“By a 2-1 margin, voters believe that Donald Trump would change business as usual in Washington, but by almost as large a margin, they believe that Hillary Clinton would be better in a crisis and less of a decisive margin she cares about people like them.” PeopleBelieveWould BeCareTrumpCrisisClintonVotersUsualMargins Author:Mark Shields
“Pennsylvania might be a parochial state, but it's not a homogeneous state. So, even among just Republican voters, to be able to pull that off, when you have very moderate voters on one side of the state and more conservative in the middle, shows that Donald Trump has very, very broad support.” StatesShowsMightAbleSidesSupportMiddleTrumpRepublicanConservativeBroadsVotersModeratesPennsylvaniaHomogeneous Author:John Brabender
“I think that if he [Donald Trump] does really want to make gains, if he does want to find a path to those voters who are in the middle, then he needs to do different things than just do these rallies.” IfsThinkingWantNeedsDoeDifferentPathMiddleTrumpGainsDifferent ThingsVoters Author:Bill Burton
“[Donald Trump] is still pretty limited in the effect that he can have because he so disqualified himself with such a large number of voters that I don't think that there is an actual a path to victory for him. But he is at least doing a better - engaging in a better strategy than he had previously.” ThinkingStillsNumbersPathEffectsTrumpVictoryStrategyVotersEngagingLarge Numbers Author:Bill Burton
“Something that is interesting about the current polling is that, as you watch Hillary's [Clinton] numbers fluctuate, part of the reason that they are is because the Obama coalition, younger voters, African-American voters, Latino voters, they're not showing up in as large a number for her as they did for President [Barack] Obama.” ReasonPresidentInterestingNumbersWatchesClintonCurrentsBarackAfrican AmericanVotersLatinoCoalitionsPresident Barack ObamaShowing UpPollingAmerican Voters Author:Bill Burton
“I think that, at the end of the day, those voters [Barack Obama voters] are going to join ranks, and it is going to help propel Hillary Clinton to victory.” ThinkingEndsHelpingVictoryClintonBarackThe End Of The DayVoters Author:Bill Burton
“I think they're more looking at these two candidates. It's a band of voters with which neither candidate has very high approval ratings.” ThinkingTwoBandCandidatesVotersApprovalRatingApproval Rating Author:Bill Burton
“[Voters] are trying to make up their mind on who has a better plan for the economy, whose presidency would more positively impact my life?” TryingMindEconomyPlansImpactVotersPresidencyPositively Author:Bill Burton
“So you've got these regular, middle-class voters who don't hate the government as much as the Kochs do. They're Republicans, but they still want government programs. They want Social Security, they want Medicare. They need it.” WantNeedsStillsGovernmentHateSocialClassMiddleSecurityRepublicanProgramMiddle ClassVotersWant MeSocial SecurityMedicareDon't HateGovernment Programs Author:Jane Mayer
“[Donald] Trump comes along and is singing a different song. He says, "I don't need your money; I'm rich enough on my own to run." And he says, "I think we need these programs." And, lo and behold, a lot of Republican voters liked what he said.” ThinkingNeedsSaidDifferentEnoughRunningSongMy OwnRichTrumpRepublicanSingingProgramVoters Author:Jane Mayer
“I think what Obama does more than his amazing speaking ability is he's able to connect with voters. And it's that hope that he brings out in American citizens that we are all hungry for, that people get excited about Sen. Obama.” PeopleThinkingDoeAbleAbilityCitizensExcitedHungryVotersAmerican Citizens Author:John H. McWhorter
“People think that politics just somehow magically organizes itself. It doesn't work that way. You need to assemble these huge coalitions of 535 politicians on Capitol Hill, and tens of thousands of interest groups, and tens of millions of voters, and assemble all those in government to get stuff done.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsDoneGovernmentStuffInterestMillionsGroupsHugePoliticianHillsVotersOrganizeCoalitionsCapitolInterest GroupsCapitol Hill Author:Jonathan Rauch
“To millennials, the Democratic Party is the party of endless debt, it is the party of low-wage jobs, it is the part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, it is the party of the KXL pipeline, which was only stopped because, you know, because we, the voters, you know, just worked our bones - you know, worked ourselves to the bone in order to stop it.” KnowsJobsOrderPartyLowsDemocraticBonesDebtEndlessVotersPartnershipDemocratic PartyTransPacificMillennialsPipeline Author:Jill Stein
“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
“Why should the Democratic and Republican parties be in charge of the debates, especially at a time when the largest block of voters has repudiated the Democratic and Republican parties? Why are they still in charge?” ShouldStillsPartyRepublicanDemocraticDebateBlockVotersRepublican Party 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
“Even the majority of their own voters do not support them. It's something like 25 percent of [Donald] Trump supporters that actually support him. The majority actually hates Hillary [Clinton], and the same is true for Hillary. One-third of her supporters really like her. They dislike fear and hate Donald Trump. What's wrong with this picture?” HateSupportTrumpPercentThirdsMajorityClintonVotersDislikeSupporterLike Her Author:Jill Stein
“All the more reason we need to stand up for our democracy now. If we're going to solve the crises that are barreling down on us, we need democracy, and our democracy needs to start with an open and inclusive debate. That doesn't mean 20 candidates. There are four candidates who are on the ballot for just about every voter in America.” IfsNeedsMeanReasonAmericaDemocracyFourCrisisSolveDebateCandidatesVotersBallots Author:Jill Stein
“It's often considered elitist to say that well maybe voters are uninformed and that they should know more before they cast their votes. It's strange to say that because it's also elitist to say that to run a radio station requires skill or to be a plumber requires skill and background knowledge.” KnowsShouldWellsRunningStrangeSkillsVoteCastsRadioBackgroundsStationsVotersElitistPlumberRadio StationsUninformedBackground Knowledge Author:Jason Brennan
“I'm skeptical about even educating voters as a chance for being successful. You know, when we look at what people retain from high school a year after they've graduated, they've forgotten most everything about history and civics and everything, and I think the main worry here is that because your individual vote counts for so little, you just don't have a strong incentive to invest in the knowledge, to retain the knowledge, to process information in a rational way.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayYearsLooksLittlesSchoolIndividualStrongProcessChanceWorrySuccessfulInformationHigh SchoolVoteForgottenRationalBeing SuccessfulVotersIncentivesSkepticalCivics Author:Jason Brennan
“There was a whole set of issues that the other Republican candidates couldn`t go after Trump that hard on. They had this difficult position where they were trying to knock Trump down while appealing to the voters who liked a lot of the outrageous things about Donald Trump.[Hillary] Clinton is giong to have no such restrictions. She`s going to attack him on a wide variety of fronts and I don`t think Trump is going to deal very well with being attacked in that way.” ThinkingWayTryingWellsHardWholeDifficultDealsIssuesFrontsPositionTrumpRepublicanClintonWideVarietyCandidatesVotersRestrictionOutrageous Author:Josh Barro
“I think that`s a plausible strategy. But I also think there is a case to be made that [Hillary] Clinton actually in some ways is best served by almost ignoring him and the sort of marginal voters that there are to get for Hillary Clinton are voters who already think poorly of Donald Trump and are not sold on her.” ThinkingWayMadeCasesTrumpStrategyClintonVotersPlausible 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
“One of the things that's very troubling to voters about Donald Trump is his erratic behavior, his lack of good temperament to serve as commander in chief.” TrumpBehaviorChiefsVotersTemperamentCommandersCommander In ChiefErratic Author:Robby Mook
“We basically maintain that we can have an America and world that works for all of us, but that we need to really engage, and inform and empower the American voter, who are a bunch of very unhappy campers right now. They deserve to be informed.” WorldNeedsAmericaRight NowDeserveUnhappyBunchEmpoweringVotersAmerican VotersCampers Author:Jill Stein
“You have this big challenge going on within the Democratic Party, and many of them coming into the Greens. So there is the potential for a really profound realignment here. And remember most of this is going on with most voters not having any idea who our campaign is.” IdeasBigsRememberChallengesPartyDemocraticProfoundCampaignsVotersDemocratic PartyBig Challenges Author:Jill Stein
“In an election like this one [in 2016], not only are voters dissatisfied, but where the foundations of our economy, our democracy, our ecosystem, and international war and peace are really crumbling and are really at grave risk for failing in many ways, we need desperately to have an honest public conversation about both the track record of where we've been, what are the critical problems we are facing and what it will take to solve them.” WayNeedsWarProblemEconomyDemocracyRecordsFailingRiskHonestConversationElectionFoundationInternationalTrackSolveCriticalGravesVotersEcosystemsDissatisfiedCrumblingTrack Record Author:Jill Stein
“Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are not themselves members of the middle class, not by a long shot, which means they've searched for other ways to prove to voters that they care about their concerns and understand what middle class workers are going through.” WayMeanLongCareClassMiddleTrumpProveMembersShotsConcernClintonWorkersMiddle ClassVotersLong Shots Author:Tamara Keith
“When it comes to Hillary Clinton, it is really about mobilizing and energizing women voters to turn out to the polls.” TurnsClintonVotersPollsEnergizing Author:Stephanie Schriock
“I think Donald Trump needs to be judged on his own words and his own behavior and the American voter is getting ample evidence on which they can make that judgment.” ThinkingNeedsTrumpBehaviorJudgmentEvidenceVotersJudgedAmerican Voters Author:Tim Kaine
“White working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America.” AmericaPoliticalFeltWhiteClassSensesVotersAbandonedWorking ClassPolitical Leadership Author:Mark Shields
“Republican voters are fed up with Democrats and Democrat policy.” PolicyRepublicanDemocratFedsVotersFed Up Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Republican voters and people all over this country are fed up with what Democrat leftist policies are doing to this country, and they want it stopped, and the only agency that can stop it has been the Republican Party, and they have refused to!” PeopleWantHas BeensCountryPartyPolicyRepublicanDemocratAgencyFedsVotersRepublican PartyFed UpLeftists Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Not getting rid of [Donald] Trump because there's a slew of Republican voters that don't want to get rid of Trump.” WantTrumpRepublicanVoters Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The American people - Republican voters especially - are fed up with the status quo.” PeopleRepublicanFedsVotersStatus QuoFed Up Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Republican Party seems just as eager as the Democrats to pronounce their voters as extreme kooks.” SeemsPartyRepublicanDemocratExtremesVotersRepublican Party Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Every person of any rank in the left, from voter on up to cabinet member to elected official in the Democrat Party, has contempt. We [Republicans] are the number one enemy. And they will put aside whatever differences they have.” PersonsLeftDifferencesPartyNumbersEnemyRepublicanMembersDemocratOfficialsVotersContemptCabinetsElected Officials Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Hillary [Clinton] wins and the Republicans are gonna quickly be irrelevant. She's gonna get her Supreme Court nominee. She's gonna open the borders. The country is going to be flooded with unregistered Democrat voters, that are gonna end up voting anyway, to go along with the dead who vote.” EndsCountryWinningRepublicanVoteCourtClintonDemocratSupremeBordersVotingVotersSupreme CourtIrrelevant Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Nearly two and a half million people die every year that are on the voter rolls. So it takes time to get dead people off the voter rolls.” PeopleYearsTwoDiesHalfMillionsVotersTake TimeDead PeopleIt Takes Time Author:Kellyanne Conway
“The 20th of March in 1964, I went before the Secretary of State to qualify to run as an official candidate for Congress from the 2nd Congressional District, and it was easier for me to qualify to run than it was for me to pass the literacy test to be a registered voter. And we had four people to qualify and run in the June primary election be we didn't have enough Negroes registered in Mississippi.” PeopleStatesEnoughRunningFourEasierTestsElectionCongressPrimariesOfficialsCandidatesMarchVotersSecretaryLiteracyJuneMississippi Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“I think there are a good many Donald Trump voters who are sick of government as it is practiced in America and genuinely want to blow up the system and see what happens. They are stupid - or at least unwise - but not necessarily racist.” ThinkingWantGovernmentHappensAmericaStupidTrumpSickBlowRacistGood ManVotersUnwise Author:Gene Weingarten
“The largest bloc of voters now has divorced the Democratic and Republican parties, which are now minority parties and the plurality of voters now are independent. They're looking for something else.” PartyRepublicanIndependentDemocraticMinoritiesVotersRepublican PartyDivorced 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
“We the voters demand the right to be in charge here, to be informed, to be empowered.” DemandVotersEmpowered Author:Jill Stein
“Because Ajamu Baraka speaks in the language of his community, and makes no bones about it, he really invites in a whole new demographic of voters who have been locked out? - African-American and black and brown people and indigenous people? - who have felt like this system has no place for them. And he is unapologetic about standing up for the rights of the oppressed people and against colonialism and against imperialism.” PeopleHas BeensWholeSpeakLanguageFeltBlackCommunityRightsStandingBonesAfrican AmericanBrownVotersInvitesLockedColonialismOppressedImperialismIndigenousDemographicsIndigenous PeopleUnapologetic Author:Jill Stein
“You see that gap is exactly how they can marginalize and exclude people from giving the voters more voices and choices.” PeopleGivingChoicesVoiceGapsVoters Author:Ralph Nader
“I don't see anything that could happen that could turn Never Trumpers into Trumper voters. They're two dug in on the whole concept that Trump is not even a human being in the realm of politics. That Trump is just the worst guy ever to want to be in politics. He's just repulsive, he's repugnant, he's crass, he's all these things.” WantHumansTwoWholeHappensGuyTurnsHuman BeingsWorstTrumpConceptsRealmsVotersCrass Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Bloomberg TVThe one thing I think is likely to happen under either candidate is massive fiscal stimulus. You have so many voters in Western Europe and North America who've had no real income growth for over 10 years, and they are, in the words of Howard Beale, "Mad as hell and not going to take it anymore."” ThinkingYearsRealHappensAmericaGrowthHellOne ThingEuropeMadWesternIncomeCandidatesMassiveVotersStimulusNorth AmericaWestern Europe Author:Gary Shilling
“I will support whoever is nominated and named by the party. I, at this time, don't plan to get involved in the contest and let it go forward. I had my own contest, it didn't result in victory, and I will let voters decide what will happen. But I will support the Republican candidate.” HappensMy OwnResultsPartySupportPlansVictoryInvolvedRepublicanCandidatesVotersContestsGet InvolvedLet It Go Author:Marco Rubio