“For decades the G.O.P. has won elections by appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy a process that reached its epitome when George W. Bush won re-election by posing as America's defender against gay married terrorists, then announced that he had a mandate to privatize Social Security.” AmericaTurnsSocialProcessCuttingSecurityVictoryGayTaxesMarriedElectionDecadesTerroristWealthyDivisionSocial SecurityDefendersMandatesTax CutsPosingEpitomeDeregulation Author:Paul Krugman
“The election process is a total fraud. If voters believe the process is secret, they will vote. If not, they will not.” IfsBelieveProcessSecretVoteElectionVotersFraudElection Process Author:Riordan Roett
“In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.” NextWinningProcessLosesDemocracyElectionLearning ProcessThe Next One Author:Salman Khurshid
“Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee.” LastsProcessChallengesEffortCostElectionCorruptionDecadesDozenRidiculeIntimidationTennesseeLawsuitElection Process Author:John Jay Hooker
“Greenlight is a bad example of an election process. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could just do away with Greenlight completely, because it was a bottleneck rather than a way for people to communicate choice.” PeopleWayChoicesProcessExampleElectionCommunicateConclusionBottlenecksElection Process Author:Gabe Newell
“For all its considerable merits and inspirational principles, the American system is based upon a continuous uninterrupted process of election campaigns, stretching out year after year. Lost in the perpetual scramble is any long-term vision.” YearsLongPoliticsLostProcessTermVisionPrinciplesUnited StatesElectionCampaignsMeritLong TermPerpetualStretching Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“We need to review the process for the election of Speaker. We've got to reform Question Time, which is really a waste of time. There are so many things that we need to do to reform our Parliament and I think it's bigger than that. It's all about the sort of leadership that people are getting at the moment. They're fed up with this sorta day-to-day bickering, not putting the national interest ahead of these narrow partisan interests.” PeopleThinkingNeedsMomentsProcessInterestWasteBiggerElectionReformFedsReviewsWasting TimeSpeakersDay To DayParliamentPartisansFed UpNational InterestsBickering Author:Richard Di Natale
“Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.” KnowsHappensCultureProcessDemocracyOur LivesEventsBuildingOughtElectionOngoingElection Time Author:Jim Hightower
“For the institutions of the European Union are at present incomplete. A European Senate is badly needed to complete them. By creating an upper chamber in the European parliament, a new bridge could be built between national political classes, which retain democratic legitimacy, and the decision-making process in Brussels. Such a Senate should be recruited by indirect election from exisiting national parliaments.” ShouldPoliticalProcessDecisionClassNeededCreatingBuiltElectionInstitutionsUnionsDemocraticBridgesDecision MakingSenateParliamentChamberIncompleteEuropean UnionLegitimacyIndirectBrusselsDecision Making Process Author:Larry Siedentop
“The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the Republic was subjected to the rule of emperors” ImportantPlayLawProcessVoteAbuseArmyElectionCourtCorruptionSpreadSellingBuyingRepublicEmperorBuying And SellingLaw Courts Author:Plutarch
“There are two reforms that we need to restore our democracy. The first is campaign finance. We need to get the corporate money out of the election process. And second, we need to resolve the dysfunction in the environment. Looters are running agencies that are supposed to be protecting us from pollution.” NeedsFirstsTwoRunningProcessDemocracyEnvironmentElectionCampaignsFinanceReformSupposed To BeCorporateAgencyResolvePollutionDysfunctionCampaign FinanceElection Process Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“We need election reform because our elections are being stolen. And these huge powerful voting machine vending companies have privatized the election process in our country.” NeedsCountryProcessPowerfulCompanyHugeMachinesElectionOur CountryReformVotingStolenElection Process Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“There is a political process which we are trying to achieve through what is called the Vienna Group. That involves the establishment of a governing council, which is to take power away from Bashar Assad, to write a constitution and to open the way for elections. It is important that Bashar leaves in the beginning, not at the end of the process. This will make the transition happen with less death and destruction.” WayWritingTryingImportantEndsHappensPoliticalProcessGroupsAchieveDestructionConstitutionElectionTransitionEstablishmentCouncilGoverningAssadVienna Author:Adel al-Jubeir
“I mean,you will have an Afghan government. There are two roads here. One is obviously a run-off election or a negotiated settlement. But what's most important about that process is that there's a credibility and a legitimacy to the government at the end of that process. So which road they choose, that's up to them. It must have - be legitimate and credible in the eyes of the Afghan people.” PeopleMeanTwoImportantEndsGovernmentEyeRunningProcessElectionCredibilitySettlementCredibleLegitimacyAfghanTwo Roads Author:Rahm Emanuel
“I do think the whole question of judicial accountability is a complicated one. On the one hand, you want to encourage judicial independence. And it's always, I think, problematic when an unpopular decision triggers a recall election. Because it sends a disempowering message to judges. On the other hand, it's the only way that voters have to rein in someone whose views are really so out of the mainstream of public opinion that they jeopardize the legitimacy of the judicial process.” ThinkingWayWantWholeHandsProcessDecisionViewsOpinionJudgingMessagesElectionIndependenceComplicatedAccountabilityVotersMainstreamRecallsPublic OpinionTriggersJudicialReinsLegitimacyJeopardizeUnpopular Decisions Author:Deborah Rhode
“I'm usually slow to move in these sorts of things [like primary election process ] because I need to know as much data as I possibly can. And then also, I think you know watching the DNC, several people said it's really not about one person and it's certainly not about once cause or one issue that needs to be tackled. It's the culmination of many thoughts, many ideas, but also power that needs to be combined and the efforts need to be combined.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsPersonsSaidIdeasMovingCausesProcessEffortIssuesElectionDataPrimariesCulminationElection Process Author:MC Lyte
