Democracy Quote by Tracy K. Smith

“he would say impossible, but elections are rife with unexpected events—”

— Malka Ann Older

“It all seemed like an election fable, like many that had been cooked up to confuse the voters about the integrity of the election.”

— Donna Brazile

“This is America. Every vote counts. Sometimes twice, if it helps me get elected.”

— Jarod Kintz

“...I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next to the strange and the…

— John Irving

“Elections were the womb of chaos.”

— Barry Sierer

“It's a sorry little fact that we are often as mysterious to ourselves as we are to others.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“I knew I seemed a fairly unlikely candidate for an adventure into the unknown. And secretly I doubted that I had what it took,…

— Jamie Zeppa

“In politics, the things that do not happen are frequently as significant as those that do.”

— Theodore H. White

“You maybe able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.”

— Donella Meadows

“...You haven't I suppose ever mixed with politicians at close quarters. They're awful...their stupidity is inhuman.”

— Robert Skidelsky

“Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.”

— Peter Prange

“It is to our own detriment that we underestimate the might of small and simple things.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich