American Elections Quotes

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.

I proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base - those people should be allowed to vote in the American election.

Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.

We need a total ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.

In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans.

Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

I don't care about Donald Trump himself. I care and I worry about the very big base that supports him because this kind of language would have been absolutely nonexistent maybe 15, 20 - by the way, I follow the American elections, and I have never seen someone who is that offensive. I have seen people who are stupid. But stupid and offensive, that's new.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

I think Canadians, by and large, during the American election, every time Donald Trump talked about NAFTA, we felt that he was talking about Mexico. Now, if Donald Trump tears up NAFTA, there is still a Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. And we all assume that we will revert back to that agreement, which is essentially the same as NAFTA except Mexico is no longer at the table. I think, you know, that is what we are hoping for.