Democracy Quote by Harry Enten

In the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, American voters were forced to choose between a liberal Democrat and weak establishment Republicans. Democrats won both times.

— Jerry Falwell, Jr

The 2018 elections gave Democrats a landslide victory in the House and showed that voters are eager if not desperate to hold Trump accountable.

— Karine Jean-Pierre

My study of past elections in which there was a dominant issue other than the economy indicates that whomever is most trusted on that…

— Harry Enten

On any state elections map, the reservations are blue places. Native people are most often progressives, Democrats, and by no means gun-toting vigilantes.

— Louise Erdrich

As a general rule of thumb, Democrats do better in national elections when the year's defining issue is economic fairness, and Republicans do better…

— Rick Perlstein

The Democrats do fine in presidential elections; their problem is they can't get out the vote in the midterm elections.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Riding a wave of anti-establishment and anti-Obama anger, Tea Party candidates knocked off Democrats and Republicans alike.

— Harry Enten

In India, elections happen every year in at least a few states.

— Nirmala Sitharaman

Midterms behave very differently than presidential elections. Midterms, for a federal candidate, often times are a referendum on the president, where in presidential years,…

— Mike Coffman

Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American…

— Hugh Evans

Elections are not a beauty contest. It is all about tolerance.

— Vladimir Franz

While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are just some…

— Paul Gillmor