“[Donald Trump] has offered me a position. Very early on. In fact, the election night or the wee hours of Wednesday, he did. And I am very humbled by that. I think that it's everybody's dream to serve their nation at the highest level if they can. But I have four small children and I need to balance all types of personal and professional considerations.” IfsThinkingNeedsChildrenFactsDreamNightNationsHoursLevelsFourPositionTypeTrumpBalanceHighestElectionConsiderationSmall ChildWednesday Author:Kellyanne Conway
“Long ago I decided that this program has nothing to do, the success of the program depends nothing at all on who wins or loses elections. "Are you abandoning [Donald] Trump?" No, no, no, no, don't misunderstand, I'm just explaining. I should have told you. I get emails constantly from people asking me when am I going to Trump Tower. I'm not going to Trump Tower.” PeopleShouldLongWinningLosesDependsTrumpProgramDecidedShould HaveAskingElectionLong AgoTowersEmailExplainingWin Or Lose Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Absolutely I'm going to be talking about it, because it's in the zeitgeist and it's happening. It's an election year. It's the biggest election. Every election is a big election, so whenever anybody says that it kinds of grates me, but it's a fiasco. It's turned into a complete circus act, so of course you have to make fun of it, but responsible journalists definitely are being irresponsible. They're giving [Donald Trump] so much air time.” GivingYearsKindBigsCoursesFunTalkingAirTrumpHappeningsResponsibleElectionJournalistCircusIrresponsibleZeitgeistFiascoGrateElection Years Author:Chelsea Handler
“In a way I almost feel like the election of Donald Trump has inspired Democrats and progressives and punk rockers in a way that hasn't been seen since Vietnam.” WayFeelsTrumpElectionDemocratInspiredVietnamPunkPunk RockRockers Author:Moby
“Donald Trump and his team have not provided any evidence of widespread fraud in this year's election.” YearsTeamTrumpEvidenceElectionFraud Author:Audie Cornish
“House majority leader, Kevin McCarthy, slammed [Donald's] Trump`s wild claims about election fraud, saying, quote, "The election is over, let`s move on."” MovingHouseLeaderTrumpClaimsElectionMajorityFraudKevinMajority Leader Author:Chuck Todd
“Newt Gingrich called it [Donald] Trump`s biggest mistake since he won the election, these crazy accusations about voter fraud.” MistakeCrazyTrumpElectionVotersFraudAccusationBiggest MistakeNewtsVoter Fraud Author:Chuck Todd
“I can't predict if I will see a woman president, but I think I may well because, again, Hillary Clinton got more votes probably than any other Democratic candidate ever, except for Obama. But she got more votes than Trump and she got more votes than Richard Nixon got when he won the election, more votes than John Kennedy got when he won.” IfsThinkingWellsMayI CanPresidentTrumpVoteElectionDemocraticClintonCandidatesJohn Kennedy Author:Barbara Boxer
“Then the actual count comes in and not only does that not happen, [Donald] Trump wins, Hillary [Clinton] loses, they don't get anywhere near the House. They've lost the Senate. They've lost 1,200 seats in the last three elections. They don't have a national party, just one election. And in this next bite, Kellyanne Conway is pointing this out to them.” DoeHappensLastsThreeNextHouseWinningLostLosesPartyTrumpElectionClintonJust OneSeatsBitesSenatePointing Author:Rush Limbaugh
“[President Donald Trump ] trusts the CIA. This is about 17 or so unnamed agencies in an unnamed report that based the report on something that is totally false.The RNC was not hacked. And so the report is basically trying to make the case that the RNC was hacked, the DNC was hacked, and the only e-mails that came out were DNC e-mails, so therefore, this is the conclusive report that the Russians or whoever was doing the hacking wanted to unfairly change the election.” TryingWantedPresidentCasesTrumpElectionAgencyReportsMailCiaHackingHacked Author:Reince Priebus
“I know it's - this is this insane analysis. Hillary Clinton lost the election because her ideas were bad. She didn't fit the electorate. She ignored states that she shouldn't have, and Donald Trump was the change agent, OK?” KnowsIdeasStatesLostTrumpFitElectionClintonInsaneAgentsAnalysisIgnoredElectorateChange Agent Author:Reince Priebus
“We have President-elect [Donald] Trump out there calling the CIA assessment that Russia was trying to help elect him ridiculous. He also questions - says he doesn't believe the earlier findings of all 17 intelligence agencies that Russia was trying to get involved in our elections.” TryingBelieveHelpingPresidentTrumpInvolvedCallingFindingsElectionRidiculousRussiaAgencyGet InvolvedCiaAssessmentIntelligence Agencies Author:George Stephanopoulos
“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
