“What may worry [Donald] Trump, the latest Gallup poll. It shows just 44 percent of Americans approve of how he's handling the transition, almost 40 points below President [Barack] Obama was before his first inauguration. Even George W. Bush after that bitterly contested 2000 election was at 61 percent.” FirstsMayShowsPresidentWorryTrumpPercentElectionBarackTransitionPollsPresident Barack ObamaInauguration Author:George Stephanopoulos
“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
“I mean Donald Trump is a legitimate president. He won fair and square. He didn't win the election because of Russian interference.” MeanWinningPresidentTrumpFairsElectionSquaresInterference Author:Jason Chaffetz
“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
“Candidates run for election on campaign promises, but once they're elected they renege on those promises, which happened with President [Barack] Obama on Guantánamo, the surveillance programs and investigating the crimes of the Bush administration. These were very serious campaign promises that were not fulfilled.” RunningPresidentHappenedCrimeSeriousPromiseProgramElectionCampaignsAdministrationBarackCandidatesFulfilledSurveillancePresident Barack ObamaInvestigating Author:Edward Snowden
“Even without voting, illegal aliens do affect who gets elected president, and that's since the Electoral College elects the president, and the states are given 80% of their electoral votes based on their population, whether they include illegals or not, is the assessment that that is how they affect elections.” StatesGivenPresidentCollegeVoteElectionPopulationAliensVotingIllegalAssessmentIllegal AliensElectoral College Author:Rush Limbaugh
“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
“It's important for us to vote in mid-term off year elections in the times where state legislators and mayors offices are being vacated. These are the elections that actually impact the way we live oftentimes more than the President. So we have to pay attention to those things as well.” WayYearsWellsImportantStatesPresidentTermPayAttentionOfficeVoteElectionImpactPay AttentionMayorsLegislators Author:Aldis Hodge
“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
“During a news conference, when he was standing with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President [Donald] Trump responded to a question from an Israeli reporter about the rise in anti-Semitic attacks - by boasting about his election victory.” PresidentTrumpVictoryNewsStandingElectionMinistersPrimeReportersPrime MinisterBoastConferencesIsraeliAnti Semitic Author:Amy Goodman
“If Trump is elected president... I just don't know what America looks like four years after his election, in terms of the kind of bigotry that will be erupting, in terms of the kind of divisiveness that we will see, the kind of demagoguery that we will see.” IfsKnowsYearsLooksKindAmericaPresidentTermFourTrumpElectionBigotryFour YearsDemagogueryDivisiveness Author:Bernie Sanders
“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
“I do think [Barack Obama's] strategy for re-election is so misguided. He's counting on the Republicans to self-destruct, and they might, you know, but they might not. So he might be a one-term president.” ThinkingKnowsSelfMightPresidentTermRepublicanElectionStrategyBarackCountingMisguidedSelf Destruct Author:Bill Ayers
“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 election moment is merely the American public saying, "We'd rather you be President than that guy." That's it.” MomentsGuyPresidentElectionThat Guy Author:Jon Stewart
“I think Donald Trump is very uninterested in his business. In the past he would be talking up his business, but since the election, I've seen almost a laser-like focus on his job as president. What gets him lit up the most in any conversation is bringing jobs into these midwestern states that have suffered because of technology and trade policies.” ThinkingStatesWould BeJobsPastPresidentTalkingTechnologyFocusPolicyTrumpConversationElectionTradeLitLasersUninterested Author:Christopher Ruddy
“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
“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
“We were just at the beginnings of a recovery [in 2010]. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is gonna get hit and his party's gonna get hit. That then means that suddenly you've got a redistricting in which a lot of state legislatures are now Republican. They draw lines that give a huge structural advantage in subsequent elections.” KnowsGivingMeanStatesPresidentLinesPartyHugeRepublicanDrawsAdvantageElectionRecoveryLegislatureState LegislaturesRedistricting 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
“The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again. It was in the air somehow. That ownership of bigotry. I hadn't seen it since I was a kid. It made me want to change the kinds of poems I was writing, but I'm terrible at writing overtly political poems.” WritingKindFeelingsKidsRememberPoliticalPresidentTerribleElectionBigotryOwnership Author:Adrian Matejka
