“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
“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
“Trump did more interviews, he explained his agenda more than any political presidential candidate ever has, in my memory, and he has tried to stick to it as people perceive it.” PeoplePoliticalMemoriesTrumpSticksPerceivePresidentialCandidatesInterviewsAgendasPresidential Candidate Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I mean, this is a group [Republicans], don't forget, that gave its presidential straw ballot to Ron Paul, Ron Paul, and Rand Paul and Rand Paul. So, they have abandoned what - their libertarian values and instincts to embrace [Donald] Trump.” MeanValuesForgetGroupsTrumpRepublicanEmbraceInstinctLibertarianPresidentialAbandonedBallotsStraws Author:Mark Shields
“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
“Think of the French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, Ciudadanos in Spain, Nowoczesna in Poland. These are early efforts to reimagine a liberalism which is neither right-wing nor left-wing in the traditional sense.” ThinkingLeftEffortWingsTraditionalPresidentialCandidatesLiberalismSpainRight WingLeft WingPolandPresidential CandidateEmmanuel Author:Anne Applebaum
“During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to roll back government regulations.Trump plans to nominate fast food executive Andrew Puzder to head the Labor Department and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to lead the EPA. If confirmed, the two men would signal a sharp break from the policies of the [Barack] Obama administration.” IfsMenTwoGovernmentBreakPlansPolicyTrumpLaborCampaignsAdministrationBarackPresidentialDepartmentExecutivesRegulationSignalsAttorneyFast FoodAndrewOklahomaPresidential CampaignGovernment RegulationEpa Author:Rachel Martin
“Donald Trump is an American presidential nominee who was describing Russia in terms that they haven't heard almost ever. And so there is a belief that Donald Trump would be a collaborative, willing and I think perhaps quite able partner.” ThinkingWould BeAbleBeliefTermHeardHavensWillingTrumpPartnersRussiaPresidentialDescribingAmerican President Author:Evan Osnos
“Donald Trump really has, truly has motivated the Latino community more than any other presidential candidate, I think, in generations, and motivated them in a negative way.” ThinkingWayCommunityGenerationsTrumpNegativePresidentialCandidatesMotivatedLatinoPresidential Candidate Author:Julian Castro
“The Academy Awards for people in Hollywood is like the Super Bowl, the presidential inauguration and winning the NBA championship rolled up into one.” PeopleWinningHollywoodPresidentialNbaAwardsBowlsChampionshipAcademySuper BowlInaugurationAcademy AwardsNba Championships Author:Cheo Hodari Coker
“I think it's fair to say there is a demagogic path that Europeans, South Americans, Asians have pursued, and we know where that leads. It uses xenophobia, it uses paranoia, it uses prejudice, it uses nationalism to really stir people up and to, you know, begin an us-versus-them contrast, which is dangerous and is not something we've had in our politics at a presidential level in America.” PeopleThinkingKnowsUseAmericaLevelsPathDangerousFairsPrejudiceSouthPresidentialNationalismContrastVersusPursuedParanoiaXenophobia Author:Hillary Clinton
“People are really excited by Obama abroad because he seems to be the first American presidential candidate who has ambition to go out of the country. In a sense, with the power of globalization, you are kind of electing the leader of the Western world to an extent.” PeopleWorldFirstsKindCountrySeemsLeaderAmbitionWesternExcitedPresidentialCandidatesGlobalizationWestern WorldPresidential CandidateAmerican President Author:Irvine Welsh
“The day after the Republican convention ended, there was another political bomb that was dropped on the U.S. presidential election [2016] from Russia. The day after the Republican convention ended, right before the Democratic Convention began we got what U.S. intelligence agencies believed to be the next big Russian incursion into our election. We got the first WikiLeaks dump.” FirstsBigsPoliticalNextRepublicanElectionDemocraticRussiaPresidentialAgencyBombsConventionsDumpPresidential ElectionWikileaksIntelligence Agencies Author:Rachel Maddow
“WikiLeaks is a lot of things. This past year, WikiLeaks was a tool of Russian intelligence and the Russian government and their interference operation against the American presidential election to benefit Donald Trump.” YearsGovernmentPastTrumpBenefitsToolsElectionPresidentialOperationsInterferencePresidential ElectionAmerican PresidentWikileaksRussian Government Author:Rachel Maddow
“How is it possible that a process can be democratic when it comes by way of money? If there is money then it can be elected a senator, it can be elected a representative. Do you know how much it cost to be elected president of the United States? The amount has reached, billions of dollars, 2 billion, 3 billion, 4 billion dollars, that's how much a presidential campaign costs. How much does a senatorial campaign cost? It costs 80 to 90 million dollars; or the campaign of a representative, 40 to 50 million. Is that really a democracy?” IfsKnowsWayDoeStatesProcessPresidentUnitedMillionsUnited StatesKnow HowDemocracyAmountCostDollarsDemocraticBillionsCampaignsPresidentialDo You KnowRepresentativesSenatorsMillion DollarsPresidential Campaign Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“If you don't have good people, and you don't have a good process and you don't have, at some level, the basic reverence for [presidential] office, and an understanding of the incredible responsibilities and obligations, then, I think you can get into trouble.” PeopleIfsThinkingProcessUnderstandingLevelsResponsibilityTroubleOfficeIncrediblesObligationPresidentialGood PeopleReverence Author:Barack Obama
“I started as a community organizer. Every one of my campaigns was premised on getting new people involved. And if there's a theme in my public career it's that if ordinary people get involved then good things happen. So I want to see the Democratic Party move in that direction. And what that means is that we aren't just micro-targeting to eke out presidential victories; it means that we're showing up in places where right now we're not winning a lot.” PeopleIfsWantMeanHappensMovingWinningCommunityPartyCareersVictoryInvolvedRight NowOrdinaryGood ThingsDemocraticCampaignsThings HappenPresidentialThemeOrdinary PeopleGet InvolvedDemocratic PartyShowing UpOrganizer Author:Barack Obama
“As I reflect back on what's worked for me in this [presidential] office it's been that I've gotten people who maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged. Ironically, I've even gotten the other side that maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged.” PeopleBelieveProcessSidesOfficePresidentialEngaged Author:Barack Obama
“Trump is not presidential: this is not normal, it cannot be treated as normal. We have to fight with our last breath to make sure that the vision for the country that this racist white nationalist Bannon has cannot be achieved in this country. We are a country that, whether he likes it or not, is about to become the first nation in the world that is majority minorities.” WorldFirstsCountryLastsFightingNationsWhiteVisionTrumpNormalBreathsMajorityLikesTreatedPresidentialMinoritiesRacist Author:Reza Aslan
“The bottom feeders of the entertainment industry were never invited to presidential inaugurations. The bottom feeders of the entertainment were never used as fundraisers for presidents of the United States. They were ignored. There was always a line. They were always there, and they were always who they were, and they always did what they did. The bottom feeders have now become the standard. That's what's different.” DifferentStatesUsedPresidentLinesUnitedUnited StatesIndustryStandardsBottomEntertainmentPresidentialIgnoredInvitedEntertainment IndustryInaugurationFundraiser Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It's not beneficial when you have a presidential candidate like Donald Trump, telling his supporters "punch that guy in the face." I think everyone candidate ought to aspire toward civility, towards decency, towards bringing us together. I don't think we should be using angry and hateful rhetoric.” ThinkingTogetherGuyPresidentialRhetoricSupporterDecencyCivilityHatefulPresidential Candidate Author:Ted Cruz
“Trump is not just unlike a Republican, he's unlike a presidential candidate. The whole elaborate presidential process is designed to screen out people like Donald Trump. And that process broke down in ways quite unlike anything in the recent experience of the United States.” PeopleRepublicanBrokePresidentialPresidential Candidate Author:David Frum
“I'm telling you, November 8, we better be careful, because that presidential election is going to be rigged. And I hope the Republicans are watching closely, or it's going to be taken away from us.” TakenRepublicanElectionCarefulPresidentialBe CarefulNovemberPresidential Election Author:Brian Stelter
“Star Wars may be kind of a cartoon, but the original trilogy depicts a political paralysis which breeds an interest in a strong leader who will make a significant break with the past. And Hillary Clinton is a person - whether you like it or not - of extraordinary experience. I don't know if we ever had a presidential candidate with that level of political experience. There's no learning curve for her. And that, in some periods, would be a huge plus. In the end, I think it will be a significant plus for her now.” ThinkingKindWarPastPoliticalStrongInterestLeaderBreakClintonExtraordinarySignificantPresidentialBe KindCartoonYou Like ItPresidential Candidate Author:Cass Sunstein
“I think, first and foremost, showing up, making sure that Democrats focus not just on elections, not just on presidential elections, but we begin the process of rebuilding the infrastructure of the party at the grassroots. We begin going out to all those rural counties and begin having a conversation with rural voters and making sure that we hear their concerns, hear their complaints, and also educate them about what we are doing, making sure that we focus on state legislative races, not just congressional, Senate, governor, and presidential races.” ThinkingPartyFocusConcernElectionDemocratPresidentialEducateCountyPresidential Election Author:Tom Vilsack
“The presidential campaign was oriented toward the way we elect the presidency, Electoral College, not the popular vote. The popular vote doesn't matter. This is not a direct democracy. We have a representative republic, and the popular vote doesn't matter and it never has, by design.” DemocracyDesignCollegeDirectVotePresidentialPresidential Campaign Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There certainly is a pattern of administrations that have good transitions, George W. Bush to Barack Obama, and administrations that have really bad transitions, I would say Dwight Eisenhower to John F. Kennedy. I would say this is beginning to look like a bad transition, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump as they begin to argue even at the presidential level, which is more or less unprecedented.” ArguingBarackPresidentialDwight Author:David Brooks
“This is so sexist. I mean, are we really going to put this as a standard of something we are going to judge our presidential candidates by?” MeanJudgingPresidentialSexistPresidential Candidate Author:Stephanie Miller
“If every four years in a presidential election, if you're a New Yorker or a Californian, and you realize that you are so much less important, that nobody is actually kind of targeting your needs because they're laser-focused on what will play in Florida and on what will play in Virginia.” KindImportantRealizingElectionPresidentialPresidential Election Author:Frank Bruni
“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
“The Donald Trump phone call with the president of Taiwan seems very much in line with his rhetoric during the campaign that he intended to be tough on China. And don't forget, we have seen a lot of presidential candidates, memorably, Bill Clinton, who used to criticize George Herbert Walker Bush for coddling dictators and then take the much softer line with China once he's in office.” PresidentForgetOfficeToughClintonPresidentialCriticizeDictatorRhetoricPresidential Candidate Author:Karen Tumulty
“If Hillary Clinton wins the race, she will win it with the most diverse coalition that anybody's ever been elected by in presidential history.” WinningClintonPresidentialDiverse Author:Matthew Dowd
“In U.S. elections, the term "October surprise" has come to mean an event in the closing weeks or days of a presidential campaign that could affect or even alter the outcome.” MeanTermWeekElectionSurprisePresidentialOctoberPresidential Campaign Author:Alison Stewart
“Donald Trump can't even handle the rough and tumble of a presidential campaign. He loses his cool at the slightest provocation. When he has gotten a tough question from a reporter, when he is challenged in a debate. When he sees a protester at a rally. Imagine, if you dare imagine, imagine him in the Oval Office facing a real crisis. A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons. And in the end, it comes down to what Donald Trump doesn't get, America is great because America is good.” MenRealImagineOfficeToughCrisisDareDebatePresidentialRoughNuclear WeaponsTweetPresidential Campaign Author:Hillary Clinton
“Let's keep in mind that Donald Trump didn't win because of himself. He won in spite of himself. A quarter of his voters voted for Donald Trump believing he wasn't presidential and he didn't have the temperament, but they had hope that he would grow into the office and become more presidential. That doesn't seem to have happened, and I don't think it will happen for a 71-year-old man.” ThinkingMenMindBelieveWinningOfficePresidentialSpiteOld ManTemperament Author:Matthew Dowd
“Women's rights is an important and challenging question for us to be asking. It focuses attention on a global issue that in the wake of the 2016 presidential election reached a fever pitch and flooded city streets with pink-hatted protestors. The stakes are enormously high for women, but also for the church.” ImportantChallengesChurchAttentionElectionPresidentialPresidential Election Author:Carolyn Custis James
“The overwhelming female protest to the presidential election perhaps is an accurate indicator of how essential it is to understand women, the issues they face, and the need to address women's rights, not just nationally, but globally.” FemaleElectionPresidentialProtestOverwhelmingPresidential Election Author:Carolyn Custis James
“It has been an amazing presidential election in 2016. AMAZING. And I don't take it for granted. This sort of race comes along once every century or so.” ElectionGrantedPresidentialPresidential Election Author:Christopher Michael Cillizza