“You have this all the way through this cabinet so that I think there are a lot of other things to worry about [Donald] Trump. But in conventional political terms, this is a cabinet that I think is going to have a very hard time delivering to the base that Trump courted in this election.” ThinkingWayHardPoliticalTermWorryTrumpElectionHard TimesConventionalCabinetsDelivering Author:E. J. Dionne
“At the same time, you had Barack Obama as a president. You had Hillary Clinton on track, all the Democrats looking good. And, you know, Donald Trump was just an entertaining buffoon to watch. And, over time, you came to realize that Donald Trump was appealing to a lot of people with his populist message. And, slowly, I think, even as a show, we started shifting in tone as the election started shifting.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShowsPresidentRealizingWatchesTrumpMessagesElectionClintonDemocratTrackBarackToneEntertainingLooking GoodShiftingPopulistBuffoons Author:Trevor Noah
“If you look at this election, I feel like Donald Trump was speaking a different language to Hillary Clinton.” IfsFeelsLooksDifferentLanguageTrumpElectionClintonDifferent Languages Author:Trevor Noah
“When Donald Trump won the election because when I came into the show, I said, I think this guy can win. This was when he first came down that escalator. He gave his first speech.” ThinkingFirstsSaidShowsGuyWinningTrumpSpeechElectionThis GuyEscalators Author:Trevor Noah
“The Republicans' response to Obama confused a lot of people. I really think there's been a measure of clarity at the end, with Trump's election, that was not present during the Obama presidency.” PeopleThinkingEndsTrumpRepublicanElectionResponseClarityConfusedPresidency Author:Jonathan Chait
“I know when we were making the film [ Age Of Trump] that we knew that there was going to be some kind of radical change coming on the horizon. That's why it was important for us to get it out before the election.” KnowsKindImportantAgeFilmTrumpElectionRadicalHorizonRadical ChangeChanges Coming Author:Ava DuVernay
“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
“I have never in my life seen a more petty, childish, bitter, soon-to-be ex-president of the United States. Barack Obama is in fact participating in this effort to undermine the Trump transition, the Trump election, and the Trump presidency. And it's unprecedented in U.S. history. Ex-presidents have never engaged in the kind of behavior Obama is engaging in.” KindStatesFactsPresidentUnitedEffortUnited StatesTrumpBehaviorElectionBitterBarackEngagedTransitionPresidencyEngagingExesPettyUnprecedentedParticipating Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Power to the Democrats is an entitlement, elections are a formality, and they should never lose. And especially to somebody like Donald Trump, who they think is a reprobate and a horrible guy.” ThinkingShouldGuyLosesTrumpElectionDemocratHorribleEntitlementFormality Author:Rush Limbaugh
“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
“[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
“The relative lack of power of certain minority groups and the fear they're feeling in the wake of Donald Trump's election, I think, is something we really need to take a look at, because, while I don't think Trump wants to target any particular minority group, I understand their fear, because he spent many months stoking it.” ThinkingWantNeedsLooksFeelingsCertainGroupsParticularMonthsTrumpElectionMinoritiesTargetRelativeMinority Groups Author:Megyn Kelly
“I worry about what Trump will inspire in Canada, especially given incidents that have already occurred here since the election.” GivenWorryInspireTrumpElectionCanadaIncidents Author:Vivek Shraya
“Brexit and Trump's election are forcing countries to come up with new radical ideas.” IdeasCountryTrumpElectionCome UpRadicalRadical Ideas Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“Trump's election is part of an international trend that's no less alarming, in Britain, in France, in Germany, in Austria. Vladimir Putin wanted to see this outcome no less than he would like to see nationalists and anti-Europeanists win in France.” WantedWinningTrumpElectionInternationalFranceOutcomesGermanyBritainTrendsPutinAustria Author:David Remnick
“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
“Donald Trump winning the electoral vote - I don't even want to say he won the election because Hillary Clinton won the popular vote - I don't think legitimizes reality TV, but I think reality TV legitimized Trump.” ThinkingWantRealityWinningTvsTrumpVoteElectionClintonReality TvPopular Vote Author:Jennifer Pozner
“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
“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
“No one can say that this was the decisive and [Russians hacking ] was what elected [Donald] Trump, but clearly his behavior during the campaign in terms of what he said in the week or two before the election was unacceptable.” SaidTwoTermWeekTrumpBehaviorElectionCampaignsHacking Author:John Lewis
