“Democrats, Republicans, independents, people across America. If you don't vote for me, I still want to be your president.” PeopleIfsWantStillsAmericaPresidentRepublicanVoteDemocratVote For Me Author:Hillary Clinton
“The Senate is the big prize. Until recently, Democrats felt confident they could get the four seats they needed to take back control if [Hillary] Clinton is in the White House and Vice President Tim Kaine held the tie-breaking vote.” IfsBigsHouseFeltPresidentWhiteFourNeededVoteClintonDemocratVicesTiesSeatsPrizeWhite HouseSenateVice President Author:Mara Liasson
“Paul Ryan is speaker of the house and that - that is up to members of the caucus. Donald Trump is not running for a congressman from Manhattan where he would actually vote on the speaker. But I appreciate the good wishes that we're actually going to be the next president of the United States and that we'll have to work with the speaker.” StatesRunningNextHouseWishPresidentUnitedUnited StatesTrumpMembersAppreciateVoteSpeakersManhattanCongressmanCaucusGood Wishes Author:Kellyanne Conway
“All I want to say is that anybody, well, from the Democratic side of the fence who thinks that - who's terrified of the possibility of President [Donald] Trump better vote, better get active, better get involved, because this man has got some momentum and we better be ready for the fact that he might be leading the Republican ticket.” ThinkingMenWantWellsFactsMightSidesPresidentPossibilityReadyTrumpInvolvedRepublicanVoteDemocraticActiveTicketsTerrifiedFenceGet InvolvedMomentum Author:Keith Ellison
“It will be an unusual dynamic [in Congress]. It won't be like the rallying behind President [Barack] Obama in 2009 or behind President [George W.] Bush, even at the beginning of his presidency, or even [Bill] Clinton in '93, when he got his budget through on a partisan vote.” PresidentBehindsVoteBillsClintonCongressBarackBudgetsUnusualPresidencyPartisansPresident Barack ObamaPresident George W BushRallying Author:William Kristol
“When the president of the United States goes out at, you know, 8:00 o'clock in the morning and then his own party votes gets him 2 to 1 in the house, you know that somehow a message isn't getting out. It takes real leadership.” KnowsRealStatesHousePresidentUnitedPartyMorningUnited StatesMessagesVoteClock Author:Warren Buffett
“We have two responsibilities when it comes to an election as citizens. We have the responsibility to vote and then to honor that vote, even if we disagree with it. That doesn't mean that we blindly follow. It just means we can't afford the president to fail.” IfsMeanTwoPresidentResponsibilityFailingCitizensHonorVoteElectionDisagree Author:Glenn Beck
“I don't regret my votes for President Obama by any stretch of the imagination.” PresidentImaginationRegretVotePresident ObamaDon't Regret Author:Julianne Malveaux
“As I write in the book, I do not regret either of my votes for President [Barack] Obama, nor my support of him when he ran for the Senate before that. I get excited as I ever did when I see that black man on Air Force One. But I won't settle for symbolism, and our President's record should be open for analysis.” MenShouldWritingBookForceBlackPresidentSupportRecordsAirRegretVoteExcitedBarackSettlingRanAnalysisSenateSymbolismPresident Barack ObamaAir ForceAir Force One Author:Julianne Malveaux
“I'm actually cautiously optimistic that Donald Trump will be so bad that he will force America to wake up and realise that forcing America to vote for right wing Republicans is always a terrible idea. It's never been a good idea, but what happened here is you have a president like Obama who gives you eight years of relative stability and prosperity, and people forget that Republicans are just terrible, not just for the country but for the planet. Maybe this is America's equivalent of bottoming out, like a crystal meth addict going on one last big run before they have to get sober.” PeopleGivingYearsIdeasCountryBigsRunningLastsAmericaForcePresidentForgetHappenedPlanetsTrumpTerribleRepublicanVoteWake UpWingsProsperityEightOptimisticRealisingStabilityRelativeGood IdeasSoberAddictCrystalsRight WingCrystal Meth Author:Moby
“[Donald] Trump appears to be searching for an enemy. Is it flag burners, recounts, the press, the popular vote? Trump has gone after them all at times, using wild experience theories even as president-elect to do it.” PresidentEnemyGoneTheoryTrumpVotePressesFlagsPopular Vote Author:Chuck Todd
“President-elect Donald Trump is not happy that he lost the popular vote. And this stat is probably not going to make him feel any better.” FeelsLostPresidentTrumpVoteNot HappyPopular Vote Author:Chuck Todd
“Since 1900, only three other [than Donald Trump ] presidents have won the White House with a smaller percentage of the popular vote. Woodrow Wilson in 1912, Richard Nixon in 1968, and Bill Clinton in 1992.” ThreeHousePresidentWhiteTrumpVoteBillsClintonWhite HousePercentagesWilsonPopular Vote 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
“The popular choice, by more than 2 million votes, is a completely qualified candidate for president.” ChoicesPresidentMillionsVoteCandidatesQualified Author:Lawrence Lessig
“The principle, that should be a fundamental principle in our democracy, the principle of "one person, one vote," says that the vote of every American should count equally. And if it does, Hillary Clinton should be the president of the United States.” IfsShouldPersonsDoeStatesPresidentUnitedPrinciplesUnited StatesDemocracyVoteFundamentalsClintonFundamental Principles Author:Lawrence Lessig
“If the popular vote elected the president today, two states - California and New York - would be all you would need. And that means campaigns would occur only there and campaigns would focus only on issues relevant to those people in those states.” PeopleIfsNeedsMeanTwoStatesWould BeTodayPresidentIssuesFocusNew YorkVoteCampaignsCaliforniaRelevantPopular Vote Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I live in a country where, at least by my sense of arithmetic and justice, Al Gore should have been president, not George W. Bush. To this day, John Kerry probably thinks he won Ohio in 2004 because he had suspicions about the vote in Ohio. And, by the way, Richard Nixon had suspicions in 1960 about the vote in Chicago when he lost to JFK.” ThinkingWayShouldHas BeensCountryLostPresidentJusticeShould HaveVoteThis DayAlsChicagoSuspicion1960sShould Have BeenGoreOhioArithmeticJohn Kerry Author:David Remnick
“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. And those who didn't vote for him have to recognize that that's how democracy works. That's how this system operates.” ThinkingWellsStatesNextPresidentUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyTeamPolicyTrumpVote Author:Barack Obama
“I think that Donald Trump successfully mobilized a big chunk of America to vote for him and he's going to win. He has won. He's going to be the next president and regardless of what experience or assumptions he brought to the office, this office has a way of waking you up and those - those aspects of his positions or predispositions that don't match up with reality, he will find shaken up pretty quick because reality has a way of asserting itself.” ThinkingWayBigsRealityAmericaNextWinningPresidentPositionTrumpOfficeAspectVoteAssumptionWakingChunks Author:Barack Obama
“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
“We have a whole lot of the president-elect's nominees that have not filled out their ethics disclosures. I can never remember a time when anybody was voted on for a Cabinet position who hadn't completed their ethics report, and certainly nobody should be allowed to vote until that's done.” ShouldI CanDoneWholeRememberPresidentPositionEthicsVoteFilledReportsCabinetsDisclosureFilled Out Author:Patrick Leahy
“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 just released an op-ed in the "Washington Post" that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social security card, a picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.” PeopleNeedsHappensWould BeOrderSocialPresidentSpecialSecurityVoteCardsPostsExecutivesProvidingSocial SecurityExecutive Orders Author:Al Sharpton
“The Constitution says the President shall nominate, not maybe he could, maybe he can't, he shall nominate. Implicit in the Constitution is that the Senate will act on its constitutional responsibility and give its advice and consent. No one is required to vote for the nominee.” GivingPresidentResponsibilityAdviceVoteConstitutionSenateConsentImplicit Author:Joe Biden
“Hillary Clinton should be president not because she's a woman but because she's the best for the job. I don't think that any woman should be asked to vote for someone because she's a woman, and that - because the candidate is a woman.” ThinkingShouldJobsPresidentVoteClintonCandidates Author:Nancy Pelosi
“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
