A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Looks are just something on the surface. I think the electorate is more discerning than that. They want to know your stand… — Nicole Seah Copy Share Image
It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
In Utah, where the states' Mormon GOP electorate is especially unfavorable to [Donald] Trump. — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Brexit isn't just about leaving the E.U. It's also about rebuilding trust with the electorate. — Nicky Morgan Copy Share Image
Democratic Party is a party that's just out of touch with who the electorate is and who Americans are. — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. — Andrew Napolitano Copy Share Image
Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes. — Don Aitkin Copy Share Image
The only time we create any kind of substantive change is when we reach out to a disaffected electorate and inspire and… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
I would rather enlighten the electorate so that when it's time for them to put somebody in Congress, it will be self-evident… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
In America, we have a two-party system, and the American Constitution is a piece of brilliance, but they did not know when… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When it comes to gay marriage, the electorate can be broken into three basic groups: a relatively small core of committed opponents;… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
There was only one punch. Tony Blair rang me and he said 'Are you OK?' and I said 'Yes', and he said… — John Prescott Copy Share Image
As so often, the ordinary rank and file of the electorate have seen a truth, an important fact, which has escaped so… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Romney is a classic case of re-invention. As governor of Massachusetts, he supported government-sponsored healthcare, was sympathetic to gay rights, and opposed… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
We have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys to heart of our own accord. And… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation… — Lyn Nofziger Copy Share Image
The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
In 2012, African-Americans were 13 percent of the electorate, and 93 percent of them voted for [Barack] Obama. — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
I think FoxNews ratings are a reliable guide to the attitudes of the American electorate. — Reese Schonfeld Copy Share Image
A large plurality of the Trump electorate believed the definition of 'conservative' was simply 'Not Hillary.' — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
The electorate is bored of talking about the past. They are much more interested in the future. — Layla Moran Copy Share Image
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
There may be a sense in the electorate, especially among independents that President Obama has overreached in some ways. — Michael Fullilove Copy Share Image
I believe in operating in the big middle of the electorate and not being to the far right or the far left.… — Sam Reed Copy Share Image
Screaming 'you're wrong' at the electorate is not a good strategy for a party seeking to win back its trust. — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image