campaign, this transition period in the United States of America follows democratic principles and is all about the American people. It's about the destiny of the American people.” PeopleIfsFirstsMayStatesAmericaUnitedPrinciplesDestinyUnited StatesPeriodsToughElectionDemocraticCampaignsSpiteTransitionImpressedUnited States Of America Author:Angela Merkel
“The fact that's why the prisons and stock in private prisons rose the very day after the election results [for Donald Trump] were announced. The fact that progress that was made for people of color, for women, for LGBTQ people, are all at risk.” PeopleMadeFactsResultsProgressRiskColorTrumpElectionPrisonRoseElection ResultsPrivate Prisons Author:Ava DuVernay
“The problem is that young people are less likely to vote than older people. What results is a situation in which sometimes the elections don't fully reflect the views of the American population.” PeopleSometimesProblemYoungResultsViewsSituationVoteElectionPopulationOlder People Author:Barack Obama
“The values that we share - freedom of speech, freedom of religious practice, freedom for civil society, free and fair elections, all the innovation that's been created through a market-based economy - those things are ultimately going to be the path for us to continue into a better future. I hope that, despite some of the challenges we have, that people appreciate that.” PeopleValuesChallengesReligiousPracticeEconomyPathShareSpeechFairsAppreciateInnovationElectionDespiteFreedom Of SpeechCivil SocietyBetter FutureReligious Practices Author:Barack Obama
“I think that our politics everywhere are gonna be going through this bumpy phase. But as long as we stay true to our Democratic principles, as long as elections have integrity, as long as we respect freedom of speech, freedom of religion, as long as there are checks and balances in our governments so that the people have the ability to not just make judgments about how well government is serving them but also change governments if they're not serving them well, then I have confidence that over the long term, progress will continue.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsLongGovernmentTermAbilityPrinciplesProgressBalanceIntegritySpeechJudgmentElectionDemocraticChecksLong TermServingPhasesFreedom Of SpeechHave ConfidenceStay TrueFreedom Of Religion Author:Barack Obama
“[People] think that they run the world. They think this election's an aberration. They think that [Donald] Trump is subhuman and a gigantic accident and that they're all threatened.” PeopleThinkingWorldRunningTrumpElectionAccidentsThreatenedAberration Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I'm one of these people that, once you have had your election and you have elected your candidate, let's see what actually happens.” PeopleHappensElectionCandidates Author:Tony Blair
“I don't do jokes about elections so that's probably why it went okay for me, except for the crazy people that are hate-crime people.” PeopleHateCrazyCrimeJokesOkayElectionHate CrimeCrazy People Author:Jen Kirkman
“The Arab spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence and everybody else wants it. How about us, when do we get it, when do we make our move? And you have a situation where someone has been in power for decades, where the integrity of elections, democracy and security have really not been debated or discussed and most people suspect that elections are rigged and that the democratic rotation that elections are supposed to ensure doesn't really happen. And when this goes on for a while you are sitting on a powder keg.” PeopleWantHas BeensCountryHappensMovingBitsProcessSituationDemocracySecurityGoes OnIntegritySpringSittingElectionIndependenceDemocraticDecadesSuspectsPowderRiggedRotationArab SpringKegs Author:Kofi Annan
“My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation. Ideally not put themselves up for re-election and allow the system to work.” PeopleTwoWould BeThreeTermMy OwnAcceptingAdviceOfficeElectionDemocraticRotation Author:Kofi Annan
“I know from my conversations with people in the administration that every world leader that Obama met in Berlin, in Peru, in Athens was extremely alarmed by Trump's election. That very much includes Angela Merkel.” PeopleKnowsWorldLeaderTrumpMetsConversationElectionAdministrationBerlinWorld LeaderAthensPeruAngela Author:David Remnick
“I think Donald Trump is going to try as best he can to make sure that he delivers not only to the people who voted for him but for the people at large and the good thing is that there are going to be elections coming up so there's a built-in incentive for him to try to do that.” PeopleThinkingTryingTrumpBuiltElectionGood ThingsIncentives Author:Barack Obama
“That's where the outrage should be, not old news, but the fact that we are preparing for the transfer of power. and we have been working with President [Barack] Obama, hand in glove, and I think that they - including the president - should step up and get his people in line and tell them to grow up and accept the fact that they lost the election.” PeopleThinkingShouldHas BeensFactsHandsLostGrowsPresidentLinesAcceptingStepsGrowing UpNewsElectionIncludingBarackPreparingOutrageTransfersGlovesStep UpPresident Barack ObamaOld News Author:John Lewis
