Avoiding Quote by Angela Merkel

There is a line between scurrilous nonsense and serious discussion that laps over, especially in this day and age when you've got all this…

— Robert Dallek

Don't make election popularity largely a matter of which candidate hires the most creative and effective propagandists. Insist that it be, instead, a running…

— Ron Howard

“told his supporters that the campaign had “pushed this country in the direction of peace,” adding, “If we pushed the day of peace just…

— Scott Farris

As someone who has led his party through two general elections, I have not always been immune from feeling the pressure of electioneering tactics.

— Charles Kennedy

No single solution or actor can deal with the complex and interrelated challenges to electoral integrity arising from manipulated data, hate speech, and fake…

— Kofi Annan

Leaders don't change their positions mid-debate. They welcome scorn from the masses because it creates the opportunity for dialogue.

— Mark Cuban

Part of the problem you have is that you don't have a dialogue between elected officials and their constituents. They've built these barricades, these…

— Elizabeth Emken

“The Mystery of Futile Debate: Why do we engage endlessly in futile political debates? We can argue politics forever, with nary a hint of…

— Guillermo Jimenez

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.

— Rose Kennedy

An election is an opportunity for a new consensus.

— Martin O'Malley

I long ago tired of politicians who never say anything, adhere to their talking points, and avoid all controversy.

— Richard Cohen

A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.

— Jill Lepore