Quotes tagged ‘elections’

“Abbie Hoffman: Winning elections, that's the first thing on your wish list? Equality, justice, education, poverty and progress, they're second? Tom Hayden: If you don't win elections, it doesn't matter what's second. And it is astonishing to me that someone still has to explain that to you.”

— Aaron Sorkin, Tom Hayden, Eddie Redmayne, imdb.com

“Stop thinking presidential elections are about the two people whose names are on your ballot. That’s juvenile and naive. Those elections are not about an individual personality, but about structural power. They are about budgets and systems and their architectures, judges and wealth.”

— Charles M. Blow, twitter.com

“I’m just a girl, standing in front of a democratic primary, asking it to be over”

— Sarah Lazarus, twitter.com

“I think that’s the beauty of elections: You can’t hide from who you are. The more honestly and directly you communicate to people why you’re doing this, the way in which you want to serve them, I just think that the better, more informed decision that they can make.”

— Beto O'Rourke, vanityfair.com

“A better future can be a reality. Some parts of the country felt it last night. Some didn’t. But midterm elections weren't our last chance. Change is coming. As this chapter comes to a close, it’s time to double-down and charge ahead.”

— Jenny Kaplan, glamour.com

“We can fix this.”

— Tyler Oakley, youtube.com

“Please, please educate yourself on the candidates running in your state and vote based on who most closely represents your values. For a lot of us, we may never find a candidate or party with whom we agree 100% on every issue, but we have to vote anyway.”

— Taylor Swift, instagram.com

“A mistake that most people make is to assume that the more followers you can recruit, the better. That's true if you are trying to win an election. A vote is a vote regardless of whether the voter is deeply committed or just barely interested enough to get to the polls. But when you're building a re…”

— Ted Kaczynski, theanarchistlibrary.org

“Elections cannot inconvenience me. They ratify my will or I neuter them.”

— W. Earl Brown, Hearst, Gerald McRaney, imdb.com

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

— David Hogg, twitter.com

“Dennis: Okay you want me to read the script? Charlie: Yes. And action. Dennis: I'll read the words you wrote. 'Hello fellow American. This you should vote me. I leave power. Good. Thank you. Thank you. If you vote me, I'm hot.' What? 'Taxes, they'll be lower. Son. The Democratic vote for me is right…”

— Charlie Day, Danny DeVito, Rob McElhenney, Dennis Reynolds, Glenn Howerton, imdb.com

“This time, vote for what you believe in.”

— Paul Wellstone, amazon.com

“If the needle lives long enough, one night the needle will suggest Democrats are poised to win, even as Republicans hold a lead in the tabulated vote. In the end, the Republican candidate will survive as a major urban center doesn’t yield as many votes as the needle imagined. Or alternately, the Rep…”

— Nate Cohn, nytimes.com

“Always a Whig in politics, and generally on the Whig electoral tickets, making active canvasses—I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.”

— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org

“Why will our suffrage be universal? Because all citizens, except those deprived of the franchise by the courts, will have the right to elect and be elected. Why will our suffrage be equal? Because neither differences in property (which still exist to some extent) nor racial or national affiliation w…”

— Joseph Stalin, marxists.org

“We really need to be thinking more closely about who we're electing. Because if we don't, at times of crisis like now, they sit in those offices and they let us and the country down.”

— Heidi N Moore, twitter.com

“Marx grasped this essence of capitalist democracy splendidly when, in analyzing the experience of the Commune, he said that the oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!”

— Vladimir Lenin, marxists.org

“America is indeed a place where all things are possible: that is its greatest promise and, perhaps, its gravest peril.”

— David Remnick, newyorker.com

“For us to have had this opportunity and to be able to make this much change, as much as we wish that we could have gotten everything done, it’s remarkable.”

— Barack Obama, newyorker.com

“George Clooney is a lifelong Democrat and was a prominent supporter of President Obama during the 2008 and 2012 campaigns. He's also been vocal about his support for the party. In 2016, he says he will vote for Hillary Clinton.”

— LIV KELLEHER, stylecaster.com