“In the last presidential election Obama and Romney raised about $1 billion each. The Koch brothers, the second wealthiest family in America, now say they will raise nearly $1 billion for the 2016 elections. When one family can raise as much as an entire party, the system is broken. This is oligarchy, not democracy. We must overturn Citizens United.” LastsAmericaUnitedPartyDemocracyBrotherBrokenCitizensRaisesElectionRaisedBillionsPresidentialRomneyOligarchyPresidential ElectionCitizens United Author:Bernie Sanders
“There is a great deal of strength in Garfield's life and struggles as a self-made man.... From poverty and obscurity, by labor at all avocations, he became a great scholar, a statesman, a major general, a Senator, a Presidential candidate.... The truth is, no man ever started so low that accomplished so much in all our history. Not Franklin or Lincoln even.” MenMadeSelfDealsPovertyStruggleTruth IsMajorsLowsLaborPresidentialCandidatesAccomplishedScholarSenatorsObscurityStatesmenFranklinSelf MadePresidential CandidateSelf Made ManGarfield Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“Richard Nixon was a Republican presidential candidate who encouraged crooks to commit espionage against the Democratic National Committee in order to gain an edge in a presidential election.” OrderRepublicanGainsElectionDemocraticEdgesCommitPresidentialCandidatesCommitteesEspionagePresidential ElectionCrooksPresidential Candidate Author:Tim Kaine
“Barack Obama was elected President in 2008 and re-elected in 2012. The natural thing would be to suggest money on the right [wing] doesn't really matter that much. The first thing you have to know is that the presidential elections are the ones where it's most difficult for money to hold sway, in that they're the most public elections.” KnowsFirstsMatterWould BeDifficultPresidentNaturalElectionWingsBarackPresidentialRight WingPresidential ElectionNatural Things Author:Jane Mayer
“The threshold by the Commission on Presidential Debates. In the words of the League of Women Voters, they are a fraud being perpetrated on the American public.” DebatePresidentialLeagueVotersFraudThresholdPresidential Debate Author:Jill Stein
“Seventy-five percent of voters now [in September 2016], according to the latest poll, want third-party candidates included in the debate. We have the highest disapproval and distrust rates ever in our history for these two presidential candidates, which the system is doing everything it can to force down our throats.” WantTwoForcePartyFiveHighestPercentThirdsRateDebatePresidentialCandidatesVotersThroatSeptemberSeventiesDistrustPollsPresidential CandidateDisapprovalThird Parties Author:Jill Stein
“That is enough to win a three-way presidential race. If young people understand they have the numbers and they have the power to come out and turn this election on its head.” PeopleIfsWayEnoughYoungTurnsThreeWinningNumbersRaceElectionPresidentialThree Ways Author:Jill Stein
“It was a very interesting experience. You know, I don't think words could do it justice. Roseanne [Barr] is a comedian, a laugh a minute at every turn, and this time around she was actually going to be the vice presidential candidate of another Green Party candidate. So I guess she's still in the mix in some ways,sort of learning her politics as she goes, like a lot of us Americans who are getting thrown under the bus and for whom it is not a laughing matter. We are going to stand up and take this seriously and refuse to be intimidated out of the future that we deserve.” ThinkingKnowsWayStillsMatterTurnsJusticeInterestingPartyLaughingMinutesDeserveGreenVicesRefuseComedianPresidentialCandidatesThrownBusVery InterestingIntimidatedVice PresidentPresidential CandidateGreen PartyThrown Under The Bus Author:Jill Stein
“Popular religion since the time of Kant and Fichte has gone in a direction they tried to prevent and that has been disastrous for the humanity both of believers and of the rest of us. Look at the role of religion in Republican presidential primaries if you need any confirmation of this last statement.” IfsNeedsLooksHas BeensLastsHumanityRolesGoneRepublicanBelieverStatementsPrimariesPresidentialConfirmation Author:Allen W. Wood
“You've seen [Doanld Trump] come out with a lot more specifics. He's not in hiding or smashing BlackBerry or BleachBit himself to death like we've seen Hillary do or Hillary [Clinton] throwing her stuff, you know, under the bus. She's not showing presidential leadership qualities.” KnowsStuffQualityTrumpClintonPresidentialHidingBusThrowingSmashingBlackberriesSpecificsLeadership QualitiesPresidential Leadership Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle
“Newt Gingrich got in hot water during his 2012 presidential race for using campaign funds to pay himself $47,000 for a mailing list.” WaterPayRaceHotListsCampaignsPresidentialFundNewtsHot WaterMailing Author:Chris Hayes
“We should note it is not illegal for the campaign to pay [Doanld] Trump owned businesses as long as they`re charging fair market rates. And while the optics are pretty stunning, we shouldn`t be surprised. Afterall, this is the guy that told Fortune magazine in 2000 it`s very possible I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it.” ShouldFirstsLongRunningGuyPayTrumpFairsFortuneNotesRateCampaignsMagazinesMaking MoneyPresidentialCandidatesIllegalStunningPresidential CandidateChargingOptics Author:Chris Hayes
“I don't expect us to cover all the issues of this campaign [2016] tonight, but I remind everyone, there are two more presidential debates scheduled. We are going to focus on many of the issues that voters tell us are most important, and we're going to press for specifics.” TwoImportantIssuesFocusPressesCampaignsDebatePresidentialTonightVotersSpecificsPresidential Debate Author:Lester Holt
“The recent AP poll that came out last month said that approximately 90% of the American people felt that the two-party system was failing us in the presidential election.” PeopleSaidTwoLastsFeltPartyFailingMonthsElectionPresidentialPollsPresidential ElectionTwo Party System Author:Jill Stein
“We need to be more precise in how we talk about these issues. People around the word follow our presidential campaigns so closely, trying to get hints about what we will do.” PeopleNeedsTryingIssuesCampaignsPresidentialPreciseHintsPresidential Campaign Author:Hillary Clinton
“Ohio, you're too white, too many white people to be in any way meaningful in a presidential election.” PeopleWayWhiteElectionMeaningfulPresidentialOhioPresidential Election Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We keep hearing how qualified Hillary Clinton is. She's well prepared to be president, more exposure to the president than anybody else. Hillary Clinton is the most prepared to be impeached in advance of any presidential candidate America has ever had!” WellsAmericaPresidentPreparedClintonHearingPresidentialCandidatesExposureQualifiedPresidential Candidate Author:Rush Limbaugh
“At the presidential level, everybody knows that Hillary Clinton is going to stand up for women's reproductive rights.” KnowsLevelsRightsClintonPresidentialReproductive Rights Author:Stephanie Schriock
“President Lincoln was trying to convince some people, he used some arguments, convincing other people, he used other arguments. That was a great - I thought a great display of presidential leadership.” PeopleTryingUsedPresidentArgumentPresidentialConvinceDisplayConvincingPresidential LeadershipConvincing OthersPresident Lincoln Author:Hillary Clinton
“Bob Dylan, Nobel laureate. A new fact so shocking that even the year's most notable deaths have not outdone it for the volume (in both senses) of instant reaction; so divisive, it makes Brexit, the Labour leadership and the US Presidential election seem lesser ruptures.” YearsFactsSeemsElectionSensesReactionsPresidentialInstantLabourBobVolumeShockingDylanNotableNobelPresidential ElectionRuptureUs Presidential Author:David Bennun
“"The New York Times" is reporting correctly that women had accused a presidential candidate of sexual assault. Now that's news on any level. I mean you can't argue that that's not news.” MeanLevelsNew YorkNewsArguingPresidentialCandidatesAssaultAccusedNew York TimesSexual AssaultPresidential Candidate Author:Megyn Kelly
“Donald Trumps' senior advisor said on CNN that the US Presidential election was the ultimate reality TV show! Appeal to those you want to reach!” WantSaidShowsRealityTvsTrumpUltimateElectionAppealsPresidentialTv ShowsSeniorReality TvCnnPresidential ElectionAdvisorsUltimate RealityUs Presidential Author:Martin Sorrell
“I think we were naive during the first two years of the [Barack] Obama Administration because the Republicans didn't fight us on this point during the 2008 Presidential Election. Obama and McCain both ran on a clean energy platform. But now, uncontested lies have eroded hard-won public understanding. So, we have to go back and make the case again.” ThinkingYearsFirstsTwoHardLyingFightingEnergyUnderstandingCasesRepublicanElectionCleanAdministrationBarackPresidentialRanTwo YearsPlatformsNaiveMccainPresidential ElectionClean Energy Author:Van Jones