“The Electoral College said that [Donald Trump] is the president, he's the president.But as a president, you also have to build. And if I'm sitting there and part of his team and I go look, we're probably not going to win the next election with 46 percent of the vote, so people like John Lewis and all these other groups, you have to start building bridges toward, this week was a disaster because he is burning bridges, not building them.” PeopleIfsLooksSaidNextWinningPresidentGroupsWeekTeamBuildingCollegeTrumpPercentSittingVoteElectionDisasterBurningBridgesElectoral CollegeBuilding BridgesBurning Bridges Author:Jason Chaffetz
“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
“We, as Americans, have an interest in ensuring that the only people who get to vote for our elected leaders are our citizens, and not some foreign people who think that they have an interest in skewing our election in one direction or another.” PeopleThinkingInterestLeaderCitizensVoteElectionOne DirectionElected Leaders Author:Samantha Power
“I think there were two messages in last year's election. One is pretty obvious. People were mad as hell at the president [Barack Obama] - and wanted to send a message. We all got that. Our new members were also hearing, and I was hearing as well, that people didn't like the fact that the Congress was dysfunctional. Now they may have been confused about where the dysfunctionality was cause the president kept pointing to the House. Factually, that's not accurate. The dysfunction was in the Senate.” PeopleThinkingYearsWellsMayHas BeensTwoFactsWantedLastsHouseCausesPresidentHellMembersMessagesElectionMadCongressObviousHearingBarackConfusedSenateAccurateLast YearPointingPresident Barack ObamaDysfunction Author:Mitch McConnell
“I've campaigned for people. I've campaigned across the country for people. I have supported people in local elections. I do work with groups and causes. So, I feel like I am a participant and a civically-engaged citizen.” PeopleFeelsCountryCausesGroupsCitizensElectionLocalsEngagedParticipants Author:Caroline Kennedy
“I think the election of Donald Trump, if you want to call it an election, was unimaginable to most people, which is part of how it happened.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantHappenedTrumpElectionUnimaginable Author:David Swanson
“When there are elections, people tend to vote for peace. They don't vote for war. So Americans want to promote those principles around the world.” PeopleWorldWantWarPrinciplesVoteElectionAround The World Author:Mitt Romney
“The people that can't win elections, outside of Barack Obama, the people on the Democrat side who cannot win elections, who do not have the votes to stop Donald Trump at all in a constitutional sense, have to now behave outside the Constitution in order to stop the duly elected president of the United States about whom they can produce no evidence that his election was fraudulent.” PeopleStatesOrderWinningSidesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesProduceTrumpEvidenceVoteConstitutionElectionDemocratBarackBehaveCan't Win Author:Rush Limbaugh
“In The United States, the only real change I know has been Instant Runoff, which is usually applied to municipal elections. I see no real improvement. There's another aspect which comes out of the two-party system, which the primary, a funny kind of two-stage election. And people certainly have complained.” PeopleKnowsKindHas BeensTwoRealStatesUnitedPartyUnited StatesStageAspectElectionImprovementPrimariesInstantReal ChangeTwo Party System Author:Kenneth Arrow
“On many, many issues, Hillary Clinton's views are progressive. In many areas, they are awesome. Where they're not progressive, we've got to push her, and the day after the election, I will mobilize millions of people to make sure that we make her the most progressive president that she can be.” PeoplePresidentViewsMillionsIssuesAreasElectionClintonProgressive Author:Bernie Sanders
“Governments must not run only for elections. The government should be a bona fide attempt of meeting the demands and expectations of the common people. Elections should just be a bi-product.” PeopleShouldGovernmentRunningCommonProductsDemandExpectationsElectionMeetings Author:Narendra Modi
“[Barack] Obama won two elections but certainly the first one not because people wanted that agenda of his. He never told them what his agenda was. Not as it played out. Obama was something other.” PeopleFirstsTwoWantedElectionBarackAgendas Author:Rush Limbaugh
“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.” PeopleStatesThreeNextHousePresidentPartyWonderStupidMonthsKingsElectionDemocraticBarackPresidentialSecretarySpeculationDemocratic PartyPresident Barack ObamaThree MonthsPresidential Election Author:Bill Ayers
“The first election in which all South Africans took part was in April, 1994. There were long queues [lines] of employers and employees, black and white. In the sense of Africans, Coloreds and Indians - when I talk about blacks, I mean those three. Blacks and whites mingled to vote without any hitches. Many people would have expected a great deal of tension, clashes and violence, but it did not occur.” PeopleFirstsMeanLongThreeBlackLinesWhiteDealsViolenceVoteElectionSouthExpectedTensionEmployeeBlack And WhiteSouth AfricaEmployersAprilClashQueues Author:Nelson Mandela
“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.” PeopleLongIndividualBalanceVoteElectionPresidentialPuzzlesEconomistPresidential Election Author:Robert H. Frank