“The billionaires and their super PACs increasingly control the American political process. This is not democracy. This is not what brave Americans fought and died to defend. This is oligarchy. This is government of the few, by the few and for the few. We must overturn Citizen United and move to public funding of elections.” GovernmentMovingPoliticalProcessUnitedDemocracyCitizensDiedElectionBraveFundingBillionaireOligarchyPacsCitizens United Author:Bernie Sanders
“When I first covered [presidential election ] in 2008, I was asking questions for kids around the world, but mainly for myself. I didn't know the process, I didn't know how it worked. Now, of course, I'm more schooled on it, but I deal with so much politics in my fashion work and in Hollywood, that I haven't been as connected this time.” KnowsWorldFirstsKidsCoursesProcessDealsKnow HowFashionHavensHollywoodAskingElectionConnectedAround The WorldPresidentialCoveredAsking QuestionsSchooledPresidential Election Author:Lily Collins
“I'm not questioning that Donald Trump won the election. But there's nothing more sacred than our democratic process in the United States. And we have got to make sure that - put aside partisan politics and make sure that we're getting to the bottom of all of this.” StatesProcessUnitedUnited StatesTrumpElectionSacredDemocraticBottomQuestioningPartisansDemocratic ProcessPartisan Politics Author:Claire McCaskill
“If we want to really reduce foreign influence on our elections, then we better think about how to make sure that our political process, our political dialogue is stronger than it's been.” IfsThinkingWantPoliticalProcessInfluenceStrongerElectionDialoguePolitical Dialogue Author:Barack Obama
“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
“I considered bringing forward information about these surveillance programs prior to the election, but I held off because I believed that [Barack] Obama was genuine when he said he was going to change things. I wanted to give the democratic process time to work.” GivingSaidWantedProcessInformationProgramElectionDemocraticGenuineBarackSurveillanceDemocratic Process Author:Edward Snowden
“We know that the governments in most of the successor states formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union are replaced through a process of regular elections.” KnowsStatesGovernmentProcessElectionUnionsSovietCollapseReplacedSoviet UnionSuccessors Author:Garry Kasparov
“When considering the Islamic world, Turkey is the best example of a country where democracy irreversibly gained a foothold despite religious and cultural traditions still respected today. With some reservation, this can be said about Pakistan, too, where we can observe dynamic political processes going on [and] governments change as a result of elections. In my opinion, it is up to the ruling elite to initiate cardinal changes.” WorldSaidStillsCountryGovernmentTodayPoliticalProcessReligiousResultsOpinionDemocracyExampleTraditionElectionDespiteIslamicElitesConsideringPakistanRulingTurkeysCardinalsReservationsInitiate Author:Garry Kasparov
“The idea that Russia felt emboldened and apparently fearless to go into our election and manipulate our own election process, whether successfully or not, is a sign that they are outside the norms of normal society.” IdeasFeltProcessNormalElectionRussiaFearlessNormManipulateElection Process Author:David Brooks
“It is important to eliminate the stigma created by American imperialism and its allies regarding the Cuban political system. That stigma must be eliminated. You may think that there are no direct elections in Cuba. I am going to tell that they are direct and you can compare our process with any other country including the United States.” ThinkingMayImportantCountryStatesPoliticalProcessUnitedUnited StatesDirectElectionIncludingCompareAlliesOther CountriesImperialismCubaStigmaPolitical SystemsCubanAmerican Imperialism Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“The Russians sought to interfere with the election process - that the cyber hacking that took place by the Russians was part of that campaign, and that they had a clear preference in terms of outcomes.” ProcessTermClearElectionCampaignsOutcomesInterferePreferenceHackingCyberElection Process Author:Barack Obama
“I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.” StatesHouseWishProcessReturnConflictCommitmentElectionDemocraticAgreementDemocratic ProcessArmed ConflictLancaster Author:Robert Mugabe
“The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.” ThinkingIdeasPoliticsProcessOfficeVoteUltimateElectionDemocraticBoxesCandidatesBreakfastCerealMerchandiseIndignityPresidents DayDemocratic ProcessElections And VotingBreakfast CerealElection Process Author:Adlai E. Stevenson
“Basically, the start of my thinking process is: 'OK, if you didn't have to worry about re-election, what would you be doing?' That's kind of how I'm starting to think.” IfsThinkingKindProcessWorryElectionStartingThinking Process Author:Ray Nagin
“It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.” PeopleImportantProcessResultsFairsVoteElectionIncludingVotingCountingHave ConfidenceElection Results Author:Zalmay Khalilzad
“I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.” ThinkingNeedsProcessJudgingElectionCorruptionReformVotingThrownPhiladelphiaFederal Judges Author:Patrick McHenry
“Salvation is accomplished by the almighty power of the Triune God. The Father chose a people, the Son died for them, the Holy Spirit makes Christ's death effective by bringing the elect to faith and repentance, thereby causing them to willingly obey the gospel. The entire process (election, redemption, regeneration) is the work of God and is by grace alone. Thus God, not man, determines who will be the recipients of the gift of salvation.” PeopleMenGodSpiritFaithFatherJesusProcessChristReligiousPowerGraceSonHolyDiedElectionSalvationDetermineRedemptionHoly SpiritAccomplishedRepentanceAlmightyTheologianTrinityRegeneration Author:Loraine Boettner
“This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any many who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.” FallProcessPresidentMoralOfficeDegreesElectionCertaintyQualifications Book:The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States : a Collection of Essays Source: The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States : a Collection of Essays