“One very difficult decision was deciding to vote against the appropriations bill for the war. I had consistently said that I wanted to make sure our troops got the adequate and training in the war effort, despite the fact that I opposed the war at the point that the president decided to double down and send more troops. I had to vote against funding as a way of bringing it back to the table. That was a difficult decision for me.” WaySaidWarFactsWantedDifficultPresidentDecisionEffortTrainingDecidedVoteDown AndTablesBillsDespiteTroopsConsistentlyAdequateFundingOur TroopsAppropriationDifficult Decisions Author:Barack Obama
“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
“"First female president." That's it, and that's nowhere near, by the way, as powerful or penetrating as the first African-American president. I mean, women, yeah, I mean, make the case that they've been victimized. But they can't put themselves in the same shoes as slavery's legacy for example. Now, women might try to make the case. Hillary [Clinton] might try to make the case about not being ought to be able to vote, but it ain't gonna fly.” WayTryingFirstsMeanMightAblePresidentPowerfulCasesExampleOughtFemaleVoteYeahSlaveryClintonShoesAfrican AmericanLegacyAmerican PresidentFemale President Author:Rush Limbaugh
“What I'm thinking about are the millions of people, many of whom write me very personal letters :"Dear Mr. President: I did not vote for you. I was against Obamacare. And then my son who didn't have health insurance signed up and we just found out that he had an illness. And thankfully he's now covered, otherwise he might not have gotten treatment and I might have lost my house."” PeopleThinkingWritingMightFoundHouseLostPresidentMillionsSonLettersVoteDearIllnessTreatmentMy SonCoveredObamacare Author:Barack Obama
“How can you feel like an actual member of society casting a vote for a president when in a professional interview you said that farts make you laugh? And you're a professional in comedy? But then, have you ever seen a video of a small dog that farts? Welp. I don't need to explain that anymore. If you can't see the humor in that, good luck being a CEO somewhere where I'm not going to understand you. It's a harmless thing to laugh at. It's humor that's not at the expense of someone else. And it's silly. It's juvenile.” PresidentLaughingComedyDogVoteLuckSillyCeoGood LuckFartJuvenile Author:Kyle Kinane
“When Donald Trump campaigned for president, he told the American people that he would be a different type of Republican, that he would take on the political and economic establishment, that he would stand up for working people, that he understood the pain that families all across this country were experiencing. Well, sadly, it was just cheap and dishonest campaign rhetoric that was meant to get votes, nothing more than that.” PeopleDifferentCountryPainPoliticalPresidentEconomicRepublicanVoteRhetoric Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“To all those in the sound of my voice who share our values, who know that we can be a stronger America at home and abroad, a more prosperous America - that we can revive America the way that Ronald Reagan did in the 1980s, and that we can add justices to the Supreme Court who honor and uphold our Constitution - now is the time to come out, to take the time to cast that vote and make Donald Trump the president of the United States.” HomeValuesPresidentJusticeShareHonorVoteConstitutionStrongerSupreme CourtProsperous Author:Mike Pence
“If you want real change, if you want a stronger America at home and abroad and an America that cherishes our highest ideals, head out the door right now and go cast your vote for Trump, the next president of the United States, and we will make America great again.” RealHomePresidentVoteStrongerCherish Author:Mike Pence
“The President doesn't just appoint the Secretary of State, he appoints the Secretary of State, and then the Congress votes. And if the Congress approves that person, that person becomes Secretary of State.” PresidentVoteSecretary Author:Josh Marshall
“The Democrats are angry, and they're out of their minds. You know, we're seeing in the Senate, the Senate Democrats objecting to every single thing. They're boycotting committee meetings. They're refusing to show up. They're foaming at the mouth, practically. And really, you know, where their anger is directed, it's not at Republicans. Their anger is directed at the American people. They're angry with the voters, how dare you vote in a Republican president, Donald Trump, a Republican Senate, a Republican House.” PeopleMindHousePresidentRepublicanVoteMeetingsDemocratDare Author:Ted Cruz
“Other than they may or may not have discussed the relative merits of the Electoral College vs. the popular vote, what I am told by sources close to Al Gore is that this was at the instigation of Ivanka Trump, that she reached out to the former vice president recently to discuss climate change, and that he was really impressed with the way she was thinking about the issue, framing the issue.” ThinkingPresidentCollegeVoteClimate ChangeRelativeVice PresidentFraming Author:Karen Tumulty
“I understand the politics of the situation, I think that many Republican members of the senate believe that,get out the vote move. They can indicate that they're strong for their base. But the Constitution's pretty clear. The president Donald Trump has to nominate someone. The senate can choose to disapprove. There's nothing in their Constitution that says the grounds upon which they must vote. But to refuse even to meet with the individual, or to have the process go forward, that's just pure politics.” ThinkingBelieveMovingIndividualStrongPresidentSituationRepublicanVoteConstitution Author:Martha Minow
“Someone asked me "what do you think of Donald Trump?" And I said, "I would rather vote for Hillary Clinton in jail." If she gets convicted, I'll vote for her for president.” ThinkingPresidentVoteClinton Author:Albert Brooks
“Here's a president who gets 47 or 48 percent of the vote and takes 100 percent of the power, as if he had a mandate. He snuck into the presidency with the aid of political cronies, his father's having appointed members of the Supreme Court, his brother governor of Florida. And then he takes total control. And this is a president who seems to react to everything with force. Now we've had two wars. We've killed a lot of people. For anybody who is interested in not being a warlike nation anymore, and becoming a nation respected in the world, it becomes important to defeat Bush.” PeopleWorldImportantWarPoliticalPresidentBrotherVoteDefeatAidsSupreme Court Author:Howard Zinn
“The American people have elected their president and my vote doesn't count in the U.S.” PeoplePresidentVote Author:Cecilia Malmstrom
“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
“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
“I've worked with a variety of presidents over the years on both sides of the aisle and congressmen and senators, so I'm not into trying to demonize anybody. It used to be that people would fight like hell on the floor of the house and they'd go have a beer together. Now it's like you're radioactive if you talk to the other side, which keeps us from getting anything done. I'm an independent personally, and I vote for who I believe will make the biggest difference.” PeopleTryingBelieveDoneTogetherFightingHouseI BelievePresidentHellLike YouVoteIndependentVarietyBeer Author:Marc Benioff
“What if we had a culture that prevented these presidents from being courageous? And I worry now that we have a system that makes it very hard to choose people who would make the same courage choice as our great presidents. And I guess what I would say is, in this next campaign, take a look at the people who are running. If they don't remind you of the great presidents, do not vote for them.” PeopleRunningChoicesCulturePresidentWorryVoteCourageousWhat If Author:Michael Beschloss
“I want self-determination. If that means having a constitutional monarchy as the first step, fine. But, in the end, people in Bahrain should have the right to vote and choose their president. A single family should not be allowed to rule on its own.” PeopleMeanPresidentVoteMonarchyRight To Vote Author:Zainab al-Khawaja
“We have a huge struggle for our sense of what a democracy is. We're not living in reality when we think we have some sort of democracy. We're really on the edge. We have two presidents who lost the popular vote but won the election. This is not working.” ThinkingRealityPresidentStruggleDemocracyVoteElection Author:Louise Erdrich
“Woodrow Wilson was the president of the United States in 1920, and he was made a fool of - his wife almost divorced him - because he wouldn't support women's suffrage. He was president during World War I, but I look back upon him as a coward. Because he knew the right thing to do - the right of women to vote was an idea whose time had come a long time before then, when a lot of women were put into prison or persecuted because they fought for it.” WorldLongWarPresidentSupportWifeFoolVotePrisonWar Of The WorldsRight ThingCowardWorld War IDivorcedSuffrage Author:Wayne Dyer
“Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.” ShouldDifferentCountryPresidentCommonBalanceVoteVicesTicketsRepresentingVice President Author:Madeleine M. Kunin