“Who's driving this business that the Russians hacked the election? It's the Democrat Party. It's Hillary Clinton. It's Obama. It's all those people who just can't accept that they lost.” PeopleLostPartyAcceptingElectionClintonDemocratDrivingHacked Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The people that voted for Donald Trump, the vast majority of them really thought that if Hillary Clinton won this election, that was it, that was America, say good-bye to it. She would have had the Supreme Court nominations for all the people retiring and a bunch of the left would have retired, and who knows who else. It would have been the ongoing opening up the country to outsiders and expanding the government to take care of outsiders, who are called immigrants.” PeopleIfsKnowsHas BeensCountryGovernmentCareAmericaLeftTrumpElectionMajorityCourtClintonTake CareSupremeBunchOpeningImmigrantsRetiringOutsidersSupreme CourtExpandingRetiredOngoingByeGood ByeNominationsOpening UpSaying Good Bye Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You look across this country people are fed up with Washington. This [2016] election was the American people saying, enough already with the corruption in Washington and it's both parties.” PeopleLooksCountryEnoughPartyElectionCorruptionFedsFed UpEnough Already Author:Ted Cruz
“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.” PeopleCountryAmericaLostWillingRepublicanThousandMessagesVoteElectionDemocratPresidentialSeatsEstablishmentPresidential ElectionMidtermsMidterm Elections Author:Rush Limbaugh
“This [2016] election was lost because a total of 70,000 people - out of 120-130 million votes - in the Rust belt, but as a result America is in the calamity.” PeopleAmericaLostResultsMillionsVoteElectionBeltsCalamityRust Author:Van Jones
“We're gonna need more than winning elections; we're gonna need to change the way people think, and they're not gonna change what they think if there's no counter to the way liberalism is presented in the pop culture.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayNeedsCultureWinningElectionPopsLiberalismPop CultureNeed A ChangeWinning Elections Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Elections are always a little bit funny. People start saying things and emphasizing differences. After the election, my hope is, is that people start emphasizing what we have in common.” PeopleLittlesBitsDifferencesCommonLittle BitElectionFunny People Author:Barack Obama
“We can't continue assuming that politics is something which is decided elsewhere by distant leaders in a distant capital. Protest is insufficient too. If people who are willing to put time into demonstrations also prove willing to work on behalf of candidates in local elections - or to become candidates themselves - they will achieve far more. If all of this upheaval provokes more involvement, then we have a slim chance of ending up with more vibrant democracies eventually. The alternative, as you've hinted, is that democracy fails altogether.” PeopleIfsChanceLeaderDemocracyFailingAchieveWillingProveDecidedElectionAssumingLocalsAlternativesCandidatesProtestElsewhereProvokingBehalfInvolvementDemonstrationInsufficientSlimUpheaval Author:Anne Applebaum
“The other reason why people don't take a stand, which is very true in this election, is looking at [Donald] Trump and fearing reprisal, fearing reprisal from someone who is seeking the highest, most powerful role in the land, who has had a history of doing everything from attacks, threats and lawsuits and who has a complete kind of vengeful, narcissistic behavior, which makes people legitimately worried, almost like a schoolyard bully, that if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too?” PeopleIfsKindReasonPowerfulStepsRolesLandTrumpBehaviorHighestElectionThreatSeekingWorriedReason WhyMost PowerfulBullyNarcissisticStep UpLawsuitVery TrueVengefulReprisal Author:Reid Hoffman
“We do not force things on people. That's not how we want things to eventuate. That's not how we want things to happen. We have what we consider to be, anyway, a respect for our form of government, a constitutional republic. We believe in it. We want legitimate mandates. We win an election, we want it to be because the genuine majority of people who share our beliefs. We don't think we accomplish anything by forcing something on people. But that's not the way the left looks at this at all. They can only get what they want by forcing it on people.” PeopleThinkingWayWantBelieveLooksGovernmentHappensFormWinningBeliefLeftForceShareElectionMajorityAccomplishGenuineRepublicForms Of GovernmentMandates Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Jews have a powerful ally, America, but they do not really have a bigger family in the same way that there is a European family or an Arab-Muslim family. People who fail to understand this ambivalence will never understand this country. They will not be able to understand how Netanyahu could win the last election by saying the Iranians are coming, Islamic State (IS) is coming, the Arabs are coming, and the whole world hates us anyway.” PeopleWorldWayCountryStatesWholeAbleLastsAmericaHateWinningPowerfulFailingBiggerElectionJewWhole WorldIslamicAlliesAmbivalenceIslamic StateMuslim Family Author:Amos Oz