“In 2016 we are faced with a particularly bizarre and unappetizing choice as regards the two main political parties' presidential candidates, in my opinion.” TwoPoliticalChoicesPartyOpinionRegardPresidentialCandidatesBizarrePolitical PartiesPresidential Candidate Author:Viggo Mortensen
“Here you have the Republican Party, and they had, what, 16, 15 candidates seek the Republican nomination? And Donald Trump won it. And they have been enraged actually since day one when Trump announced, and his statement did not result in a Trump implosion, and then future Trump statements and appearances did not result in a Trump implosion. But the candidates that the Republican Party...They thought they had the best presidential field ever, and they hated and resented Trump for that.” Has BeensResultsPartyFieldsTrumpRepublicanAppearanceStatementsHatedPresidentialCandidatesRepublican PartyNominations Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I keep reading that Donald Trump is the most pro-LGBT GOP presidential nominee of all time - and I actually think that's true.” ThinkingReadingTrumpAll TimePresidentialLgbtGop Author:Steven Petrow
“I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election if I win. I would also reserve my right to contest or file a legal challenge in the case of a questionable result.” IfsWinningChallengesResultsAcceptingCasesElectionPresidentialReservesContestsHistoricFilesQuestionablePresidential Election Author:Donald Trump
“Whether or not you agree with Bernie Sanders' version of socialism, it is enormously significant that, for the first time in US history, a presidential candidates who calls himself a socialist has had an actual shot at winning the presidential election. And to his credit, he has not backed down from the label.” FirstsWinningShotsFirst TimeElectionAgreeCreditSignificantSocialismVersionsLabelsPresidentialCandidatesSocialistUs HistoryPresidential ElectionPresidential Candidate Author:Kshama Sawant
“What is happening to Donald Trump in terms of the way he's being reported on and cast with the media is the way every Republican presidential candidate has been treated in my life.” WayHas BeensTermMediaTrumpRepublicanHappeningsCastsTreatedPresidentialCandidatesPresidential Candidate Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The two majority candidates right now, the Democratic and Republican candidates,[Donald] Trump and [Hillary] Clinton, are the most disliked and untrusted Presidential candidates in our history with more than majority disapproval.” TwoTrumpRepublicanRight NowMajorityDemocraticClintonPresidentialCandidatesPresidential CandidateDisapproval Author:Jill Stein
“I just want to note that 43 million young people in debt is enough to win a three-way Presidential race.” PeopleWayWantEnoughYoungThreeWinningRaceMillionsNotesDebtPresidentialThree Ways Author:Jill Stein
“It's time to override this fraud being committed on the American voter of the two-party tyranny of this private corporation of the Commission on Presidential Debates.” TwoPartyCommittedDebateTyrannyCorporationsPresidentialVotersFraudAmerican VotersPresidential Debate Author:Jill Stein
“Democracy needs to start with an open Presidential debate. So come on out and let's take back the promise of our democracy.” NeedsDemocracyPromiseDebatePresidentialPresidential Debate Author:Jill Stein
“Let me just say that anything that I say about what's going on at Justice is pure speculation. Obviously, you know, I'm just going based on my experience as the attorney general, but, yeah, surprised because typically you don't talk about investigations. And it kind of surprised me that that letter went out, and I suppose that the reason for it is because we're in the middle of a presidential campaign. But nonetheless, I think it would be contrary to typical protocol.” ThinkingKnowsKindReasonWould BeJusticeMiddlePureLettersLet MeYeahContraryCampaignsPresidentialInvestigationTypicalSpeculationAttorneyProtocolPresidential Campaign Author:Alberto Gonzales
“I'm arrogant enough to tell you that I'm smart enough to have scored higher on my Scholastic Aptitude Test than any US president whose SAT score has been made public. I even scored higher than ex-presidential candidate Al Gore, whose SAT score was so high, it was deemed as potentially off-putting to voters.” Has BeensMadeEnoughPresidentHigherSmartTestsPresidentialSatCandidatesScoreAlsVotersArrogantExesGoreAptitudePresidential CandidateUs PresidentScholasticsSat ScoresAptitude Test Author:Jim Goad