“Donald Trump has been a good friend for a long time. I texted him after the election and I said 'congratulations, Mr. President. The Nicklauses are all happy for the Trumps,' and I said, 'It's time to bring American together, make American great again as you wish.'” LongTogetherWishPresidentElectionGood Friend Author:Jack Nicklaus
“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
“I think in the policies that have been followed since the president Donald Trump came into office, there really hasn't been any slack cut for the Russians. And I think one of the things that has surprised people has been that the relationship between the United States and Russia has in fact deteriorated since the election.” PeopleThinkingPresidentCuttingPolicyOfficeElection Author:Robert M. Gates
“I think my best advice would be to separate Donald Trump, the president of the United States from whatever investigation is being conducted by the FBI. I mean, there is something to be said, frankly, about the need for the appointment of an independent prosecutor because the American people are entitled to have a full review of what happened as a result of what the Russians did during our election.” PeopleThinkingMeanPresidentAdviceIndependentElectionFbiBest AdviceProsecutor Author:Leon Panetta
“I think it's extremely important that the president Donald Trump himself indicate that he too wants to discover the full truth behind what the Russians did to elections 2016.” ThinkingImportantPresidentTruth IsElection Author:Leon Panetta
“I'm afraid the President election is going to be rigged. I have to be honest.” PresidentHonestElectionBeing Honest Author:Brian Stelter
“The Democrats are losing power in every election. And I think that's part of the panic. They want us to believe that the behavior and panic is rooted in an absolute outraged offense over this president that we have, this is just unacceptable and some maniac like Trump is so out of the ordinary, out of the norm, has to be stopped. I don't think that's what it is. I mean, it's part of it. But I think there's a much larger panic that is taking over the Democrat Party. And it's gonna implode on 'em.” ThinkingBelieveMeanPresidentPartyBehaviorLosingElectionDemocratOffenseNormWant UOutraged Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Donald Trump, he didn't dismantle Eastern European missile defense. He didn't go to Geneva and press a plastic red button. He didn't make fun of Romney for saying Russia was an existential enemy. He didn't have a hot mic exchange with a Russian President saying that he would be more flexible with the Russians after the elections.” FunPresidentEnemyHotElectionExistentialEastern Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“President Putin will run again in the 2018 election. He wants to be the czar of this new Russian empire that he is rebuilding. I think he is really obsessed with the idea.” ThinkingRunningPresidentElectionObsessed Author:Alexei Navalny
“Emmanuel Macron wants a stronger Europe, just as the chancellor and I do. I was impressed that the new president climbed onto the stage in front of the Louvre to the sound of the European anthem after his election victory. That was a very powerful symbol. It is very clear: Macron is our ally.” PresidentPowerfulVictoryStrongerElectionVery PowerfulAnthem Author:Wolfgang Schauble
“Of course I don't know what's going on in that meeting on in the mind of Donald Trump. But I do know one of the things President Barack Obama was struck by was how much time he spent on cyber-security as president. And one of the things he said was that, in the years ahead, the next president will be spending even more time. And cyber-security isn't a thing that goes away after this election. It's a constant flow.” MindPresidentElectionMeetingsBarackPresident Barack Obama Author:David Brooks
“The most upsetting part of the new administration is discovering that the person who won the election and became the president of the United States of America is a man who has no good values. His character astounds me. I can't believe that we have a president who would lie, who would distort, and who does not appear to have an appreciation for government and how it works.” MenBelieveCharacterLyingValuesPresidentElectionAppreciationUpset Author:Maxine Waters
“If there is an exoneration of Donald Trump and collusion with the Russians to affect the outcome of the election, you think that's gonna make the Democrats go away? Do you think that's gonna make the deep state shut down? Is that gonna stop people in the intelligence community trying to overthrow an elected president? Because that is what is going on here.” PeopleThinkingTryingPresidentCommunityElectionDemocratGoing Away Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The most important individual in the Iran is not President Ahmadinejad. It's the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. He was elected, but we're not talking about free and fair elections in Iran. There are certain vetting processes which take place.” ImportantIndividualPresidentLeaderElection Author:Karim Sadjadpour
