71 Electoral Quotes for You to Enjoy

It is rarely the quick fix that goes the farthest. So don't get tempted by political cycles and the lure of electoral wins. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Political Rarely Tempted Wins Quick Fix Get Goes Electoral Cycles Farthest Lure

It's too bad American electoral races aren't as transparent as NASCAR races. Steve Bullock

Too Bad NASCAR American Races Electoral Transparent

Political boundaries in their most physical terms can make or break an election. The manipulation of electoral districts can make them either 'blue-hot' or 'red-hot' depending on the level of intensity felt in either camp to such shifting ground. Susie Dent

Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers. Theodore White

My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility. Tim Kaine

Anxiety Sense Economic Volatility Means Electoral

President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election. Timothy Noah

It always seemed to me ironic that the McCain campaign kept referring sneeringly to Obama's meager resume - 'a mere community organizer!' - before he entered electoral politics. It was Obama's experience as a community organizer that proved such a killer app when he applied that skill to the Internet. Tina Brown

Politics Me Experience Resume Internet Before Community Killer Entered Obama Seemed He Mere Always Proved Referring Campaign Ironic McCain Skill Electoral App Organizer Applied Kept

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties. Todd Gitlin

Life Politics Me Matter Election Ralph Ralph Nader Say No Difference More Results Could He Between Contemplate Parties Understand Said How Any Anybody Difference Us Electoral Right Two

We are fighting to keep Israel a democracy - not just in terms of its electoral system but also in terms of its values. Tzipi Livni

Democracy Values Fighting System Terms Also Israel Just Electoral Keep

It's true that Americans are less than thrilled with President Obama and congressional Democrats. Their approval ratings are nothing to celebrate. But electoral politics is a zero-sum game. If one side loses, then the other side wins. Success depends on being just slightly less odious than your opponent. Kirsten Powers

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Governments usually end not with a bang but with a whimper, as the Conservatives learned in the 1990s. Support and authority erodes over time until there is a final collapse of support and pivotal electoral shift. John McDonnell

Time Conservatives Final Collapse 1990s Support Over Until Learned Shift Governments End Authority Bang Pivotal Electoral

One of the more important things the Bernie Sanders campaign did is reach people who are political but not electorally political. They’re political in either non-profits or community groups, but didn’t see how important it was to get involved in electoral politics. Zephyr Teachout

I don't think one moment that we should sink to the levels of the Brexiters - the dodgy money, the electoral lawbreaking and the lying - but I do wonder if those of us who remain deeply concerned about the consequences of Brexit are really landing all the blows that we can. Gina Miller

Yes, I believe in parliamentary sovereignty, but irrespective of what the Electoral Commission decides, I am now even more convinced that there must be a people's vote on the Brexit deal, including an option to remain, or remain voters will have good reason to shout foul play. Gina Miller

Good Vote People I Am Will Believe I Believe Must I Believe In Good Reason More Remain Parliamentary Voters Deal Am Yes Option Commission Sovereignty Irrespective Decide Convinced Electoral Shout Brexit Reason Even Including Foul Now Play

Time and again a close election leads to hand-wringing about the need for Electoral College reform; time and again, politicians and parties respond to the college's incentives, and more capacious and unifying majorities are born. Ross Douthat

Time Election College Politicians Respond Born About More Leads Parties Close Reform Again Unifying Electoral Electoral College Incentives Need

American elections should be for Americans. And the idea that we would have foreign nation-states coming into the American electoral process, or the information surrounding an election, is really, really bad. Ben Sasse

Election Bad Would Idea Foreign Coming Surrounding American Information Process Really Elections Should Electoral Electoral Process

The fact that populism is flourishing internationally, far from the Electoral College and Fox News, suggests that Trump's specific faults might actually be propping up American liberalism. Ross Douthat

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So when you hear these lies about how we can’t possibly change our health care system because it would be electoral disaster, kindly remind people that we already have a moral and ethical disaster on our hands. Krystal Ball

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