“I was able to adjust initially by plunging right into the book and the Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University. And it turns out that there is a good way to make a living by giving speeches.” WayGivingBookAbleTurnsSpeechUniversityPresidentialSouthernGood WayMethodists Author:George W. Bush
“Yes, the presidential race is very close, and some public polls show it getting closer as we go into the final hours, but in one sense it's actually been stable for months.” ShowsHoursRaceMonthsFinalsPresidentialStablePolls Author:Mara Liasson
“Donald Trump is a candidate who divided his own party more deeply than any presidential candidate has before.” PartyTrumpPresidentialCandidatesDividedPresidential Candidate Author:Mara Liasson
“Republican candidates have won whites with college degrees in every presidential election since polling began.” CollegeRepublicanDegreesElectionPresidentialCandidatesPresidential ElectionCollege DegreePolling Author:Mara Liasson
“Democrats came into the race with a structural advantage in the Electoral College. Their big blue wall - the states that Democrats have won in the past six presidential elections - gave [Hillary] Clinton a strong base to build on.” StatesBigsPastStrongRaceCollegeWallSixAdvantageElectionBlueClintonDemocratPresidentialPresidential ElectionElectoral College Author:Mara Liasson
“Senate races have tightened along with the presidential race. Watch to see how many Republican Senate candidates outperform Donald Trump - and how many hang on to their seats in states that he loses.” StatesLosesRaceWatchesTrumpRepublicanPresidentialCandidatesSeatsSenate Author:Mara Liasson
“The fact remains that we're running a presidential campaign. And we're doing that through appearances like today, fund-raisers like today, where Donald Trump was in Texas, raising money, not just for the trump campaign, but, drumroll, please, for the RNC and the Republican committees, which benefits all these candidates that Paul Ryan is trying to protect.” TryingFactsRunningTodayTrumpPleaseRepublicanProtectBenefitsRemainsAppearanceCampaignsPresidentialCandidatesFundTexasCommitteesPresidential CampaignRaising Money Author:Kellyanne Conway
“We are seeing Republicans uniting behind this [presidential] campaign [2016].” BehindsSeeingRepublicanCampaignsPresidentialUnitingPresidential Campaign Author:Ted Cruz
“want to get to the substance of the book ["Thank You for Being Late"], but it is so closely connected to this presidential election. And you also wrote a series of columns during the campaign, very tough on Donald Trump. You called him a disgusting human being and now you're calling the election a moral 9/11 only 9/11 was done to us from the outside. We did this to ourselves.” WantHumansBookDoneHuman BeingsMoralTrumpCallingLateToughElectionSeriesConnectedCampaignsSubstancePresidentialDisgustingColumnsPresidential Election Author:George Stephanopoulos
“Donald Trump is not a normal presidential candidate.” TrumpNormalPresidentialCandidatesPresidential Candidate Author:Hillary Clinton
“I would say it's more important who the treasury secretary is than who the vice president is. If you want to have a debate here, I'd like a debate between potential treasury secretaries than the vice presidential debate.” IfsWantImportantPresidentVicesDebatePresidentialSecretaryVice PresidentTreasuryPresidential Debate Author:Warren Buffett
“[Donald] Trump's behavior during the presidential campaign was often erratic, seemingly based on discernable personality traits, including narcissism, arrogance, impulsiveness, and a lack of predictability.” PersonalityTrumpBehaviorIncludingCampaignsPresidentialArroganceTraitsNarcissismPredictabilityPresidential CampaignPersonality TraitsErratic Author:David Krieger
“Every presidential spouse is going to be subjected to scrutiny.” PresidentialSpouseScrutiny Author:Karl Rove
“There's nothing in the 14th Amendment that says if you are born to a mother who is a citizen that you're automatically a citizen. It isn't there. Even some of our presidential candidates think that it is.” IfsThinkingMotherBornCitizensPresidentialCandidatesAmendmentsPresidential Candidate14th Amendment Author:Rush Limbaugh
“As is always the case with American presidential elections, nobody's talking about the fact that the empire will be ruled from Washington, and foreign policy has just not been on anybody's screen, unfortunately.” FactsTalkingCasesPolicyElectionScreensPresidentialEmpiresForeign PolicyPresidential ElectionAmerican President Author:Rashid Khalidi