“The new people come in to do two things to, to do a review of existing policy to see where they might want to change it, and then to put in place the actual new policy, a presidential review directive, to a presidential decision directive.” PeopleDecisionPolicyPresidential Author:Roger Cressey
“It doesn't need to be deep and it doesn't need to be a 65-point plan, but just to give some concrete examples of how this economy is going to work for the people that feel right now it's not working for them, and then finally to get to central tension of this campaign. This is a presidential campaign where you have Americans now who want to see change. And Hillary Clinton is the status quo. How can she be both status quo and change?” PeopleGivingEconomyClintonPresidentialTensionConcreteStatus QuoGoing To WorkPresidential Campaign Author:Amy Walter
“The problem with these presidential debates like this is that you can't really prepare for them, because the questions are so individual and personal or even idiosyncratic. Secretary Hillary Clinton has a lot richer and deeper experience in doing these, obviously, than Donald Trump.” ProblemIndividualClintonDebatePresidentialSecretary Author:Michael Gerson
“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
“When you have a president in his campaign who ran saying things that not are just contrary to a fact, but literally threatening to use presidential power in a way that would erode the rights and privileges and equality of large sections of Americans, God bless the protestors.” PresidentPresidentialRanBlessThreateningGod Bless Author:Cory Booker
“Donald Trump was tainted every kind of way you could imagine. I mean, no way in the world that Donald Trump is a champion of working people. He has hurt workers in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Florida, multiple bankruptcies, never showed his taxes. I don't know any good thing this guy's ever done. And yet, because he was able to throw hate and poison on Hillary Clinton, he was able to somehow prevail at least until the Electoral College. I think he was skilled at just sort of, like, keeping the attention on anyone but himself. He is the most outrageous person ever to win a presidential election.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindMeanDoneHateWinningHurtAttentionImagineCollegeTaxesElectionGood ThingsClintonPresidentialChampionMultipleBankruptcyPresidential Election Author:Keith Ellison
“You want to talk about doing damage to our elections and damaging our stature, to have it just thought and stated repeatedly that the strongman of Russia can pick an American presidential candidate and get him or her elected? Do you think if Hillary had won and the Republicans had tried this line that Putin chose her, do you think that would have gotten past a day in the Drive-By Media? They wouldn't have even taken the story. They'd laughed at it, sloughed it off, and you'd-a never heard about it.” ThinkingPastTakenRepublicanElectionPresidentialPresidential CandidateAmerican President Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Though the Americans can be fooled, as they have been, and they can be propagandized, as they have been... But, as Lincoln said, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time. But you can't fool all of the people all of the time." And so hope lies in the fact that little by little, even if the American people can be fooled, even if they continue to be fooled in the 2004 presidential election, they will gradually learn, as they have learned - for instance, in the Vietnam War and turned against the Vietnam War.” PeopleWarLyingFoolElectionPresidentialVietnam WarFooledPresidential Election Author:Howard Zinn
“Did I meet with people that were Russian? I'm sure, I'm sure I did. But none that were set up. None that I can think of at the moment. And certainly none that I was representing the presidential campaign in any way, shape or form.” PeopleThinkingMomentsPresidentialPresidential Campaign Author:Donald Trump, Jr.
“I joined presidential campaign in the summer, and I can tell you that all the contact by the Donald Trump campaign and associates was with the American people. We were fully engaged with taking his message to make America great again all across this country. That's why he won in a landslide election.” PeopleCountrySummerElectionPresidentialPresidential Campaign Author:Mike Pence
“Why would there be any contacts with Russian between the presidential campaign? This is all a distraction, and it's all part of a narrative to delegitimize the election and to question the legitimacy of this presidency. The American people see right through it.” PeopleElectionPresidentialDistractionPresidential Campaign Author:Mike Pence
“The whole straight talk thing, which John McCain kind of turned into a slogan at one point in one of his presidential campaigns, what that is, is a symptom of somebody who has no time for messing around. Because he`s trying to get stuff done constantly.” TryingKindDonePresidentialSlogansMccainPresidential Campaign Author:Rachel Maddow