“I think the right way to do this is just to step up and do it, so I actually think we'll see more of that over the next coming weeks, because I think they'll say, "We'd like to be good for business and quiet on politics, but this is too urgent, it is too much of a key crisis in who we are going to become as Americans. We can risk too much, and so we have to step forward." And I think you will see more and more people stepping forward, like Howard Schultz, Steve Case and other folks, in order to try to make a difference in this [Donald Trump] election.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingOrderNextDifferencesStepsCasesToo MuchRiskWeekKeysTrumpQuietElectionCrisisFolksBe GoodWho We AreMaking A DifferenceRight WayUrgentStep UpSteps Forward Author:Reid Hoffman
“While there were many factors in the 2016 election, from false news to voter suppression and Russian hacking, the question is why so many people responded to Donald Trump's demagoguery.” PeopleTrumpNewsElectionFactorsVotersSuppressionHackingDemagogueryVoter Suppression Author:Riane Eisler
“There's all kinds of conservative donors. The Koch brothers are big donors. There's all kinds of them. But none of them have actively organized hate groups that run around and protest and try to upset people and get in as close as they can to their lives and the way they live them and make a nuisance of themselves. That's not how the right has always sought to win elections.” PeopleWayTryingKindBigsRunningHateWinningGroupsBrotherElectionConservativeAll KindsUpsetOrganizedProtestNuisanceDonorsHate Groups Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There was a free election in Palestine, but it came out the wrong way. So instantly, the United States and Israel with Europe tagging along, moved to punish the Palestinian people, and punish them harshly, because they voted the wrong way in a free election. That's accepted here in the West as perfectly normal. That illustrates the deep hatred and contempt for democracy among western elites, so deep-seated they can't even perceive it when it's in front of their eyes. You punish people severely if they vote the wrong way in a free election.” PeopleIfsWayStatesEyeUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyFrontsNormalEuropeHatredVoteElectionMovedWestWesternIsraelAcceptedPerceiveContemptElitesPalestinianPalestineWrong WayPerfectly NormalFree Elections Author:Noam Chomsky
“One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.” PeopleKnowsMeanSportsDemocracyElectionAssumingPakistan Author:Imran Khan
“In Cuba the elections for the powers of the State comes from the people, first it comes from meetings of the citizens at the base. In Cuba we call them blocks, the divisions of a city that is the term we use. Several blocks of neighborhoods that live in the same area gather in assemblies that are stipulated by law. In those assemblies the people choose freely among themselves who will represent them. The criteria takes into account the candidates characteristics, including if they are hardworking, If they are good people, if they have a clean past, and money has no bearing on who is nominated.” PeopleIfsFirstsStatesUsePastLawTermCitiesCitizensAreasAccountsElectionCleanMeetingsIncludingBlockCharacteristicsCandidatesNeighborhoodDivisionGood PeopleCriteriaCubaAssemblyHardworking Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“Cuba is not like bourgeois democracy the ones that imposes the blockade to make Cuba change. We have direct elections. Here they put people on a list and then tell the people supposedly what they have done so they can be elected. That is the difference and why we say our democracy is truly participatory and popular.” PeopleDoneDifferencesDemocracyDirectElectionListsCubaBourgeoisBlockades Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“We do not have elections. But the great majority of the Cuban people supports its government.” PeopleGovernmentSupportElectionMajorityCuban Author:Che Guevara
“I think that the risk to all the progress we've made was at stake in the election because not just the president-elect but a lot of members of Congress, including now the Speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader, have said that their principal agenda was to undo a lot of this progress. But as I've been talking about over the last several days when it comes to health care, the gains that we've made are there. Twenty million people have health insurance that didn't have it before. The uninsured rate is the lowest it's ever been.” PeopleThinkingMadeSaidCareLastsHousePresidentTalkingLeaderMillionsProgressRiskMembersGainsTwentiesElectionMajorityRateIncludingCongressHealth CareAgendasStakesSenateSpeakersPrincipalLowestMajority Leader Author:Barack Obama
“So Americans do want their presidents, by and large, you want them to be people who get things done and have experience. That's going to be Trump's big disadvantage going into this election, because people are going to be looking back and saying, we've got the guy without the experience who said the things that sounded good. And guess what? That hasn't worked out for us too well.” PeopleWantWellsSaidDoneBigsGuyPresidentTrumpElectionLooking BackThings DoneDisadvantages Author:Karl Rove
“People send me e-mails saying, "You're a movie critic. You don't know anything about politics." Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.” PeopleKnowsYearsWellsPrayingElectionCriticsKneesMailDaddyTrumanMovie Critic Author:Roger Ebert