“We have to remember that at the center of all of this is the hacking, is what the Russians did during our election process, their absolute targeting our democracy. And there's President Donald Trump laughing with them. Sergey Lavrov said they did not talk about the charges against Russia. And you still hear President Trump talking as if this may not be true, others may have hacked, as well.” RememberPresidentLaughingDemocracyElectionBeing True Author:Martha Raddatz
“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 president made very clear to leaders in Congress from right after the election that repealing and replacing Obamacare will be the first priority of this administration.” PresidentLeaderElectionPriorities Author:Mike Pence
“All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump's election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton. And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.” HelpingPresidentChanceElectionClintonSecretaryInterfere Author:Al Franken
“We know that the Russian's interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.” PresidentElection Author:Al Franken
“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.” ReasonFeelingsPresidentElectionExcitedFeel GoodPresidentialAcknowledgeExplanationHopefulPresident ObamaGood WorkPresidential Election Author:Stephen Burt
“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
“Donald Trump will be the next president, the 45th president of the United States. And it will be up to him to set up a team that he thinks will serve him well and reflect his policies. It takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality. Hopefully, it`s a reminder that elections matter. I think it`s important for us to let him make his decisions, and I think the American people will judge over the course of the next couple of years whether they like what they see.” PeopleThinkingImportantRealityPresidentDecisionTeamPolicyJudgingCoupleElectionHopefullyReconcile Author:Barack Obama
“I make no secret of the fact that I was not a big Hillary Clinton supporter, but I thought in the two-way race between her and Donald Trump, that she should have been the president. But Trump promised a lot of things. And now he's six months in and hasn't passed a piece of legislation yet. Now, I personally have said we should help him. I didn't vote for him. I didn't think he was the right person. But once we have an election and he gets elected, then we have a responsibility as citizens to help him.” ThinkingHelpingPresidentSecretResponsibilityVoteElectionClintonSupporterRight Person Author:Michael Bloomberg
“What we've learned from the whole election cycle of 2016 President elections is men and women, men particularly, are pretty comfortable talking about women in terms that - I think it's hard for me to not believe this has been influenced by fifty years of open pornography and that kind of culture.” ThinkingMenBelieveKindCulturePresidentTermMen And WomenElectionPornography Author:David Simon
“It seems to me that our presidential elections have turned more into a popularity contest than a real analysis about who really should be President of the United States.” RealPresidentElectionPresidentialPopularityPresidential Election Author:Danny Strong
“Democrats are just as divided as Republicans these days. Embarrassed by their election losses, they are fighting over everything from their diagnosis of why Trump beat them in 2016 to how much to stake themselves on an oust-him-at-all-costs strategy now. Their internal battles may not be as sexy as the unprecedented hostile takeover of the GOP by an outsider president not beholden to it - yet they are just as consequential.” FightingPresidentLossRepublicanBattleElectionStrategyDemocratSexyOutsidersEmbarrassedGop Author:Susan Glasser
“If I had lost the popular vote but won the electoral college and in my first day as president the intelligence community came to me and said, "The Russians influenced the election," I would've never stood for it. Even though it might've advantaged me, I would've said, "We've got to get to the bottom of this." I would've set up an independent commission with subpoena power and everything else.” PresidentCommunityCollegeVoteIndependentElectionBottom Author:Hillary Clinton
“When I think about what I'm going through, as President, it doesn't compare to what the folks that I'm representing are going through. They're losing jobs. They're trying to figure out how to pay their medical bills. They've seen retirements suddenly dissipate because of what's happening in the stock market. And so as tough as the job might be, and the politics of Washington can sometimes be I'm always reminded of how fortunate I am to be here, and what an extraordinary responsibility I have to try to deliver on some of the promises that I made during the election.” ThinkingTryingSometimesPresidentResponsibilityPromiseLosingToughElectionExtraordinaryMedicalCompareRetirement Author:Barack Obama
“I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.” KnowsProblemPoliticalPresidentStudyEconomicLowsScientistElectionDefeatProductivityFactorsRisingUnemploymentInflationCarterEconomic ProblemsPresident Carter Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick