Quotes tagged ‘Election’

“Abbie Hoffman: In 1861, Lincoln said in his inaugural address: 'When the people shall grow weary of their constitutional right to amend their government, they shall exert their revolutionary right to dismember and overthrow that government.' And if Lincoln had given that speech in Lincoln Park last…”

— Aaron Sorkin, Abbie Hoffman, Sacha Baron Cohen, imdb.com

“Trump’s pressure campaign on Raffensperger is the latest example of his attempt to subvert the outcome of the Nov. 3 election through personal outreach to state Republican officials.”

— Amy Gardner, washingtonpost.com

“Enter Esther Perel, an author and psychotherapist with the power to help mend relationships. 'We have a screaming match,' she says, 'but we have a foundation underneath that.'”

— Kara Swisher, New York Times, nytimes.com

“In this, an election year, she urged women to take the future into their hands: 'Don’t forget we are the largest voting body in this country. Let’s make it look more like us.'”

— Emma Specter, Vogue, vogue.com

“I realize Michael Bloomberg said in March that he will not run for president in 2020 (though he might be reconsidering that position, according to anonymous sources). I respect his comment — but our political landscape has changed profoundly since he made it. There is ferment on the left and the rig…”

— Judy Sheindin, usatoday.com

“Politics isn't about policies, a candidate is elected on a story.”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, Payton Hobart, Ben Platt, imdb.com

“If the 2020 election were held today and it were solely a referendum on Trump, Texas would be a toss-up.”

— Harry Enten, CNN, cnn.com

“You tell the mayor he has a very simple choice. Lose the election, or fund my vision.”

— Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Baz Luhrmann, Jacqui Rivera, Francisco 'Papa Fuerte' Cruz, Jimmy Smits, imdb.com

“It's this election has just been brutal on me. My eyelids are seriously starting to look like Keith Richards's ball sack.”

— sean Grey, Will Smith, Georgia Pritchett, Selina Meyer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, imdb.com

“You win the election, you think it’s over. It’s never over.”

— Erica Shelton Kodish, Alicia Florrick, Julianna Margulies, imdb.com

“Mr. Burns: Ironic, isn't it Smithers. This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you! Smithers: You are noble and poetic in defeat, sir.”

— Sam Simon, John Swartzwelder, Waylon Smithers, Harry Shearer, imdb.com

“Treat every election like it’s the last one you’ll ever have.”

— David Hogg, twitter.com

“Your vote matters. If it didn’t, why would some people keep trying to take it away?”

— John Lewis, twitter.com

“Sexism is when the woman running for President is deemed untrustworthy when she releases decades of tax returns, her health records, & mad state dept. emails yet the man running against her wins after he releases no tax returns and a bogus health letter. Women understand this.”

— Zerlina Maxwell, twitter.com

“The United States brags about its political system, but the [American] President says one thing during the election; something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.”

— Deng Xiaoping, amazon.com

“I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.”

— Benjamin Harrison, en.wikiquote.org

“Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.”

— Buckminster Fuller, amazon.com

“What costs hundreds of millions of dollars but is worthless? 2nd place in a presidential election.”

— chlorine_cowboy, reddit.com

“The man who wrote the anti-trans bathroom bill just lost the election to a trans woman. Let that sink in.”

— Laura Bassett, twitter.com

“No man has ever been President of the United States more than two terms. You know that; everyone knows that. But when I get in, I'm going to abolish the Electoral College, have universal suffrage, and I defy any sonofabitch to get me out under four terms.”

— Huey Long, en.wikiquote.org