“For a person [like John Lewis] that is a champion of voter rights to question whether or not Donald Trump legitimately won an election or not is an incredible position to take five days before an inauguration.” PersonsFiveRightsPositionTrumpElectionIncrediblesChampionVotersInauguration 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
“The worst thing we can do is to assume that the Electoral College [voting] resulting in the election of Donald Trump represents a mandate. It does not. He did not get the majority of the popular vote; that went to Hillary Clinton. That means those votes represent the consciousness of the nation, which is that abortion should be legal, that contraception and family planning are health issues and prevention, that a woman's right to reproductive privacy is the law of the land and should remain such.” ShouldMeanDoeLawNationsCan DoConsciousnessIssuesLandWorstCollegeTrumpVoteElectionMajorityAssumingClintonPlanningAbortionVotingPrivacyWorst ThingsMandatesPreventionContraceptionFamily PlanningHealth IssuesElectoral CollegePopular Vote Author:Willie Parker
“If you're going to impeach him, impeach [Donald Trump].If he did something wrong, arrest him. But don't cry the blues because you didn't get the vote out and this man had a genius way of winning the election.” IfsMenWayWinningCryTrumpGeniusVoteElection Author:Jim Brown
“Donald Trump has defined himself very well, not only in the primary election where he was absolutely disrespectful to his colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle and for [Carly] Fiorina who he basically said who would vote for you? Look at her face. She evidently wants to be a Republican leadership, a part of the Republican Party so bad that she would allow them and him to get away with that.” WantWellsLooksSaidFacesSidesPartyTrumpRepublicanVoteElectionDefinedPrimariesGet AwayColleaguesRepublican PartyAisleDisrespectful Author:Maxine Waters
“You put the republican members of congress who are up for re-election, and quite candidly, the democrats, because every democratic congressperson ought to be writing, tweeting, and you put them on notice. We are the boss of this government, not the [Donald] Trump.” WritingGovernmentOughtTrumpRepublicanMembersElectionDemocraticDemocratCongressBoss Author:Joe Madison
“Political uncertainty around the world has more than doubled since the election of Trump. To find anything comparable we have to go way back, to the late 1920s for example, the times of the Great Depression. Or think of the United Kingdom in the 1970s, when the International Monetary Fund had to help the country out with a dramatic rescue operation. Up until the Greek crisis, that was the last time that the IMF was forced to intervene to such an extent in Europe.” ThinkingWorldWayCountryHelpingLastsPoliticalUnitedExampleTrumpLateEuropeElectionCrisisInternationalKingdomsAround The WorldUncertaintyOperationsGreekDramaticFundRescueLast TimeMonetaryGreat DepressionUnited KingdomImf Author:Nicholas Bloom
“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
“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
“I think there's something that's fascist [in Donald Trump's election], and something that I think we could probably learn from, in terms of the energy in the world right now.” ThinkingWorldEnergyTermTrumpRight NowElectionFascists Author:Morgan Parker
“I think Canadians, by and large, during the American election, every time Donald Trump talked about NAFTA, we felt that he was talking about Mexico. Now, if Donald Trump tears up NAFTA, there is still a Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. And we all assume that we will revert back to that agreement, which is essentially the same as NAFTA except Mexico is no longer at the table. I think, you know, that is what we are hoping for.” IfsThinkingKnowsStillsFeltTalkingTearsTrumpElectionTablesTradeAssumingCanadaAgreementMexicoFree TradeTrade AgreementsNaftaAmerican Elections Author:Rick Mercer
“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
“[The press] had no sense of humor about [Donald Trump's personal ask the Russians to get involved into the Hillary Clinton's emails search]. That's why Maxine Waters and others think that Trump and the Russians were working together to hack the election.” ThinkingTogetherAsksWaterTrumpInvolvedElectionPressesClintonWorking TogetherSense Of HumorEmailGet InvolvedHacks Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Why do you think [Russians] hacked into our election? Because they have to make sure that Donald Trump got elected so that he could help them with what I think is a huuuuge deal, not only to lift these sanctions, but to take over, y'know, all of these Soviet countries and pull 'em back into the Soviet Union, so that they could have access it to all of these resources. It's clear to me!” ThinkingKnowsCountryHelpingDealsClearTrumpResourcesElectionUnionsAccessLiftsEmsSovietSoviet UnionSanctionsHacked Author:Maxine Waters
“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